Crystal Mackay, Quit Coach, Service Delivery

I've always been passionate about helping people, especially when it comes to improving their health and quality of life. It's an honor to be able to help someone reach their health goals. When you see/hear about results, you know you're doing a good job and are helping to improve peoples' lives overall. Free & Clear fits right in to what I wanted in my career: health promotion.  Health Promotion is what I majored in in college and is my interest in life.  Our company clearly displays this in the programs we offer. I am and have always been an active person. I love endurance running and other sports or forms of exercise (yoga, strength training, etc.).  Getting outdoors to do these things helps make them fun and I enjoy trying different foods too, especially fresh foods.

My recent health goals include keeping up my endurance running strength by eating the right kinds of foods and making sure to eat enough!  I also would like to balance out my normal endurance running training by incorporating more strength training, yoga & other ways to destress (prayer, meditation, visualization, etc.). I am inspired by the those who I'm helping everyday, at work & outside of work.  I have been involved with Team In Training for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) for several months now & am continuously inspired by my teammates & coaches, but more importantly by the people with blood cancers who we are helping.  Their struggle to stay alive is far more intense than any training my teammates & I will have to go through... ever.  They inspire me to keep going & to keep making healthy decisions.

In the past, I've enjoyed writing about the participant's perspective.  How they view the tragedies & triumphs of going through their individual quit processes.  Everyone is different & they struggle with different things throughout their quits.  It's interesting to hear what they've had to say because, as a counselor/coach, it's easy to get lost on the real meaning of quitting for an individual.  Their stories of what they've found helpful or not helpful have helped me, in the past, to become a better counselor or coach & remind me of why I enjoy doing what I do. 

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