2018 – Viki Thondley | Mind Body Food | Depression, Stress, Eating Disorders

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

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 8, 2018 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health

Stop Dieting and Trust Your Body Wisdom Instead Balanced Healthy Eating Have you had a moment of panic about your weight since Christmas? Have you denied yourself food in an effort to reduce your weight? Many people rinse and repeat their health goals every January (to get healthy and lose weight) and force themselves back onto a new or old diet because they’re still stuck in the dieting mindset. Instead of healthy balanced eating, they choose the all or nothing approach and begin down a path of following a ‘way’ of eating that may not actually work for their unique

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