Wellness Coaching – Page 2 – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food

How to Get a Good Night Sleep

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 1, 2015 / Benefits of Meditation, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Get a Good Night’s Sleep I openly admit I’ve been guilty of prioritising emails, phone calls, and tweaking my website over getting to bed at a decent hour. Once I’m actually in bed it’s very tempting to check my Facebook, Instagram and YouTube accounts – and I know I’m not the only one! Sleep deprivation affects a large percentage of the population and contributes to various health concerns. It’s hard to show up every day and be productive, effective and vibrant when you’re consistently lacking sleep. According to Shawn Stevenson in his latest book, Sleep Smarter – a scientific look at

Is Food Controlling Your Life?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 30, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Holistic Health, Wellness Coaching

Is Food Controlling Your Life…. Or are you just eating your feelings? So many people have an unhealthy relationship with food. They habitually use it for comfort, distraction and punishment instead of true nourishment, information and energy for the brain and body. Your relationship with food is usually a reflection of the relationship you have with yourself. When clients come to me for food issues, they are totally exhausted from fighting back emotions and living inside their heads. No matter how hard they try, they just can’t seem to get a handle on their eating! Is this really the way

Homemade Body Scrub and Face Mask

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 5, 2015 / Body Image, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Self-Care, Sparkle & Shine, Wellness Coaching

Homemade Beauty: Body Scrub and Face Mask I am often complimented on my skin (which is lovely to hear as I age). When people ask what I use, they are often surprised to learn that I actually do not use expensive creams, masks or potions. Putting toxins and chemicals on my face isn’t as appealing as it used to be before I knew what was actually in those products and how they harm the body. Just my like my REAL FOOD Guidelines, I like to keep my beauty routine simple. Unfortunately I was fond of using harsh glycolic acid peals and lightening

Inspiring Wellness to Live Your Best Life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 3, 2015 / Food, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Medicinal Nutrition, Meditation, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Wellness Inspiration to Live Your Best Life Death and Cancer. These two words often co-exist and can strike fear, anger and grief into the heart with one cruel blow. And chances are, you have been affected by either one of these at least once in your life so far. Last weekend Jess Ainscough, founder of The Wellness Warrior, peacefully passed away at 30 years of age after living with a rare cancer (epithelioid sarcoma) for 7 years. She was so young and outwardly positive. Jess inspired wellness into the hearts of thousands who received her regular emails. She spoke and wrote

My Interview on HOT FM

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 3, 2015 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Wellness Coaching

HOT FM Interview I love talking on the radio, especially going into the studio and sitting around all the equipment that I would have a ball playing around with! I wouldn’t know what I was doing but I know I’d have fun! This morning I spoke on the radio with Hamish and Tanya from HOT FM 100.7 in Toowoomba. The interview was by phone and is a quick chat on women, food, dieting and emotional eating. It’s nice and short at four minutes long so it won’t take a lot of time for you to listen in while you’re working or pottering

Super Seed & Herb Crackers [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 1, 2015 / Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Super Seed & Herb Crackers Finally! I’ve cracked the code on home made crackers that don’t require a dehydrator! I’ve made so many seed and gluten free, grain free loaves of bread now, that I’ve wanted to finally break our Jatsz cracker habit by creating some kind of delicious and super healthy home made version of crackers that will make a decent amount to last for a while before having to make them again. I like the idea of all the things I can create with a dehydrator, but we don’t have one and I’m not ready to find extra

Cravings, Needs and Desires [VLog]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on March 1, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

What are you really hungry for? Cravings, needs and desires… We all have them, but how often are we actually attending to our cravings, needs and desires? When we don’t feel fulfilled in our lives, these three areas will be left hungry for whatever it is that will fulfil, satisfy and satiate us on a deeper level. Yet, because we aren’t always aware of what we truly crave, need and desire in all areas of our lives, it’s far easier to reach for pleasure inducing foods that give us a short-term feeling of being happy and having what we want.

Beat the Food Designers at their Fat, Sugar, Salt Game

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 27, 2015 / dieting, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Food by Design A food designer’s job description: create the perfect ratio of fat, sugar and salt in a food product to create opiates in the brain and have consumers craving more! Big corporate food organisations rely on these food designers to create great wealth in their companies at an even greater cost to public health. People already restricting themselves on one diet or another especially find these cravings overwhelming. They will often berate themselves and feel like failures, believing they have no willpower or motivation, all because the food they’re eating is designed in such a way to make

Does Eating Stress You Out?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 25, 2015 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Wellness Coaching

Are you a stressed out eater? What kind of eater are you: Fast, medium, slow? I used to be a fast eater – I didn’t know how to eat slow. I lost touch with when I felt hungry and never seemed to stop when I was full. Are you aware when you’re hungry? Do you register when you’re full? Eating is a necessity to sustain energy balance and fuel. But it’s definitely a requirement that is viewed as a chore when we’re busy and too tired or rushed to nourish ourselves. A familiar scenario I often hear from new clients

Uncover your desires for an authentic life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 15, 2015 / Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Wellness Coaching

Uncover how to create an Authentic Life What do you want? Such a question may seem like an innocent enquiry, yet sadly we rarely ask ourselves. Life takes us in so many different directions that we often forget to course correct when we take a wrong turn. When I ask my clients this simple question, I am often met with silence, tears or an invitation to finally let it all out. The blank look on their faces often conveys their confusion: at the fact that someone is genuinely interested, or the realisation that they actually don’t know. The fierce rush

The secret to Visualisation and Creating Change

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 12, 2015 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Wellness Coaching

Visualisation Secret to Create Change Every January millions around the world make New Year’s Resolutions. They have the best of intentions to create change and often convince themselves that this time they’re really going to do it. One small problem: only thinking that you want to make change, is not physically going to create any! You firstly need to write your goals down so you can see them and make them appear real – preferably in big bold letters on colourful paper. You can even decorate a vision board on large cardboard, covered with pictures, symbols, words and drawings that summarise and capture the essence of

Being Grateful at Christmas

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 22, 2014 / Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Wellness Coaching

Be Grateful at Christmas It’s the season of Turkey, trifle and last minute shopping. It’s also a time for giving, receiving and being thankful: a wonderful act of gratitude that I teach my students and clients to do on a daily basis; particularly for those struggling to shift negativity. When our attention is constantly focused on the annoying, unhappy, challenging, or just plain hard aspects of our lives, a low mood and feelings of helplessness can consume us – especially at Christmas time. In this state of mind it’s all too easy to forget that whatever it is, that it will pass.

Healthy Christmas Gift Guide!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 14, 2014 / Gratitude, Holistic Health, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Inspiring Gift Ideas for Christmas! Oh yes! It’s that time of year again! To help inspire you with new wellness education, mind-body relaxation and whole food ideas, I’ve put together this Healthy Christmas Gift and Inspiration Guide with a list of useful tools, products, information and educational ideas to help you start, or expand on, your health and wellness journey. Some resources are mine, and some are from those I use myself and have no issues with recommending to you. There’s so much to learn about health, wellness, holistic living, food, eating, fitness, wellbeing, nutrition and so on! This inspiring Christmas

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 12, 2014 / Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Drink Water, it’s Healthy Do you notice if you’re thirsty right now as you read this? Are you tired, or struggling to stay awake, or concentrate? Water does way more than simply quench our thirst, and yet we often don’t realise the benefits of drinking up. Blood is 83% water. The brain is 74.5% water. It’s fair to say that without enough water being replenished into the blood stream to carry nutrients and oxygen to your cells, regulate your body temperature and nourish your brain, you’d easily start to feel tired, cranky and thirsty. As much as I know myself

Complete a Free Needs Assessment

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 11, 2014 / Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Personal Growth, Positive change, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Assess Your Needs for Better Life Balance Are you like many of my clients – struggling to have it all AND create life balance? Life balance is an interesting term that many people use, especially when they realise that they don’t have any! Defining what life balance means, individually, can be quite difficult without first knowing your own needs and where you’re lacking in fulfilling them. The more stressed out, overwhelmed, exhausted and/or frustrated you feel at not having time for yourself to slow down and re-energise, the greater the disconnect between your mind and body – and your personal needs. I don’t think

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