About 12 Weeks to Wellness

We believe in people’s ability to create healthy and fulfilled lives!

12 Weeks to Wellness is a client-centered wellness service provider that helps individuals make positive, lasting lifestyle changes for greater well-being. For 25 years, we have worked with employees, organizations, Employee Assistance Providers and Wellness Consultants helping them to be more successful, creating healthier lives, heightened personal achievement, performance and greater work-life satisfaction.

This inspiring, customized and proven health and wellness-based array of services and coaching from certified coaches, wellness professionals and dietitians gives individuals exceptional coaching, tools and resources needed to finally break free from old, unhealthy habits and achieve their goals. 

From coaching, assessments, webinars, challenges, strategic planning, health promotion and fitness services,1000s of employees have experienced the freedom of being happier, healthier, more productive, resilient, in better shape and more satisfied with their lives, at home and at work.

We take pride in providing exceptional service

Our Mission

To provide exceptional coaching, learning methods, wellness tools and resources to inspire our clients to take charge of their lives and make positive changes. We commit to thrive, grow and produce superior results.

Why 12 Weeks to Wellness

Trust and Longevity

We are an established health coaching, fitness and workplace wellness service provider. We have successfully helped thousands of individuals create healthier lives, heightened personal achievement and greater work-life satisfaction.

Best Price

We want to help you get the best return on your investment. Using 12 Weeks resources, tools, and methodology, we empower employees to be the best they can be. …at the best price!

Reputation

12 Weeks has an excellent reputation in the industry for quality, creative programming, professionalism, outstanding client outcomes and unparalleled service excellence.

Best Practice Approach

12 Weeks is ground-breaking and inventive. We have tailored our health management, coaching and wellness services using best practices and up to date research to help us stay on top of industry trends and client service experiences.

Exceed Expectations

We strive to continually improve our current services, offer more programs and exceed your expectations. Over the past fifteen years we have delivered at a high level and are committed to continue to provide the best value and service to our clients. 

Embracing Differences

As we advance we commit to progressive learning opportunities for our team, evolving our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) practices as we grow, and as we continue to seek inclusion of all people.

At 12 Weeks, we are made of people with unique backgrounds, beliefs, and opinions, delivering exceptional coaching and wellness programming for each of our client’s distinct needs.

Our shared core values include integrity and respect. The foundation of these values is a shared commitment to diversity, inclusion, belonging and justice.

Coaching is at the centre of all our programming and how we do business. A Coaching approach can have a profound impact on DEI because it is based on a few powerful principles:

A weight positive, health and wellbeing approach to weight management

Health and well-being have many dimensions, including physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, economic, environmental and educational. Though obesity it a risk factor for several chronic diseases, at 12 Weeks we understand that weight is only one indicator and not a simple predictor of a person’s health status.(1)

We recognize that focusing only on weight has limitations as weight is influenced by many factors, including genetics, stress , hormones, diet and lifestyle, sleep, stage of life, health conditions, physical activity, and environment(4).

We use an integrated approach that offers coaching around balanced nutrition vs. restricting food, encouraging mindful and intuitive eating, increasing activity, and promoting positive body image.

Research shows that weight loss is often not sustainable. As many as two-thirds of people who intentionally lose weight will regain more weight than they initially lost (3).

In fact, the obsession with achieving a specific weight can often lead to negative self-image and perpetuate an unhealthy cycle of body dissatisfaction. In contrast, research shows that body satisfaction and freedom from weight based stigma are linked to reduced risk for unhealthy dieting practices, sedentary behaviours, eating disturbances and weight gain. Furthermore, people who feel good about themselves and their bodies are more likely to have healthy self-esteem and adopt healthy lifestyle attitudes and behaviours.

12 Weeks embraces a weight positive, health and wellbeing approach to weight management. Our coaching focuses on:

• Health enhancing behaviors and developing a healthy relationship with one’s body and weight.
• A non-dieting approach that focuses on the relationship with food and the body by using intuitive eating tools, debunking food rules and focusing on physical activity.
• Empowering our clients and increasing their confidence to take forward action without using their body weight as a measure of success.

Our coaching is guided by the following principles:

• As weight is not a behaviour, we use alternate goals for behaviour change.
• Healthy eating and physical activity are important for health, regardless of BMI.
• Healthy bodies come in different sizes and shapes.
• It is important to encourage self-esteem, body satisfaction and respect for size diversity.

As 12 Weeks coaches we practice being

• Inclusive
• Accepting and respecting the diversity of body shapes and sizes
• Empathetic
• Curious
• Appreciative of our clients’ unique strengths and abilities
• Supportive
• Open-minded and flexible
• Non judgmental

To embrace and facilitate this approach we support clients with:

• Discovery of life and health enhancing physical activity that is enjoyable and individually appropriate.
• Healthy eating habits and mindful eating which balances individual nutritional needs, hunger, satiety, pleasure, cultural uniqueness, and economic means.
• Self care practices
• Resilience, confidence and a healthy self esteem
• A holistic view of health which includes getting adequate sleep, stress management, and taking care of one’s physical and mental wellbeing.
• Body positivity, body awareness and body image
• Past successes and definition of success
• Strengths
• Flourishing

Meet the team