Doug Nau - Articles

Doug Nau, MBA, is a Certified Life Coach and professional Wellness Coach currently working in a corporate setting with a healthcare system in Northern California. Doug also maintains a personal growth and development blog/website http://i-grow.net with many related articles.

Why to Hire a Wellness Coach

You may or may not have heard of wellness coaching - its a field of health and wellness that is new, exciting, and rapidly evolving. While not everyone knows what a wellness coach is today (similar to the what I suspect people knew of personal trainers 30 years ago), I... Read

By: Doug Nau | 05/03/2009 | Health

The Difference Between Life Coaching and Psychology

Its very common to hear people ask questions regarding the differences of life coaching and therapy/counseling. As a certified life coach that has met with hundreds of clients, I've had an opportunity to become very aware of both the differences and the commonalities between the two professions. This is well... Read

By: Doug Nau | 05/03/2009 | Self Help

How to Become a Wellness Coach

Since switching careers in 2005 I've found it absolutely astonishing the amount of questions I continually get from people interested in becoming a wellness coach. Back when I was in the environmental software industry I can't remember one time that a person had asked me to provide an informational interview!... Read

By: Doug Nau | 03/03/2009 | Health