How to be a Wellness Ally

Outline:

• Welcome Sarah & Sarah's experience working with Jenn
• How Sarah's balancing going back to work with her health goals
• Talking about our health/weight loss goals: Jenn didn't share with roommates in college, Sarah did share with her current roommate
• Doing this alone is hard & a study about having support on this journey 
• Talking to the wellness ally:
  • Has anyone share their health goals with you? Initial responses matter.
  • It can be confronting for the ally
  • Let the person on the health path drive the conversation
  • Grace & compassion - in meals, social plans, etc.
  • Make plans that don't have food as the focus, experiences and activities instead or in addition 
  • Choose restaurants with healthful options
  • For dessert...offer once.
  • Compliments & how to notice results
  • Avoid being the subtle saboteur
  • Be indifferent to the details
• When we feel others around us need to focus on their health
  • How to be silently supportive
  • Let your example be the invitation
  • Be balanced, your extreme doesn't compensate for their decisions
• When you're on the wellness journey
  • Enlist the support of a coach
  • Find wellness and activity friends
  • Choose carefully who you share this with and tell them what to do to support you
• A final note to the ally, what kind of friend do you want to be?

Quotes:
"Compliment the energy...or the clothes...instead of the weight loss." - Jenn Trepeck
"Be indifferent to the details and supportive of the effort, energy and commitment." - Jenn Trepeck
"Let your example be the invitation." - Jenn Trepeck

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