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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

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

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

On Behalf of Your body, PLEASE do This

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on April 13, 2017 / Body Image, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Mindset, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching

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

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} The Cost of Staying Stuck

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach 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

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

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

3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 21, 2016 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

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,

3 Keys to Cultivate Self-Love {Podcast}

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 19, 2016 / dieting, Gratitude, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, PODCAST, Positive change

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

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

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