On Behalf of Your body, PLEASE do This

By on April 13, 2017   /   Body Image, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching  
On Behalf of Your body, PLEASE do This

ON BEHALF OF YOUR BODY, PLEASE DO THIS…. Do you ignore your body’s needs… like the need to eat, to pee, to sleep? Are you often so busy or up in your head that you ‘forget’ your needs, or simply put your needs aside? Let’s be honest – we ALL ignore our needs at some time or another. But when it becomes a regular occurrence, your body is the one that suffers… malnutrition hormonal imbalance discomfort fatigue low energy moodiness weight gain increased stress and strain… and the list goes on. Working WITH your body means listening to its’ inner wisdom

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Believe in Yourself & Follow Your Passion

By on April 13, 2017   /   Confidence, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Mindset, Personal Growth  
Believe in Yourself & Follow Your Passion

Follow Your Passion, Believe in Yourself How often do you take a moment to acknowledge how far you’ve come and give yourself a huge pat on the back for taking a leap forward? I don’t normally blow my own trumpet, but lately I’ve been practising what I encourage my clients and students to do – take a moment to acknowledge my recent achievements and how it’s changed my life for the better. Towards the end of last year I had a big mindset shift. I realised I wasn’t giving myself enough credit for the immense knowledge I’ve accumulated in the last 6

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Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think

By on February 24, 2017   /   Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching  
Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think

Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think One of my favourite pieces of wisdom is: What we think, we create. Literally. Because of my therapeutic holistic approach I spend a lot of time educating my students and clients about epigenetics, neuroscience and neurobiology. We have over 50 trillion cells within our bodies, each one listening intently to the reaction and response of our thinking, as a consequence of our perception. Every cell absorbs this perception – positive or negative, safe or stressful – and will either shrink or expand as a consequence of our thoughts and feelings, whereby creating an internal

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{Podcast} How Dieting Works Against Your Body & What You Can Do to Work With it

By on February 24, 2017   /   Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Nutrition, PODCAST, Wellness Coaching  
{Podcast} How Dieting Works Against Your Body & What You Can Do to Work With it

How Dieting Works Against Your Body and What You Can Do to Work With it Have you been doing EVERYTHING “right” but your body doesn’t seem like it’s doing what you want? Don’t lose faith in it, learn to trust it again so your body can learn to trust YOU again! It’s an interesting concept that most people don’t even consider – that your body might lose trust with you after all your efforts to make it weigh less and feel healthier. The thing is most of these efforts are done without consulting the body. Instead of turning inward, asking

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{Podcast} The Cost of Staying Stuck

By on February 10, 2017   /   Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Wellness Coaching  
{Podcast} The Cost of Staying Stuck

The Cost of Staying Stuck   If you’ve ever tried to reach out for help but at the last minute retreated back into the safety and comfort of what you know – even though it might be painful or uncomfortable – have you ever thought about how much it costs you to stay there? The nature of human behaviour is that we want change, but often are unwilling to do the changing! When I receive an enquiry from someone, they usually send it at a time when they can’t take it anymore. When the pain is too intense, when the discomfort

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Design Your Ideal Morning to Create Your Ideal Life

By on January 30, 2017   /   Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care  
Design Your Ideal Morning to Create Your Ideal Life

Design Your Ideal Morning, Create Your Ideal Life   Many motivation masters and psychologist agree that how you start your morning will set you up for your day ahead. With all the recent focus on starting a fresh year, I think it’s more important to focus on one day at a time, keeping your overall goals in mind, but giving your power and attention to the current moment and asking yourself, What one thing can I think about/do differently today? Putting a little thought into how you’d ideally like to be starting your day, will help you align the focus, energy

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{Podcast Video} Abuse and Body Image – Emerging from Past Pain

By on January 20, 2017   /   Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Personal Growth, PODCAST  
{Podcast Video} Abuse and Body Image - Emerging from Past Pain

PODCAST: Abuse and Body Image Emerge from Past Pain & Reclaim Your Life   There are many different types of abuse. It can come from the self or it can come from others but all forms of abuse are painful. What happens when the abuse from another turns into excessive abuse towards yourself in the form of punishing, destructive and sabotaging exercise and eating behaviours? In this brand new podcast video I invited Elena Terziyska from EAT Nutrition to talk – for the first time in public – about her experience of remembering her childhood sexual abuse and how that fuelled her body

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Dieting Danger – Food Can’t Fix Feelings

By on January 13, 2017   /   dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Nutrition, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching  
Dieting Danger - Food Can't Fix Feelings

DIETING DANGER – Food Can’t Fix Feelings   Have you ever been on a diet? If you’re here at MindBodyFood, you most probably have! In fact, there’s bound to be many of you who have never got OFF the diet wagon because you’re still struggling to feel comfortable in your body (instead of ashamed). Have you recently committed yourself to a ‘new’ diet for the New Year? We so often fall into the trap of believing that if we can control our food and change the way we look, we just might be able to control how we feel. NEWS FLASH –

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Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

By on December 23, 2016   /   Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making  
Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe Perfect for Christmas!   Panforte is traditionally an Italian cake containing fruit and nuts. So more or less, it’s kind of like a fruitcake – dense, moist, fruity. It originated in the Tuscan city of Siena somewhere around the thirteenth century. Here I’ve made a healthy version that doesn’t miss out on any of the traditional flavours, certainly has the dense quality but with a lighter feel in the tummy. My healthy christmas panforte recipe is also gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. It’s the perfect healthy recipe for christmas! There’s minimal liquid sweetener

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Don’t Diet this Christmas, Do This Instead

By on December 9, 2016   /   Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food  
Don't Diet this Christmas, Do This Instead

Instead of Dieting, Bingeing or Restricting this Christmas Try a New Approach… It’s that time of year again when many of us freak out at the abundant supply of festive food that is often on our “forbidden/bad/diet says no” list. Because I have no intention of losing my mind dieting for the next two weeks just so I can let loose on Christmas Day, my lead up is mostly calm, relaxed and peaceful. (I say mostly because I can’t control everything.. and it relieves a lot of unnecessary pressure when you realise that.) Your Christmas can be calm, relaxed and peaceful

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3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

By on November 21, 2016   /   Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching  
3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

Embrace Your Body in 3 Steps, NOW Ready to embrace your body, dump the hate and stop punishing it with endless diets and negative self-talk? Recently I attended the first Toowoomba screening of the new documentary, EMBRACE by Taryn Brumfitt. Hundreds of women, men and children have attended in our region, but after watching, feeling inspired, shedding tears and finding hope… now what? It’s opened a huge pandoras box for so many women who are now wondering, well just HOW do I embrace my body? What do I do? Our bodies are nobody else’s business, yet we constantly allow ourselves to be distracted by comparison,

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3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

By on November 19, 2016   /   dieting, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, PODCAST, Positive change  
3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love PODCAST EPISODE   We all need a little help in how to cultivate self-love, gratitude and a positive mindset. So earlier this week I shared an inspiring talk with Nicole Coggiola, Health & Lifestyle Coach over at the Nourished Goddess. I’ve discovered I really enjoy connecting with like-minded souls around the world and sharing interesting conversations and stories that speak my language. This one dives a little deeper into the importance of the mind and gratitude when making healthy lifestyle changes. Aspects that can’t be ignored when creating inner transformation for outer change. It’s all about being a

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She’s Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication

By on November 7, 2016   /   Confidence, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Stress Management  
She's Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication

She’s Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication! Here’s How….   For those of you experiencing depression, anxiety, isolation or low self-esteem, I want to share this story with you to provide hope for a future you might not yet be able to imagine possible… Last week after teaching a postgraduate course on Autonomic Nervous System Reprogramming to my MindBodyFood Institute Advanced Diploma students, I received this totally unexpected gift of appreciation. The student who gave it to me came to this work after working with me on her self-doubt, insecurities and personal fulfillment. She wanted to feel happier, healthier and create a sense

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How Chronic Stress Impacts Your Long-Term Health [Audio Interview]

By on October 19, 2016   /   Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Self-Care, Stress Management  
How Chronic Stress Impacts Your Long-Term Health [Audio Interview]

Chronic Stress Impacts Your Long-Term Health AUDIO INTERVIEW w/ Alison Palmer   Let’s talk about stress and how chronic stress impacts your long-term health. This year I’ve given multiple audio and video interviews and appeared on several (all different) online summits. It’s so great to connect with like-minded people in different parts of the world and talk about various topics that I love, and help people work through every day, both professionally and personally. We never stop helping others do we?! Stress is always a major topic of conversation, and a big reason why people want to learn meditation and relaxation tools.

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{Podcast} Rewrite Your Life Story with Chris O’Hearn

By on September 14, 2016   /   Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive Thinking & Affirmations  
{Podcast} Rewrite Your Life Story with Chris O'Hearn

MINDBODYFOOD PODCAST How to Rewrite Your Life Story! We all have that one story that we like to tell ourselves or others from our youth. A defining moment that may have felt unfair, painful, hurtful, justified. We’ve often told this story (what may feel like) a thousand times, and maybe that “fish” has gotten bigger every time you tell it! Where do the stories we tell ourselves come from? What decides if we react or respond in any situation? What holds our values and beliefs, and creates our feelings and behaviours? THE THOUGHTS IN OUR MIND. I’m sure you’ve heard that the

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