The concepts of coaching and empowerment have become very popular. Coaching enables people to make positive changes in their lives. The Swedish translation for empowerment is “the mobilization of power”. The aim of this study is to explore how coaching can help to promote empowerment and thereby help to increase people's health. The research investigates the following questions: What is the link between coaching and empowerment? How does empowerment improve people's health? And finally: Is it possible to increase the individual's health with coaching? The essay is based on a literature review. It analyzes the results of eleven scientific articles. The results show that empowerment and coaching have a lot in common and that both promote people's health. Coaching can improve self-confidence, self efficacy,self-esteem, self-management, coping, autonomy, empowerment, pain management, stress management, management skills and emotional intelligence. Coaching leads to a change in attitudes that facilitate lifestyle changes and improve the quality of life. Coaching encourages people sense of Coherence (SOC), which means more manageability, comprehensibility and meaningfulness in life, which leads to the conclusion that coaching is one way to do empowerment. The discussion deals with the differences between paternalism and empowerment, emotional intelligence and its importance and how coaching affects health. It discusses the relationship between mind and body; the importance of coping and how coaching promotes leadership abilities. Finally coaching is treated in the context of empowerment and the sense of coherence (SOC).