Mission STatement
One Earth. One People. One Love.
Our mission is to ensure our Earth's future is healthy, balanced, and sustainable by providing critical knowledge, strategy, and guidance at the individual behavioral and decision-making levels.
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
Buddha
Coach DC
My name is Darren. I am a Filipino-American from the Bronx. As a child, I began to love science and attended schools in the Bronx, East Harlem, and Lower East Side. In May 2022, I graduated from Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY, with a B.Sc. in Biology and a minor in Health and Wellness.
On orientation day of college, I was first introduced to the concept of wellness. During my sophomore year of college, the COVID-19 pandemic swept the nation. This gave me the perspective for me to reflect and realign my priorities toward what really mattered: a sustainable life of health and well-being for all. Our fate and intuition lead us here today.
My favorite things are playing chess, training boxing, and watching the UFC.
Frequently ANswered Questions
Wellness = Preventative Medicine.
They say, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and it is true. Wellness itself is preventative medicine. Making healthy, educated lifestyle choices will lower the risk of disease. While we cannot wholly predict what can go wrong with our system, we can ensure our minds and bodies are in the best shape for anything God throws at us.
Health Coach: Do's and Don'ts
What you focus on grows, like attention to a garden. While healthcare is its invaluable life-saving niche, the United States system focuses on treating ailments and symptoms with prescriptions. As coaches, we do not diagnose, treat, prescribe, interpret medical results, write food plans, nor recommend supplements.
On the other hand, we focus on sustainable good health which minimizes disease risk. Health coaches are a non-clinical part of the health care team that do not prescribe medicine but help implement change on a more intimate yet holistic level, listening, inspiring, and leading their clients to the life they want through their everyday choices.
The Pursuit of Wellbeing
In the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers made it our right to the "pursuit of happiness." However, it is impossible to be happy all the time. Like any other emotion, happiness passes. Wellness, however, is not an emotion but a state of being through our choices. Our efforts are best suited to pursue wellness. Health is wealth!
Health is a crown that the healthy wear on their heads, but only the sick can see it.
Al Shafi'i
