HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

By on June 2, 2013   /   Eating Disorders, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Positive change, Positive Psychology  
HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN!

HOW You Eat is Just As Important As WHAT You Eat and WHEN! Many of you have heard me talk about food designers before. They have the task of creating the perfect ratio of fat, sugar and salt in a food product that will create opiates in the brain to have you craving more! People already restricting themselves find these cravings overwhelming and will often berate themselves and feel like failures, believing they have no willpower or motivation. This often leads to comfort or emotional eating, which of course is only feeding the cravings. People try so hard to eat healthy,

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Watch my MindBodyFood TV interview on Managing Stress

By on April 26, 2013   /   Benefits of Meditation, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Personal Training, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching  
Watch my MindBodyFood TV interview on Managing Stress

Stress-related Conditions CAN Happen To Anyone No matter who you are or what you do for a living, we all experience a degree of stress. Are you feeling down, anxious, tired, overwhelmed.. everyday, ordinary people can easily be overcome by prolonged stress when we ignore the signs and symptoms from our own body and mood. What can you do about it to help yourself and manage your stress before it leads to stress-related conditions, illness and disease? Take a 15 minute break to watch this interesting and humble interview with Steve Lynes, Owner of Fitness Works Gym in Toowoomba, to learn ways to identify your own levels of stress, and

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Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

By on April 21, 2013   /   Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Gratitude, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management, Wellness Coaching  
Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today

  “Stress contributes to 90% of the diseases we suffer from today.” ~ Dr Bruce Lipton (Developmental Biologist) This quote and medical fact is the reason I spend so much time educating my students and clients about the Stress Response and how it affects their mind, body and spirit on a daily basis. Meditation promotes the Relaxation Response and is one of the best antidotes to stress there is. Meditation is an achievable and beautiful pathway to self-awareness, inner peace and stressing less for healing and health. The Term 2 Monday Evening Weekly class began last week and has grown 3 times the size since

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Deep Breathing for Stress Management

By on April 1, 2013   /   Benefits of Meditation, Confidence, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Meditation, Mental-Health, Mindset, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Care, Stress Management  
Deep Breathing for Stress Management

Breathe Your Way to Relaxation Your breath is vital for your health, healing and well-being. We so often don’t even notice our own breath even though it is the reason we sustain life. want credit Below is a quote from Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, pioneer of MBSR – Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. He has a wonderful way of explaining your breath and why it’s so important: “Take the breath, for instance. We take it so much for granted. Unless, that is, you have a bad cold or can’t breathe. Then all of a sudden, the breath may become the only thing

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5 Steps for Creating Change

By on November 26, 2012   /   Confidence, Holistic Health, Inner-Strength, Passion & Purpose, Personal Growth, Positive change, Positive Psychology, Positive Thinking & Affirmations, Self-Esteem, Wellness Coaching  
5 Steps for Creating Change

5 Steps for Creating Change To first create change you must know what you want to be different: This is where you are… this is where you want to be. Visualisation is a powerful tool that can impact your subconscious mind when practised regularly. Take a few minutes to breathe slowly, deeply and naturally. Settle your breathing into a natural rhythm and just focus on your breathing. Once your thoughts and breathing settle, visualise your life how you want to be living it: use images, feelings and emotions. Make it as real as you can in your minds’ eye… See

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