ABOUT
Ian Kirk BSN, RN
Cancer survivor, Near Death Experiences, Trauma Care, Burn Nurse, Pediatric Trauma Nurse, Alpinist, Snowboarder, Mountain Biker, Mountain Runner, Rock Climber. Dog dad.
Health is what helps us enjoy life. My health means everything to me.
Taking care of so many patients over the years I have learned some of the worst illnesses that plague our nation are preventable and so many more are completely manageable or reversible. I want to help clients take back their power to get healthy and active. I am here to get you off the couch and into the outdoors where humans belong. I want to help you make the trend towards the mountains, forests, deserts, oceans, skys, and landscapes. And trend away from hospitals and being stuck inside.
You can take the next step in the right direction towards better overall wellbeing or keep taking the path you're on.
I'm so happy that you've found your way here. As someone who has been in the healthcare sphere since being diagnosed with Lymphoma at the age of 3, I've come to realize that nothing is more important than your health and wellbeing.
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My health has been a priority to me since childhood. I went into nursing to pass this passion off to others. After caring for thousands of patients suffering from conditions that were mostly preventable, I decided to transform my nursing practice to be far more in alignment with what I know to be true:
Wellness is something that you can obtain at any stage of your life. Regardless of what diagnosis or condition you have. You deserve to live well and thrive.
What is Nurse Coaching?
That is a really great question. Before I was trained I wondered the same thing. Nurses have a unique skill set compared to many other practitioners. We are hyper generalists. We have niches that we specialize in. My nursing personal niches have been holistic preventative and reversal care through lifestyle medicine. My clinical niche has been trauma care. But as nurses we experience and help people through so much. Birth, Death, Illness, tragedy, education, rehabilitation, life and care planning, family dynamics, mental health, psychology / psychiatry, pain. The list goes on and on. My other passion and niche is athletics, outdoor extreme sports, mental health, mental ju-jitsu (wrestling with the mind) and life in the great outdoors.
We rise above many of the other coaches out there by our sheer number of experiences with patients and complex issues. You may be hard pressed to find a coach out there who has had the breadth of experience with clients that a nurse does unless the coach was also some form of other health care practitioner.
Be it me or another of the army of nurses going into this field you will be highly impressed with the amount of experience and compassion that a nurse can provide. However, with that being said, the art of coaching puts us in a role to get you to take action! The goal of coaching is to improve your life, health, relationships, wellbeing, vitality, longevity and happiness. More often then not this requires action. Coaching is not a pill you can swallow but is rather a catalyst to the expansion of your innate ability to be amazing in this beautiful world you inhabit.
If you have any questions at all send over an email. Customizable packages are available. Outdoor adventure guiding combined with health and wellness coaching is available.