Relaxation and Stress Management – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food

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

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

Design Your Ideal Morning to Create Your Ideal Life

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 30, 2017 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care

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

Dieting Danger – Food Can’t Fix Feelings

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach 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 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 –

Don’t Diet this Christmas, Do This Instead

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 9, 2016 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food

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

She’s Coming OFF her Anti-Depressant Medication

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach 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! 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

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

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 19, 2016 / Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Self-Care, Stress Management

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.

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

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 14, 2016 / Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive Thinking & Affirmations

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

5 Steps to Manage Stress + Live Facebook Workshop

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 27, 2016 / Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mental-Health, Mindset, Self-Care, Stress Management

5 Steps to Manage Stress Recently I hosted the first of many Live Facebook Video Workshops – this one on Steps to Manage Stress. Learning to better manage stress in our lives is a 5 step process. Here are the steps and some tools to help you: 1/ Develop an understanding of how stress affects us physiologically and psychologically. • Stress Management Diary • Understanding self • Paying attention to self-talk 2/ Learn to recognise the symptoms of stress within our bodies. • Progressive Muscle Relaxation Exercise (PMRE) • Meditation and Mindfulness • Self-awareness 3/ Understand what our

How to Tap into the Power of I AM

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on July 6, 2016 / Benefits of Meditation, Gratitude, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking & Affirmations

THE POWER OF I AM How to tap into the infinite power of these two simple words I love the teachings of Louise Hay and the late Dr Wayne Dyer, who often talked about the significance of the words I AM and how we use them. When I’m teaching my clients or students about the subconscious mind and conditioned thinking, I emphasise the importance of how much power these two little words can have over our entire wellbeing. Read the next two lines and take note of how each makes you feel… I am a good person who is kind, thoughtful and caring

{Podcast} Transformation, Truth & How to Live in the Now

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 30, 2016 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Confidence, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Nutrition, Personal Growth, PODCAST

MINDBODYFOOD PODCAST This week I bring you an inspiring, insightful and delightful conversation about truth, transformation and self-acceptance through yoga, meditation and living in the NOW. The lovely and wise Michelle Hemming is a mother of two beautiful children. She’s also a yoga teacher, lawyer and holistic living enthusiast. Michelle joined me in the studio for a chat about her journey back to wellness. We discussed the last two years and how she deliberately set out to reclaim herself, heal her attachment to past experiences, and the lessons and teachings she’s learned along the way. We talk about: what it means to live consciously how

Manage Stress with Meditation

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on May 20, 2016 / Benefits of Meditation, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset

Manage Stress with Meditation You’ve probably heard a lot of positive things about Meditation like it’s great for stress, heart issues, sleeping, mindful eating, weight control, concentration, healing etc., but maybe you’ve thought: I don’t know where to start I don’t have time for meditation I’m not interested in any religion I’ve tried it before but it didn’t stick, or the style didn’t suit me I don’t know if I’m doing it right [Tweet “There are a lot of reasons why people are discovering meditation but the biggest one is stress.”] I often have new clients and students contact me for medical reasons: “I have

{Podcast} Bust Through Your Mental Blocks + Body Confidence Meditation

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 29, 2016 / Benefits of Meditation, Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive change

MINDBODYFOOD PODCAST Do you struggle with self-sabotaging beliefs? Do you get so far on your health and wellness journey, start to see positive changes, feel like you’re actually making progress and starting to feel more energy, more positivity and even a glimpse of self-love… And then all of a sudden….. something happens that triggers your subconscious mind and you come to a screaming holt, reverting back to old habits of thinking, feeling and behaving?! Maybe you find yourself focusing back on your food: restricting again, cutting foods out.. At the end of the day you might find yourself hungry, but

{Podcast} Self-Care, Cancer & Making Friends with Guilt

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 9, 2016 / Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Lifestyle, Mindset, Personal Growth, PODCAST, Positive change, Self-Care, Self-Esteem, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

NEW MINDBODYFOOD PODCAST SERIES I have an inspiring and awesome new free resource for you, in the form of my brand new MindBodyFood Podcast series. An easily downloadable audio mp3 interview and meditations series you can listen to on the go. Hormones and Self-Care are huge topics for many women, so first up is an honest, practical and very inspiring self-care journey that started with a shock thyroid cancer diagnosis at 23, forcing a high-achieving, people-pleasing music teacher to reassess her life choices and start making herself and her health a priority. This meant learning to make friends with guilt and stop feeling resentful when

What’s Holding You Back?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on February 26, 2016 / Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Self-Care

Have you ever shown up and did something that you weren’t initially sure about – do I know enough, can I pull this off, will I be able to deliver – but then totally surprised yourself by how much fun you had, and how comfortably you took to it when you did? That’s how I feel now after finally stepping up to the plate this year and teaching the yoga portion of the first half of my yoga and meditation classes. I love teaching meditation – I love teaching, connecting and engaging with people in general. But I hadn’t realised just how

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