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

Releasing Toxic Emotional Weight - Why It's Not Always About Food

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

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Why You Are Not Your Eating Disorder

Why You Are Not Your Eating Disorder

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

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

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

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

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Goodbye Louise Hay… Queen of Affirmations

Goodbye Louise Hay... Queen of Affirmations

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

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Change Your Beliefs & Rewire Your Brain – YOU ARE ENOUGH

Change Your Beliefs & Rewire Your Brain - YOU ARE ENOUGH

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

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On Behalf of Your body, PLEASE do This

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

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

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} The Cost of Staying Stuck

{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

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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Dieting Danger – Food Can’t Fix Feelings

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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3 Steps to Embrace Your Body Now

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}

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

{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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Break Free of Fearing Food

Break Free of Fearing Food

Break FREE of Fearing Food   Going out to eat used to always be an anxiety-inducing routine of worrying what I’d wear to hide my body, who would be there scrutinising my body, and what food was on the menu that would put fat on my body. I’d study the menu prior to arriving so it would reduce the panic time in front of my friends, delaying everyone’s orders. The extra eyes on me only fuelled my anxiety and generally resulted in me ordering something I didn’t really want so that I’d spend the entire time waiting for the dish, worrying about if I made

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