caring for your physical & spiritual heart

self discovery

The Heart Matters program will lead you to discover ways you can shift your life choices to create subtle, pleasant, and effective change, with the ultimate goal of enjoying radiant health and well-being. Robin’s holistic approach pays close attention to the connection between your body, mind, and spirit while incorporating science-based behavior change. How you feel about yourself, what you eat, how you think, your familiar self-talk patterns, your attitude toward stress and chaos, and how you play all contribute to your health.

challenges revealed, opportunities supported

These choices, whether conscious or not, can also reveal challenges that might impede your success in living a healthy life. Robin’s program allows a safe, guided, compassionately supported opportunity to explore personal change and work through your unique challenges. She deeply believes that we all have the capacity to change. She has designed this program to help you do just that.

initial session

comprehensive assessment

Robin will complete with you a straightforward questionnaire about your health to include the status of your nutrition choices, physical activity routine, occupation, stress levels and responses, coping mechanisms, support systems, free time and relaxation activities, and any previous efforts you have made toward enhancing your health. In addition, she may suggest optional lab tests that would be ordered in collaboration with your primary care physician. These tests would include a chemistry panel, a lipid panel, and a C-reactive protein level. After a thorough review, she will assess your behavior change readiness and begin to customize your lifestyle management program.

health vision identified

Your first in-person session will include additional assessments of your aerobic fitness, body mass index, blood pressure, lung capacity and post meal glucose level. Robin will then discuss these results with you, identify change opportunities, and help you create your personal Health Vision. She will guide you to set realistic, measurable goals that will support your success. You will start with a long term, three-month goal-built from your Health Vision—then create daily and weekly goals that will lead you towards successful attainment of your long-term goal. Robin will counsel you in the components of safe and effective exercise, examine key nutrition concepts and introduce you to the very pleasant and integral concept of self-soothing that results in a healthful relaxation response. “The dynamic process of behavior change becomes a reality when a client begins to identify his health vision, from which we will create realistic daily and weekly goals that allow for ongoing success and forward movement. Optimal lifestyle management is a long term commitment that is within reach-I believe that my expertise will provide the right direction.” —Robin

continual interaction

weekly Skype or phone sessions

Robin will encourage the use of a computer based Skype program that will allow visual and voice contact-basically, a private televised phone call. In weekly sessions, she will review your progress towards the last week’s goals, reinforcing your successes and finding solutions for what you may have found challenging. Goals will be reviewed, and changed if necessary, for the following week. As each smaller goal becomes an accomplished, consistent behavior, you will gain confidence, satisfaction, and a sense of forward movement that will lead you to further successes. Robin will provide ongoing education as needed regarding nutrition, exercise, and your success with the relaxation response.

unlimited e-mail contact

Your optimal lifestyle management program privileges include unlimited email access to Robin for guidance and support.

ongoing tracking systems

You will have the option of using tracking systems for behavior change that could include your food choices, exercise routine, and relaxation practices. Robin will assess your progress several times each week.

monthly in-person meetings

To maintain a personal connection, and allow for deeper assessment of goal attainment, successes, and healthful behaviors, Robin will meet with you in person on a regular basis. These meetings are designed to support you as you move forward. They may incorporate food shopping trips, cooking tips, deeper meditation, exercise participation, journal review, and discussion of any topic that will support your progress.

other tools and/or services

Robin will work with you to frequently assess your emotional health, happiness, productivity at home and at work, support systems, general lifestyle, fitness, nutrition choices (fast or slow foods, snacks, shopping, cooking, free time food preparation, accommodating work and travel), and relaxation practice.