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Change Is a Process, Don’t Skip the Most Important Part

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 29, 2018 / Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Self-Esteem, Stress Management

Don’t Skip the Most Important Part of Change Most people find change hard, particularly without any support or guidance. But the most difficulty about change is when you’re not taking the right action to help yourself create the change you want. Change requires our willingness to think, say and do things differently. This means trying new things and being willing to undertake tasks that you’ve never done before, such as finding reasons why you can try something new, instead of why you can’t. Old stories and ways of thinking perpetually create the feelings that we experience on a daily basis,

Releasing Toxic Emotional Weight – Why It’s Not Always About Food

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 23, 2018 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), Self-Care, Stress Management

Releasing Toxic Emotional Weight Why It’s Not Always About Food This week I reached out to a trusted friend and colleague for assistance in reaching a specific issue around my changing weight, that I couldn’t on my own. A few years ago after an emotional rollercoaster with key family members (still not resolved on their behalf), my body began to shift into protective mode (i.e. stress and survival) and my weight started to slowly increase, regardless of my eating and movement not changing – improving actually! Excess weight is often about ‘protection‘. When I became aware of what was happening, I

Why You Are Not Your Eating Disorder

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 14, 2018 / Body Image, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Mental-Health, Rapid Transformational Therapy

Why You are Not Your Eating Disorder ** POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING ** When a new client comes to me with an eating disorder, I always request that they change their language and stop referring to ‘their’ eating disorder as ‘mine’. It becomes ‘the‘ eating disorder, and ‘that‘ mean voice. I love working with Eating Disorders. I know not many in the health and medical professions feel the same. In fact, I’ve had several look me in the eye and state how much they “hate working with eating disorders”. They quickly move them on. Perhaps because they don’t refer to their

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 8, 2018 / Body Image, dieting, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Personal Growth, Wellness Coaching

Set Health, Fitness & Weight Goals That Work With Your Brain & Body Keep you brain in mind when you set health and weight related goals – otherwise they’ll end up as empty promises! Forget resolutions and set meaningful health and fitness goals instead! It will make a world of difference to how you approach change, and take action towards your goals. The KEY is in using the principles of neuroscience so you can create change in a way that your brain will become familiar with by conscious, consistent and intentional action! Get a pen and paper and commit

Make NOW the Right Time to Be Happy, Healthy & Confident

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 5, 2018 / Body Image, Confidence, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth

Be Happy, Healthy & Confident in your Mind, Body & Life… NOW When is the ‘RIGHT’ time to be happier, healthier, more confident and comfortable in your own mind, body and life? What you look for, focus on and decide for yourself… you’ll find. Stop looking for reasons and excuses to sabotage your health and happiness. Start looking for ways and means to create it! Things will never be perfect but they CAN change if you’re willing and ready to do the changing – whether it’s January, Tomorrow or “The diet starts Monday”! Staying stuck and struggling in so

Rewrite Your Life Story and Get Unstuck

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 2, 2017 / Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), Wellness Coaching

How to Rewrite Your Life Story and Get Unstuck We all have a story that we tell ourselves about our personality, our temperament, our behaviour, our past, present and future. Often that story is full of hurt, pain, regret, anger or blame from our childhood. Our emotional attachments to outdated stories only serve to keep us stuck in fight or flight (stress), triggered in the present by experiences and memories from the past. They rarely serve you in feeling free, worthy, lovable and enough to move forward in your life and claim your happiness and health. Self-awareness is always the first step

What 48 kilos GONE looks like WITHOUT dieting and in just 12 months!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 15, 2017 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Holistic Health, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)

What 48 Kilos GONE looks like without dieting and in just 12 months! This is what 48 Kilos (106lbs) removed in a year looks like as a result of RTT. Meet my colleague, Colleen Andruszkiewicz, who gave me permission to share this with you. Colleen lives in Ontario, Canada, and is a fellow Rapid Transformational Therapist (RTT). Overnight she shared photos of herself inside our RTT therapy practitioner group – where students and graduates from all over the world come together to share support, insight on various case studies, and ongoing education. It’s my favourite Facebook group because it’s full of other

Goodbye Louise Hay… Queen of Affirmations

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on August 31, 2017 / Holistic Health

Goodbye Louise Hay… Queen of Affirmations And Thank You. This morning I woke early for a 4am masterclass with the chairman of the National & International Council of Psychotherapists in the UK. As the masterclass was starting I read about the passing – transition – of the Queen of affirmations, Louise Hay, at the age of 90 years. My heart skipped a beat… Louise Hay’s transpersonal and metaphysical counselling work has touched the lives of countless people around the world – including me. If you’ve seen the tributes all over social media today, you may note in the comments about how many

Change Your Beliefs & Rewire Your Brain – YOU ARE ENOUGH

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 24, 2017 / Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive change

Change Your Beliefs & Rewire Your Brain YOU ARE ENOUGH! Are you sick of sabotaging yourself? Struggling with Anxiety? Always beating yourself up? Worried about what others will think? Feeling frustrated, helpless and stuck? Have you ever listened to the underlying thoughts creating these feelings? What about the core belief that creates all these critical thoughts?…. In this video I show you a powerful way to be your own best friend and rewrite THE biggest limiting belief that is stopping you from feeling confident, courageous and happy in your own mind and body – in just 5 minutes! #confidence #mindset

Why We Relive Past Stress & Emotions | Understanding Stress & the Brain

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 12, 2017 / Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

Why We Relive Past Stress & Emotions Understanding Stress & the Brain Here’s a brief explanation of the stress response and why we relive past emotions. These short 3 minutes could change the way you think! Some comments people sent me: Shared I can totally relate. My fight or flight is triggered easily which has been the cause of muscle tension and pain in my neck and shoulders for years! I have been gradually working on it using deep breathing and meditation – Emma Beautifully articulated Viki ? Do you mind if I share this clip? – Bec I’d love nothing more

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 12, 2017 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Personal Growth, Positive change, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

How Memories Can Affect Your Digestion Is stress impacting your digestion? Find out how eating either in a stressed or relaxed state affects your ability to digest your food properly in this brief introduction that will make total sense in illuminating your eating behaviours! In this powerful 6 minute video, I share a brief explanation of why we get stressed and relive past emotions when eating. It’s got a lot to do with our nervous system, how our brain processes information, and the individual meaning we attach to past experiences. These short 6 minutes could change your life! (I hope so) Viki Thondley

7 Insightful Questions to Help You Create Real Change

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 26, 2017 / Holistic Health, Personal Growth, Positive change, Wellness Coaching

Create Real Change – 7 Insightful Questions I help people create change – the kind of deep conscious change that alters our subconscious programs and changes our reality from the inside out. There are many ways to go about change, however most people approach it in the WRONG way. They try to force change, change everything all at once, and don’t uncover and confront the BELIEFS in their subconscious about the change they want. With our subconscious in control of 95% of our daily thoughts, it’s quite futile to try and make change without consulting what you believe about what you want, based

Believe in Yourself & Follow Your Passion

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 13, 2017 / Confidence, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Lifestyle, Mindset, Personal Growth

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

Your Body is Listening to Every Thought You Think

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach 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 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

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

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 24, 2017 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Mindset, Nutrition, PODCAST, Wellness Coaching

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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