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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

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

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

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

{Podcast Video} Abuse and Body Image – Emerging from Past Pain

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on January 20, 2017 / Body Image, Confidence, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Holistic Health, Mental-Health, Personal Growth, PODCAST

PODCAST: Abuse and Body Image Emerge from Past Pain & Reclaim Your Life There are many different types of abuse. It can come from the self or it can come from others but all forms of abuse are painful. What happens when the abuse from another turns into excessive abuse towards yourself in the form of punishing, destructive and sabotaging exercise and eating behaviours? In this brand new podcast video I invited Elena Terziyska from EAT Nutrition to talk – for the first time in public – about her experience of remembering her childhood sexual abuse and how that fuelled her body

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 –

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 23, 2016 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

Healthy Chocolate Panforte Recipe Perfect for Christmas! Panforte is traditionally an Italian cake containing fruit and nuts. So more or less, it’s kind of like a fruitcake – dense, moist, fruity. It originated in the Tuscan city of Siena somewhere around the thirteenth century. Here I’ve made a healthy version that doesn’t miss out on any of the traditional flavours, certainly has the dense quality but with a lighter feel in the tummy. My healthy christmas panforte recipe is also gluten free, dairy free and refined sugar free. It’s the perfect healthy recipe for christmas! There’s minimal liquid sweetener

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,

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