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I am a Professor and Chair of Integrative Health Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a clinical medical anthropologist, an international health journalist, a registered nurse, a certified coach, and the author of numerous texts, including How to Be a Health Coach: An Integrative Wellness Approach and The Fitness Instinct. As the former Director of Integrative Practice at the Health Medicine Center, I have a clinical practice as a behavioural health specialist and am a certified coach with the International Coach Federation. I serve on numerous editorial review boards and professional membership boards. I am the Past Co-President of the National Wellness Institute Board, and sit on the Executive Board of the National Consortium for Credentialing Health and Wellness Coaches and the leadership council of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.