Make New Goals and Make Them SMART with Martha Kester, NBC-HWC

You know you need to live a healthier life but just sure where to start? In this session, Martha will introduce you to the wellness wheel- a powerful goal setting tool. After Martha explains the wheel, you will take 10 minutes to fill it out and then a few minutes to sit back and examine your wheel. Martha will ask you several questions helping you to figure out which areas from your wheel you would like to work on. From there, Martha will help support and guide you towards making SMART Goals. SMART is an acronym that stands for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound. Using this acronym helps you to set a goal that is attainable and attainable goals are ones you are more likely to have success with. The more success you have at achieving wellness goals the more likely you will be able to build a healthy lifestyle.

The wheel works as Martha has used the wheel in her own life and has had clients find success with it as well. Martha became a certified health coach in 2017, and board certified in 2020. Over the years of coaching, Martha has helped clients find sleep again, ease digestive stress and even get off of IBS medicine, discover the right way to eat for them and their families and a workout plan that works for their life. She has experience with helping clients find work life balance and reducing stress.
Not only is Martha a coach, but she is also a certified yoga instructor and has been teaching since 2011. When she is not coaching, she can be found running, lifting weights, teaching or taking yoga, being an aunt, hanging with her husband, cooking or playing on the water. She lives in Beaufort, SC, where she was born and raised. Her passion for wellness started in college and gradually grew and grew over the years. She has dealt with many health issues from depression to massive weight loss and gain, hypoglycemia, food anxiety, athletic bulimia and now hoshimotos. These experiences help her to relate to her clients and have even more compassion for them. She loves helping people because she knows personally that not feeling good doesn't feel good and can impact so many aspects of life.