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What if the biggest obstacle to a healthier lifestyle isn’t your willpower—but your mindset? In this episode of the Results Without Restriction podcast, I chat with Renee Bellinger, a behavior-focused wellness coach certified by Precision Nutrition and Girls Gone Strong.
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With a background in psychology and over 15 years of experience as a Behavior Specialist, Renee Bellinger brings a unique, evidence-based approach to habit change that blends science, compassion, and a deep understanding of how our beliefs shape our behavior.
What We Talk About in This Episode:
- How Renee transitioned from behavioral psychology to wellness coaching after a career pivot during COVID
- The difference between mindset work and “woo-woo”—and why it matters
- How your belief system and thought patterns influence your ability to stick with healthy habits
- The reason most people try to change too much too fast—and why a “one thing at a time” approach actually works better
- The importance of sustainable movement and why joy matters more than intensity
- Practical ways to create an environment that makes healthy choices easier (like keeping cut veggies in the front of the fridge!)
Meet Wellness Coach Renee Bellinger:
Renee Bellinger is the owner of Renee Bellinger Coaching, LLC. She is:
- A Precision Nutrition Certified Coach
- A Girls Gone Strong Certified Women’s Coaching Specialist
- Certified in Health Mindset Coaching
Before coaching, Renee Bellinger worked in therapeutic education as a Behavior Specialist. Her deep background in applied psychology shapes her top-down, mindset-first approach to health. She focuses on helping women over 35 create sustainable change through habit-building, self-reflection, and belief work.
The Power of Mindset (and Why It’s Not Just a Buzzword): Coach Renee Bellinger explains that mindset isn’t just positive thinking or meditation—it’s your internal belief system. What you believe about yourself affects how you think, how you feel, and ultimately what actions you take. Her work focuses on:
- All-or-nothing thinking
- Fixed vs. growth mindset
- Rewiring thought patterns through awareness, reflection, and action
She has created a 6-day Mindset Mini-Course that breaks this down into daily emails, short homework assignments, and case studies that help participants understand how mindset shapes their choices and the development of sustainable healthy habits.
Her Coaching Style
Renee meets clients where they are. Her coaching includes:
- An initial intake and consult to find the best fit
- Behavior tracking through apps or journals
- Personalized goal-setting (focusing on one habit at a time)
- Ongoing reflection, check-ins, and even creative assignments like vision boards
Clients include everyone from teens building healthier routines before college to adults navigating perimenopause or recovering from pandemic burnout.
One Key Takeaway: Lasting change comes from slowing down and simplifying. Renee encourages clients to start with just one habit and build consistency before adding more. As she says, jumping in with everything might feel exciting at first, but slow and steady wins the race.
Want to Explore Mindset Work? Renee’s 6-day email-based Mindset Mini-Course helps you:
- Define what mindset means (without the fluff)
- Identify all-or-nothing thinking
- Catch, check, and change negative thought patterns
- Build belief in your ability to change
Each day includes a short lesson, a real-life case study, and simple reflection questions to help you connect the topic to your own life.
Connect with Health Coach Renee Bellinger:
- Visit her site: reneebellingercoaching.com
Want to learn more about the importance of a growth mindset?
Podcast Episode Transcript:
Coach Renee Bellinger: I would say like overall like my approach and how I’m indifferent than other wellness coaches, I believe, is that I really lead with the mindset piece, not that I’m like a mindset coach that I’m going to be like, oh, here are these like tools and your mindset’s going to be different, right? But it’s like listening to people maybe with a more therapeutic ear, cause like that’s who I am, and then trying to figure out like how to shift some belief patterns to get them to where they would like to be.
Laurie: Welcome, everyone. I am here with Renee Ballinger, who is a wellness coach.
She is Girls Gone Strong certified and Precision Nutrition certified. And her mission is to help women break the diet cycle by creating sustainable nutrition and movement habits. Welcome, Renee.
Renee: Hi, Laurie. How are you?
Good. I’m so excited because one of my biggest, the things that I like to talk about is habits, because once you create a habit, you’re no longer expending all this mental energy to try to do all the quote unquote, right things that you know, you should probably be doing like eating some vegetables, drinking some water, moving around, doing all that stuff.
So habits are one of my biggest conversation topics, and I’m sure people would love for me to shut up about it, but I just can’t. So I’m excited to have somebody else who’s also excited to talk about habits.
But before we get into that, I like to always start with talking to my guests about what brought them to the point of becoming, you know, a health coach or where they are in their business and kind of what motivated them to start helping others.
Renee: Well, my story is a little, I guess it’s like a typical COVID story, probably not the typical root of a wellness coach. But I prior to this job, I worked in a therapeutic school as assistant program director, having my master’s in counseling psych. So I spent the past like 15 years working with adolescents, helping them manage their behavior and difficult situations, among other things.
And I was laid off last year in August. And, but I’ve always had an interest in, well, not always, I shouldn’t say always, but had had an interest in fitness for the past, I don’t know, like 11, Lindsay’s 11, so maybe like 15 years or so. And then five years ago, I had nutrition coaching.
And it was just life changing. It was really helpful to me in terms of like, putting pieces together in a different sort of way. And after I had that coaching, I just became really interested in like nutrition and fitness and like how they’re intertwined.
And so when I got laid off, I was trying to decide if I was going to continue in education and get my certification or not like my, well, for lack of better word, certification to become like an official assistant principal. So I wasn’t going to work last year, just use the time to take some classes. And then about five days after I got laid off, like I had an email from precision nutrition, I wasn’t the first email, I was cleaning out my mailbox, I realized over the years they had sent me.
But it was the one that I saw and it was opening up for nutrition coaching. And so I spoke to my husband who’s in finance and has is very business minded, educator, not so much. That’s not my skill set.
And I was asking him what he thought. And he is really good at like being able to kind of pull through things or ideas that he doesn’t really feel are solid in a really smart way. And he thought it was a good idea.
And I brought it to a close group of friends and they also supported it. And so that began my journey. I was like, I want to take my passion and my knowledge of psychology and merge the two to create a coaching business.
So that’s how I started.
Tell me a little bit about precision nutrition in case our listeners don’t know what that means.
Renee: Well, so precision nutrition is a coaching program that really specializes in looking at things from a behavioral perspective, which is one of the reasons why it resonated with me.
I did another program with them a couple of years ago, and I liked it. So they really talk about everything through a habit based perspective. And that spoke to like what I know from behavioral psychology, and that’s why I chose precision nutrition.
And they also use like evidence based practices. So that is what that program is about. So it was very much a compliment to like the information I already had.
So it spends a lot of time on the science of nutrition. And then there’s a there’s a part about being a coach, which is kind of similar to what I was doing before a lot of information on the science of nutrition and then a segment on kind of looking at different habits that people can create to live a healthier life. Give me a hint.
What are some of those habits look like? Well, I mean, I think it depends per person. And so and that’s also as a coach, like I’m very individualized, but it could be for some people like looking at their protein intake. That’s always a big one.
I feel like most people are not eating enough protein. Eating vegetables is a big one. Sleep is a big one for people and even managing your stressors because all of these like play into like who you are as an individual.
This all makes sense, right? So when we’re stressed, that impacts how and what you eat and what you want to eat when you’re not sleeping, you know, that can also trigger a lot of different hormonal imbalances. So I like that well rounded approach. We’re talking about all the different things, all the different components of being healthy, like getting enough sleep, managing stress.
Talk to me about sustainable movement habits. Well, it’s really just like finding something that you like to do and that you can continue doing. I feel like I am very much a strength based person.
Like that’s my jam. And so a lot of people sometimes look at what I do or if they know me and they’re just like, okay, are you going to expect me to do that? I’m like, no, I’m not expecting you to come to my gym. Like if you want to, that’s great.
But like if it’s yoga, like do it, like move in a way that makes you happy. I feel like if you find reward in what you’re doing, you’re more likely to continue doing it if you can build systems in your life to make it a priority. So really, it’s like finding what works for people and what gives them joy.
So it’s basically like the path of least resistance to get moving. So something that you like, something that works with your lifestyle, something that you look forward to doing for whatever reason. If it’s walking, if it’s a group activity, if it’s something by yourself, having it be something you enjoy is definitely going to make it easier for you to do it regularly.
Right. So that brings you to, you did your precision nutrition certification. And now tell me about Girls Gone Strong.
I did that to learn a little bit more about menopause. Most of my clients are 35 plus, right? And like really understanding how the changes in your hormones, like as you are in perimenopause, like effects like stress and sleep and all of this stuff. Like, so that’s why I took the Girls Gone Strong certification.
But it really talks about how issues pertaining to women. And so I like to say it’s kind of like a womanist perspective of including that in the wellness space. And I wouldn’t necessarily say anything was necessarily new, but it was just like, oh, okay, that’s a good reminder to be considerate of those factors that impact us as women.
Because I think especially as women, we just live our lives in a certain way. And we don’t really reflect on maybe like all of the other things like coming into play, if that makes any sense. That makes total sense.
And I’m as so as a trainer, I have seen a lot of the Girls Gone Strong material that I’ve used it with my own clients. And I really love that approach for anybody who doesn’t know what’s created by women. And it’s a who’s a veritable who’s who of professionals that collaborate to put it together.
It is really well researched. And it’s really nice to see these programs that are created by women for women so that you know what the focus is. Because a lot, and I think you’ve probably seen this too, a lot of the programs out there are designed maybe by men for men, and women use them.
And it doesn’t take into account, like you said, all of the things that women are, you know, need to be aware of hormonal, you know, our bodies are different hormones, we have all these different things going on. So it’s really nice to have a program and be educated in a program that is created by women for women. And it’s a panel of of really just brilliant women.
So it’s not just, you know, couple people, it’s it’s it’s a whole team. So let me ask you, so in in the last year, so working with clients, especially during COVID, what have been some of the obstacles that your clients are facing that you’re specifically helping them with? Well, I would say it varies from person to person. I guess when I started working with clients, like the one thing I was not paying as much attention because when I worked in psychology as doing more behavioral psychology stuff, it’s really like applied psychology.
And a lot of it is looking at the environment and kind of making changes to the environment to make someone’s chances of doing something more successful, right? So it’s really about like manipulation of things and was kind of bringing that into the situation. Like even if you want to talk about habits, right?
If you want to eat more vegetables, you cut them up, you put them in the front, whatever. You know what I mean? That’s like manipulating your environment to make it more successful that you’ll be able to do something.
When working with clients, it was clear that people’s mindset or their belief that they could do something was kind of more like overarching than I originally gave it credit for.
And so I recently got certified in health mindset coaching, which has been huge because it helped me put like all everything together in a different sort of way. So I would say like overall, like my approach and how I’m different than other wellness coaches, I believe, is that I really lead with the mindset piece.
Not that I’m like a mindset coach that I’m going to be like, oh, here are these like tools and your mindset’s going to be different, right? But it’s like listening to people maybe with a more therapeutic ear because like that’s who I am. And then trying to figure out like how to shift some belief patterns to get them to where they would like to be, right?
So I mean, each person is different. I have, I’ve worked with like teenagers who wanted, whose parents wanted them to just like have a good foundation of nutrition in their senior year.
I’ve worked with just people like trying to get back into better habits like after a year of COVID. So what really has varied and what that looks like for each individual is so different. Do you find you have people who come to you and they just want to like jump in with both feet and you’re like, Well, I think that’s like human inclination, right? For everyone.
I think with everything like people do think that they need to do all the things. I just finished like a month ago, a summer accountability group and it was choosing, it was goal setting consistency through the summer. And the first module we spoke about the fact that it’s like I want them to choose just one thing to work on.
Like we’re not working on like three things, maybe two if I felt like they were crushing it, but it was really one thing. And at first everyone was like, what? Like, and I was just like, well, yes, like this is how you actually gain consistency. You really start to focus on one thing and build upon it.
And we did a lot of work with that. And yes, like they embraced it. And it’s funny because one of my good friends was in the group and she was texting me her goals and I’m like, girlfriend, you have like way too many things.
And I just feel like it’s a human inclination. Like we tend to want to jump in with everything that we have. And it almost seems counterintuitive if we’re so excited by something that that’s like the worst way to go about it.
Right. Because you’re just like, I’m ready. Like I can do all the things, but it just leads to like overwhelm.
It can lead to overwhelming burnout. Right. So, so yes, like I feel like most of my clients have come in wanting to do like all the things.
And I feel like especially me as a coach, like I’ve really pared back. Like I started seeing clients in February. I had a cohort of three people that I was seeing individually.
And I think in the beginning I was starting with like three things we would work on at a time. Now I say to clients, we’re starting with like maybe two, most likely one. Let me see how consistent you can be with like tracking your progress and checking in with yourself and all the things I want you to do.
And then maybe we’ll add another one. So even as a coach, I wanted to just be like, I want to help you do all the things. But you know that the actual results come from the slow and steady approach.
I know a lot of my clients would come to me and they’d say, oh, let’s just, I need a complete overhaul. I need to do like a jumpstart. I need to do everything at once.
And I’m like, well, you can do that, but guess what’s going to happen? You know, you’re going to crash and burn and we need to do baby steps and we need to do it this. And then they get upset because they’re like, no, no, no, you don’t understand. I need, I need to do everything right now.
I want to touch on one thing that you just said, which was the mindset piece for you as a coach was bigger than you had anticipated. This brings me to your mindset mini course that you have available. Can you talk to us a little bit about what’s in there? Sure.
It is a six day email sequence. And first it defines mindset because I do feel like a lot of people, it is very much of a buzzword. And I mean, it does have multiple meanings sometimes, right? You’ll hear like your mindset about food and it’s really like your thoughts about food, not your mindset.
But when I’m talking about mindset, I’m talking about like the belief that you can do something. It’s like how you view the world, how you approach situations. So defines mindset, talks about the importance of awareness, and then talks about all or nothing thinking and also fixed and growth mindset.
And so within each day, there is a case study and also a homework assignment. So the case study, you read it, you reflect upon it, you answer the questions based on what you see in Jacqueline for the day. And then there’s homework assignments that are like one or two questions.
Like for you, how does the topic of the day, where do you see it coming up in your life? And it doesn’t have to be about wellness. I had a friend I was talking to yesterday who used it, is using it to help her like explore her thoughts about getting a new job because mindset is kind of it’s there and it’s your belief system. You don’t have to use it for wellness.
You can use it for anything. And so each email is scheduled or designed to take 10 minutes of your time. It’s not, I mean, you could take more if you wanted to, but really it’s short, something that’s doable and not too overwhelming.
And there are also like links within the email. So if you would like accountability, some people have used them to reach out to me for accountability if you have any questions. So the feedback has been great.
By the time this airs, it will be, there will be a link on my Instagram bios so people can purchase it. But people have really said it’s really helped them understand what mindset is and to see that some of the barriers that come into play in their life and how it comes into their life. And so I think that’s the beauty of it is that it’s not just like, okay, all or nothing thinking this is what it is and giving an example that people can’t relate to, there might be a question kind of like how does this relate to your life.
And do these things. So for all or nothing, it’s like, okay, do you ever see yourself thinking like this like can you put things on a continuum like that’s an example of the homework assignment. So, or can you like plan for obstacles as they come up so they’re actionable evidence based things that people can do.
That sounds really helpful for people who I know and I’ve, especially in the last year have kind of gotten into these thought patterns of, you know, things that I do or don’t do, based on, you know, these repeating thoughts and what I believe and what’s holding, you know, and I’ve had to really examine things that have been holding me back that are really just in my head and my own self limiting kind of beliefs about what I’m, what I’m capable of, or what maybe more like what opportunities to pursue and things like that. But anyway, yes, that’s really like the foundation of habit change and behavior change is understanding where we’re kind of keeping ourselves stuck.
And using that information to kind of, I had a guess and on the podcast we talked about mindset and these, these thoughts that get grooved in so deeply after years and years that it really does seem like we believe them because we think them we think them because we believe them and it’s just this cycle and it really does take some kind of like pause and examination to say, is this true? Right, because yes, because like your mindset does affect your thoughts, which then in turn interplay with your feelings and then are reflected in your behaviors right so mindset’s really the key.
They all interplay with each other, but it’s your belief that you can do something leads to thoughts and August 31st, I had a post about a cognitive therapy skill that you can use if you find yourself in a negative thought, like if you can actually catch a thought, you know, so it’s like catching a thought, checking the thought, and then changing the thought. And so I lay out kind of how to do that if you notice that you have these thoughts in terms of, I mean you can use it for everything, but as a disclaimer, like really the purpose of the post was like for wellness goals, right?
Like if you are having more mental health issues, you should see a licensed professional, but if you’re thinking to yourself, like, I can never be consistent with my exercise, why do I even bother? That is when you catch yourself thinking that well, then that’s a perfect time to use that exercise to then come up with a replacement thought that over time with practice, that will become your automatic thought your replacement thought right as long as like you go through the exercise and find something that’s meaningful to you. So often, we don’t catch ourselves.
We’re on just such a like an automatic loop of, Oh, I didn’t work out today. Oh, I’m, I’m so lazy. Oh, what’s wrong with me? Why am I so inconsiderate? Why can’t I stick to anything? And we go down this, it’s rehearsed, it’s not I want to say rehearsed, it is, it is grooved in, we, it’s, we’ll just go ahead and berate ourselves mentally, instead of saying, Wait a second, well, you know, what’s behind this? It’s like your fixed mindset.
It’s like the belief that, okay, this is who I am, right? So then when you don’t go to the gym, it’s like evidence that okay, this is another example that I’m not that type of person who can stick to an exercise plan, right? So, I mean, that’s why I spent some time in the course talking about awareness and how important it is, I call it noticing that because these thoughts in our belief systems are so ingrained, not ingrained, they’re really, they are ingrained, our beliefs are ingrained, but we don’t even notice that they’re, we’re saying these things to ourselves.
So it’s really kind of like taking the time to try to work some things out. And if you do notice things like to start asking yourself questions about whether or not that’s true for you.
Again, it’s easy. In some ways, it’s easier if you’re like, you have a specific goal that you’re thinking about, and then you can work backwards from that. And it’s not that I’m asking people to meditate.
I will, I’m gonna ask, I’m gonna ask everybody to meditate because you all need it. Okay. It’s not a bad thing.
But I do feel like people think, okay, mindset, she’s going to say meditate and that there’s nothing wrong with that. That is a way to develop mindfulness and a different mindfulness as well. Right.
But it could be like you’re talking to someone or you say something. And if you catch yourself like journaling and like digging deep and really thinking through things. And one of the things I do in the course is like, okay, think about a time when you had a goal that you didn’t meet that goal.
What happened? Right. And lay out like what you’re thinking, feeling like they’re series of questions. So it really goes from a place of like almost like reverse design of you don’t have to be like this enlightened person who’s like, Oh, I caught that thought.
It’s like, no, I’m asking you to go back to a situation that you’ve already had and think about it. That is really what the course is trying to do for people. A couple of months ago, I was asking people like what they wanted, what they felt they needed to work on.
And I was surprised when people said mindset because mindset posts generally flop on social media. Like, for example, the post I was telling you about, about the thought checking, it got maybe five likes. But when I looked at my insights, like four people saved it and one person shared it.
So it’s like, okay, well, that’s good. But on the outskirts, it seemed like no one commented on it. I only got five likes.
So it seems like no one likes it. And I do feel like with a lot of the mindset stuff, it’s like people appreciate it. And it’s almost like they lurk, like they’re even afraid to like, like it, they don’t want to be associated with that.
But there, it’s in the back of their head. Mindset has become a little bit of a buzzword. What is mindset? What do people think mindset is? Like you said, people think mindset and they think meditation.
And earlier you said mindset is your belief system. The thing about mindset is that people want to checklist. They want to do things.
They want like, tell me what to do. What do I do? And if and if the answer is, you know, journaling, that’s a thing I can do. Right.
So if you’re talking about the activity to kind of help. But when you start using the word mindset, I think people’s eyes glaze over a little bit because they’re like, is it?
Are we talking woo woo stuff here? Are we talking like real action? Yeah, and some people like the woo woo stuff. So there’s nothing against that, right? But I do think that because so many people use it differently.
And I do feel like there is an interplay with that and thought. And I feel like because it is like kind of the buzzword that people try to use it a lot. But I’m trying to put some more evidence based practices out there that are aligned with it and what it means.
We went through this with mindfulness too. I think mindfulness was like a buzzword for a bit and people were just like, Oh, I’m mindful. So Renee, I would love for you to talk to us a little bit about your one on one coaching program.
So what does that look like? And who would be an ideal candidate? How do I want to say this? What does it look like to work with you? What can somebody expect to get out of your program? I would say, and I’m going to answer the question you didn’t want to ask. And ideal candidate is someone who does not, who also appreciates like data and doing the work because there is a behavior tracking piece, right? Like we can’t know what we’re doing if we don’t track it.
So clients who’ve had the most success with me are ones who do like the homework assignments, whatever they are.
So it consists of fill out an application doesn’t mean that you’re committed to work with me, ask you a couple questions, have a phone call, figure it out if it is a good fit, and then send you an intake if I do realize it’s a good fit and go through the intake. And on our first phone call, we go over the initial intake application, and to think of based on whatever your goal is, like what you would like to work on to get to that place, right?
So it could be, and it ranges, like I’m working with a client now who’s like, I really wanted to like focus on mindset. So we did a lot more noticing and naming like the emotions she was feeling when she was about to like dive into like chips on her way home or what have you, right? We really slowed her down and found like replacement behaviors to deal with like those emotions.
So it could be something like that, or it could be like I mentioned earlier, like the teen whose parents just wanted her to have a healthier foundation with her senior year of going forward. So we really looked at her schedule. She’s an athlete.
And we spent three months really focused on increasing her vegetable intake and learning how to make better choices for her like at restaurants. And that kind of tied into like snacks, like what snacks she brought, like when she was competing. And that was all stemming from like just really focusing on vegetables, right? It like branched out to like different things.
So it ranges. So it is a three month minimum commitment and after three months, well around like month two, we talk about next steps. After the first three months, it’s month to month, and the price decreases.
And at the end of our journey together, clients get a summary. So they get a summary of what they wanted to work on, the goals that they chose and the goals that we address during the time of our work together, and then propose next steps, like areas that they should continue to focus because I felt like that was also missing a missing piece from coaching. The thing I know from like my own experience and like from others, it’s like you do it and it’s kind of like people, not like they’re done with you, but it’s there’s not really a next step.
So you’re kind of feeling like, do I do the same things I’ve been doing for the rest of my life? Like, I don’t know what to do. So trying to build more self-efficacy with my clients being like, okay, like these are some areas, you know how we built these habits, you can translate it to these areas if you would like to further your journey. And so that’s what it looks like to work with me.
Let me ask you real quick, because I know when I was working with clients, I used a bunch of different apps. And now a lot of them are coming out with like habit tracking features.
I know personally that I’ve used nudge, and I’ve used your coach, and I’ve used trainer eyes with clients, the habit tracking, the thing you do, and you’re checking off, and you’re like, it gives you that feeling of like, accomplishment to see, you know, and you can track your progress and say, Oh, for the last seven days, I completed this habit.
And it gives you the big picture, you can say, look how I’m doing, I’m consistent, and it builds that confidence that you’re, you know, you can do this. So is that something that you do for clients? Like, do you work with an app? Are you pen and paper to you? It’s like a mix. Like, I do have an app that I’m using currently.
And it is more kind of like there might be it depends, it depends on what they’re tracking, right? It could either be like targets for the day that they enter in or what have you.
So it could be like, their target for the week is to drink a glass of water a day, like at the end of the night, they will track like how many glasses of water that they drank. And sometimes I supplement that with like sending clients like journal prompts to write about if they’re interested in that as well, or other homework assignments.
So when I wrapped up with like my team, for example, like she had her do like a vision board, because she was worried about what it would be like when we didn’t work together. So had her do a vision board of how she felt in this moment. And so that was something that she could visually see.
Client I’m working with now we’re getting close to termination, we’re moved away from the app because she wants to, and I don’t want her to feel like she has to be dependent on like an app. So she is writing down behaviors that she knows will indicate that she’s kind of falling off track.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who is Renee Bellinger and what makes her coaching approach unique?
A: Renee Bellinger is a wellness coach with certifications from Precision Nutrition, Girls Gone Strong, and Health Mindset Coaching. What sets her apart is her background in behavioral psychology, which she uses to help clients reframe limiting beliefs and build healthy habits from the inside out.
Q: What is the Mindset Mini-Course and who is it for?
A: The Mindset Mini-Course is a 6-day email program created by Renee to help individuals understand and shift the beliefs that may be holding them back from making progress in wellness or life goals. It includes daily case studies, reflection prompts, and practical tools grounded in psychology and behavior change.
Q: What kind of results can I expect from Renee’s coaching?
A: Renee’s clients report improved consistency, better self-awareness, and more confidence in their ability to stick to healthy habits. Her approach is individualized and focuses on sustainable change—whether it’s improving nutrition, managing stress, or building movement routines.
Q: Do I need to track my habits or use an app?
A: Habit tracking is encouraged but tailored to your preference. Renee uses a flexible approach—some clients use tracking apps, while others prefer pen and paper or guided journaling. The goal is to help you become more aware of your behaviors and patterns.
Q: How can I get started working with Renee Bellinger?
A: To start, you’ll fill out a short application and book a free consult call. From there, Renee will determine if her coaching is a good fit and work with you to design a plan based on your goals. Coaching typically begins with a 3-month commitment.
Q: Is Renee’s coaching just for women?
A: While Renee primarily works with women—especially those 35 and up—her approach is inclusive and personalized. Her coaching is rooted in empathy and evidence, and she welcomes anyone looking to improve their health habits and mindset.
