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Reaching Your Goals on the Road Ahead

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 23, 2013 / Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Wellness Coaching

Dreams, Deadlines and Commitments A lot of my clients have the initial worry of how far they have to go in reaching their health and wellness goals. They focus on the long road ahead and freak out about how long it will take to get there. We’re a growing nation of impatient (stressed and overweight) people the more modern stress takes its’ toll on our lives. We want change immediately, and what’s more, we want it to last so that we never, ever have to deal with the conflict or upset ever again! The worst thing is that we spend so much time

How to Create Life Balance and Fulfil Your Needs

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 17, 2013 / Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

WELLNESS TIP – Life Balance Life Balance is an interesting term many use when they suddenly become aware that they don’t have any! This usually comes about the more stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted and/or frustrated you increasingly feel. Creating life balance isn’t about controlling life – obligations, commitments, challenges and bumps in the road can easily disrupt your plans and unbalance your life every day! The trick is in recognising where your needs aren’t being met and attending to them as a daily act of self-love. The focus then becomes on YOU and not what happens to you. Here’s a list identified by

Achieve Your Wellness NOW!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 12, 2013 / Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Mindset, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Wellness Coaching

Happier, Healthier, Fitter! Fulfil your needs and find your balance in all areas of your life: Mentally, Physically, Spiritually and Emotionally. My new eStore is up and the first product live is my comprehensive wellness coaching workbook designed to move you step by step from overwhelm, confusion and low energy to wellness, happiness and abundance in all areas of your life. Just like I did on the road to my own healing and wellness journey! Evaluate your strengths and values. Align your beliefs with your actions. Create and achieve SMART goals using short and long term goal planners with solution focused evaluations. Clarify your

Do You Love or Hate Your Body?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on August 19, 2013 / Emotional Eating, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Are you in Love or Hate with Your Body? How many times have you looked at your physical reflection and zoned in on the body parts you’re not so fond of, only to begin a barrage of nasty name-calling and judgements in your mind towards it? Our body image is largely dependant on how we FEEL and THINK about our bodies. personal loans lenders for bad credit When we have negative feelings towards our bodies, our mind, mood, confidence, eating choices and behaviour all decline as we focus on those negative feelings, become overcome by them, and eventually feel even more weighed down by what’s

What is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 25, 2013 / Health & Fitness, Inner-Strength, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management

Emotional Freedom Technique history pioneer services have Tapping your way to health, success, wealth and happiness… What is EFT? If you have negative emotions creating roadblocks in your efforts to create change, feel happier, get fitter, be successful, find love, accept yourself, be more, do more, feel more, have more… you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from trying EFT. It’s quick, painless and easy to learn. Sequences are tailored to your individual fears, limiting beliefs and personal mental and emotional blocks. It’s a meridian based therapy focusing on releasing blocked energy within the body to return the flow of health,

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on June 2, 2013 / Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Positive change, Positive Psychology

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN! Many of you have heard me talk about food designers before. They have the task of creating the perfect ratio of fat, sugar and salt in a food product that will create opiates in the brain to have you craving more! People already restricting themselves find these cravings overwhelming and will often berate themselves and feel like failures, believing they have no willpower or motivation. This often leads to comfort or emotional eating, which of course is only feeding the cravings. People try so hard to eat healthy,

Breast Cancer and the BRCA tests – My Personal Story

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 15, 2013 / Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Mental-Health, Mindset, Positive Psychology

My Personal Story Breast Cancer and the BRCA Tests I felt compelled to write this newsletter after watching and listening to all the media talk on Angelina Jolie’s choice for a double mastectomy after the results of her BRCA tests. I’m sure there are many other women (and men) out there in a similar position who have spent a split second wondering if they made the right choice because of a celebrity making hers, or who are now beginning to wonder about their own health in this area after seeing the news. As this media announcement is personal to my own circumstances, I am sharing my story here

Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 21, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

“Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today.” ~ Dr Bruce Lipton (Developmental Biologist) This quote and medical fact is the reason I spend so much time educating my students and clients about the Stress Response and how it affects their mind, body and spirit on a daily basis. Meditation promotes the Relaxation Response and is one of the best antidotes to stress there is. Meditation is an achievable and beautiful pathway to self-awareness, inner peace and stressing less for healing and health. The Term 2 Monday Evening Weekly class began last week and has grown 3 times the size since

Ho’oponopono Meditation: A Way to Healing and Forgiveness

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 1, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management

Ho’oponopono.. Pronounced “hoh OH pohno pohno,” it is the ancient Hawaiian system of healing, problem solving and transformation. If you’ve been carrying around guilt, blame, regret, anger or shame… perhaps practising Ho’oponopono for forgiveness, is just what your mind, body and spirit need. In Hawaiian the word means “to make right or to rectify an error.” This may not necessarily be something literal that you have done. An “error” can also be a memory (or memories) of emotions, words, situations and behaviours that replay in your subconscious mind and feed your limiting beliefs. By practising Ho’oponopono, we are able to open our subconscious minds to

Visualisation for a happy mind, body and soul

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 31, 2013 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Visualise Your Best Self Did you know that your mind is a powerful tool in helping you create positive changes in your life? Using creative visualisation can help the subconscious mind to create real and meaningful associations with the feelings and desires of what you truly want to instil in your daily life. This paves the way for a happy mind, body and soul. wealthy Begin by imagining what you would like more of: how you will feel to have it, feel it, be it… and then spend a few minutes playing it out in your mind as if you

You ARE Good Enough!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 30, 2012 / Confidence, Inner-Strength, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Sparkle & Shine, Wellness Coaching

It’s been a quick year and we’re nearly to Christmas! I wanted to remind each of you that regardless of what stage you may find yourself at on your personal journey through life, always remember…. You ARE good enough! You ARE worth what you want! I believe in you. If you don’t believe in yourself or your own worth then it’s time to conquer the fear or anger that’s stopping you before it monopolises another year of your life. To change your life for the better, start with your THOUGHTS about your life. Your thoughts shape your experience and then

5 Steps for Creating Change

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 26, 2012 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Wellness Coaching

5 Steps for Creating Change To first create change you must know what you want to be different: This is where you are… this is where you want to be. Visualisation is a powerful tool that can impact your subconscious mind when practised regularly. Take a few minutes to breathe slowly, deeply and naturally. Settle your breathing into a natural rhythm and just focus on your breathing. Once your thoughts and breathing settle, visualise your life how you want to be living it: use images, feelings and emotions. Make it as real as you can in your minds’ eye… See

Get Your Body in Motion to Still Your Mind – Elemental Movement Meditation

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 5, 2012 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Fat Loss, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Sparkle & Shine, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

I’m excited!! separate monthly Recently I spent a long weekend up in Maleny (near gorgeous Montville and Mapleton on the Sunshine Coast) at a practitioners retreat: learning, sharing, brainstorming and dancing….. yes that’s right, DANCING!! It wasn’t your normal kind of dancing – it was so much more than that. Initially I thought, hmm, I’m not so sure I want to do this in front of a bunch of people I don’t know! BUT… once we began I found myself quickly forgetting about the other people struggling to find their own personal rhythm; some swaying timidly, others clearly uncomfortable and

31 Ways to Feel Beautiful

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 1, 2012 / Confidence, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Stress Management

Easy Ways to Feel Beautiful In Your Own Skin It’s more important to recognise and embrace your own beauty, than to compare and feel like you fall short. So today I thought I’d have a spontaneous stab at writing down what makes me feel beautiful… This is really making me think for a moment so I’ll take a few breaths, tune in and start slowly: I feel beautiful when I smile I feel beautiful after a few slow, deep breaths. I feel beautiful when I meditate using personal, powerful and present tense affirmations. I feel beautiful when I eat lots

EASY Nutrition for Health & Weight Management

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 15, 2012 / Eating Disorders, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Positive Psychology, Wellness Coaching

Colour Your Plate and Get Healthy! I’ve always loved chopping up fresh fruit and vegetables and creating different blends of slop in my blender! Over the weekend I decided to experiment with Kale. Here’s a pic of chopped Kale in my blender.. KALE is very high in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, and reasonably rich in calcium. A member of the cabbage and broccoli family, it contains sulforaphane (particularly when chopped or minced) – a chemical with potent anti-cancer properties. Blending is a quick and easy, nutritious way to incorporate a variety of nutrients, vitamins and minerals

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