Boago Modiisane: First Coach Malebye’s Holistic Wellness
OAfter more than two decades as an optometrist, Boago Modiisane discusses how he got into the field, how he serves the community and why the job continues to fulfill ne woman’s passion for
him. natural health has become a place to inspire
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My name is Boago Modiitsane, I
health coach Gomolemo Malebye
come from Mahalapye and did my
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at St Phaotwritcokl’isvePhriomlisatricyalSlycheoaollthayn. d Madiba Secondary School respectively. I am married and have three girls. Itceurlrlenutlysruanbmoy private practice in Mogoditshane, Eye Care Optometrists!
professional training, and any personal experiences you think illuminate the importance of what you do? does it entail?
wellness coach. I have over 13 years experience in the health and wellness
As a holistic wellness coach my work from Lobatse and Gaborone coming of
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the international coaching federation day I will have to be counted as one and approved cialist who by COMENSA(Coaches can deliver total eye cbaerset:suited for their needs. It entails a of eye care professionals in Botswana.and pmreinmtoarsy,osfeScountdhaAryfr,iacna)d.Ithearvtieary cfualrleon consultation, getting to know
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entrepreneurship and build my business identifying their needs beyond just the research My name I is settled Gomolemo for Optometry. Ursular ocular manifestations of systepmeriscon but looking at the environment, Malebye and I love to describe myself Natural wellness with Gomolemo
Government had offered me scholarship which diseases. is all about promoting natural the kind of support they have, their as a multidimensional to do dentistry being but on I a chose journey to triggers, fears, what activates them,
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problems we have with natural remedies start to recognise any gaps they have in refraction and dispensing, diagnionsaicshieving their goals. It’s also about to help the body heal. tNhaetwI aZmecaalallned totobepmurosrue,etoOdpotmoomre try. and management of diseases ofinthtreoducing people to other ways of than Upon just completion, being a woman, I came a mother back or eye and the rehabilitation of conhedail-ing that they may normally not be
homeAs a nurse. I can and will be anything and accustomed to. as the first Motswana to graduate as tions of the visual systems. Primary everything in this lifetime. I m a very saonciOabpletoanmdeatdriasptt.abI lehabveeinga,lsaolodvoerne ahealth
care optometry is complete eye and oMf alisfetearnsdDpegorpele winhPicuhbIlibceHlieevaelthhaswith vision care that highlights the importance been University highly influenced of Liverpool by my upbringiOngnamndyarlel in the UK. of optometry in prevention,
1o9ve9r6t,hIej3o5ineddescribe mtuyrnexhpeormieneciens health education, health promotion, years of life now. the private sector and subsequently health maintenance, diagnosis, treatment
By profession I am a qualified family started my private practice in 2000. and rehabilitation, counseling, nurse practitioner now turned holistic and interdisciplinary consultation.
Opticians are primary health care professionals who provide vision care through refraction and dispensing of optical aids such as spectacles.
First, please uowtn yourself: your
a holistic coach, how would you what you do? And what
How would you define “wellness” and “holistic health”
for SunHealth readers? Is it something you can concretely measure or is it more a feeling and state of mind? How do you know whether you’re “well” and when you have achieved “wellness” or is it always an ongoing goal?
Boago Modiisane
Wellness according to me is a state of harmony or homeostasis with your overall health whether its physical,m or eye inflammation. ental,social,intellectual or spiritual .