Easy Healthy Beetroot Dip

Easy Healthy Beetroot Dip

Beets for your Health! You all know I love making my own dips at home, especially hummus! Yum! Here’s an easy, delicious and nutritious little beetroot number to brighten your senses and boost your immune system. Grown in the ground, beetroot has a sweet, earthy and tender taste and is related to turnips, swedes and sugar beet. It’s delicious in salads – hot or cold – to ramp up the colour, variety and nutritional content. You can even use the leaves! Beetroot contains potassium, magnesium, iron, vitamins A, B6 and C, folic acid, carbohydrates, protein, antioxidants and soluble fibre. It’s known to help lower blood pressure and assist heart

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Gluten Free Pizza Base [Recipe]

Gluten Free Pizza Base [Recipe]

Gluten Free Pizza REAL FOODIE FRIDAY! Pizza on a Friday or Saturday night may be the perfect movie or footy companion (especially if you’re gearing up for the AFL grand final this weekend!), but for those of us who struggle with heavy grains, wheat, dairy, bloating and poor digestion, enjoying a pizza is far from pleasurable. It’s surprisingly easy to make a gluten free pizza base recipe at home to decorate with your preferred toppings. You can actually create a tasty meal that’s enjoyable all the way through your digestive tract! This recipe is only four ingredients, easy to combine, and won’t leave you

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Do You Love or Hate Your Body?

Are you in Love or Hate with Your Body? How many times have you looked at your physical reflection and zoned in on the body parts you’re not so fond of, only to begin a barrage of nasty name-calling and judgements in your mind towards it? Our body image is largely dependant on how we FEEL and THINK about our bodies. personal loans lenders for bad credit When we have negative feelings towards our bodies, our mind, mood, confidence, eating choices and behaviour all decline as we focus on those negative feelings, become overcome by them, and eventually feel even more weighed down by what’s

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Healthy GF Orange Poppyseed Muffins with Sweet Caramel Frosting

Healthy GF Orange Poppyseed Muffins with Sweet Caramel Frosting

Who doesn’t love the orange and poppy seed combo! It’s zesty, tasty and in this particular version, healthy and enjoyable to eat! You don’t need flour, milk or refined white sugar to make a delicious and satisfying muffin mix. You simply need a few key nutritional ingredients as substitutes, then you have a gluten-free, paleo, dairy-free, wheat-free and naturally sweetened, with low glycaemic index and nutritionally sound, coconut sugar. (Click here for my Top 5 Natural Sweeteners!) Let’s get baking! V xo Gluten Free Orange Poppyseed Muffins Dry Ingredients: 2 cups almond meal 1/2 cup coconut sugar or rapadura sugar 1 Tbsp poppy

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What is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT?

What is Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT?

Emotional Freedom Technique history pioneer services have Tapping your way to health, success, wealth and happiness… What is EFT? If you have negative emotions creating roadblocks in your efforts to create change, feel happier, get fitter, be successful, find love, accept yourself, be more, do more, feel more, have more… you have nothing to lose and everything to gain from trying EFT. It’s quick, painless and easy to learn. Sequences are tailored to your individual fears, limiting beliefs and personal mental and emotional blocks. It’s a meridian based therapy focusing on releasing blocked energy within the body to return the flow of  health,

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Stress Kills! Find Your Triggers and Take Action!

Identify Stress Triggers & Take Action Throughout my work with individuals and groups as a Meditation and Stress Therapist, I see first hand how little the general public are aware of the physical symptoms of their stress. This is such a terrible shame seeing as stress is the number ONE underlying cause of ALL modern illness and disease! SHOCKING! Stress has become the go-to word to describe a myriad of emotions, feelings and situations in our lives. How many times have you heard someone say: “I’m too stressed to deal with this” “I’m so stressed out” “Life is really stressful at the moment” How many

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NEW Meditation Term & Stress Management Classes in Toowoomba

NEW Meditation Term & Stress Management Classes in Toowoomba

Weekly Meditation Term 3 Monday 15th July to Monday 16th Sept (10wks) One Whole Hour of Quiet, Calm, Peace & Happiness! Breathe, relax, feel safe, let go. Learn more about your Self, your stress and your strengths…  BOOKINGS REQUIRED! Regular weekly classes incorporate various styles and traditions of meditation for relaxation, breathing, stress management, pain management, healing, confidence, visualisation, self-esteem and affirmations to deepen your practice and connection to self, and reinforce your learning with regularity, greater insight and promotion of the relaxation response. Meditation is a wonderful practice in mind-body awareness, self-connection and emotional healing. Classes are 1 Hour duration and

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July Toowoomba Meditation Course, Classes & Chocolate Workshop

July Toowoomba Meditation Course, Classes & Chocolate Workshop

Time to LET GO of your STRESS, FRUSTRATION, OVER-REACTIVE tendencies, and sleep better, feel calmer, think clearly and love more freely! My next 6 Week Basic Meditation for Stress Management Course begins on Tuesday 23rd July until Tuesday 27th August. 6pm to 7.30pm. Each course includes a personalised folder with weekly handouts and the use of essential oils to enhance your meditation practice and relaxation benefits. Muscle relaxation, breathing and stretching techniques are also taught in a safe, comfortable and supportive environment. For more information and to book your place CLICK HERE! or contact me directly via viki@mindbodyfood.net or 0410 60

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Clean Eating Raw Vegan Paleo Citrus Cheesecake Recipe

Clean Eating Raw Vegan Paleo Citrus Cheesecake Recipe

Citrus Cheesecake Recipe Vegan, Raw, Paleo, Clean-eating, Dairy-free, Gluten-free, Naturally Sweetened, Unprocessed, Unrefined (**Next Raw Cacao Easy Chocolate Delights Workshop Saturday 20th July, 12pm-3pm. Details Below!) I’ve been creating in the MindBodyFood test kitchen again! This time I came up with a delicious healthy version of a classic cheesecake and tart flavour: Citrus! It’s completely unrefined and unprocessed, and contains nutrient dense substitutes for high fat, sugar and salt additives and ingredients that you’ll readily find in most store bought cheesecakes. This cheesecake is dairy free, gluten free and wheat free! It’s vegan and paleo approved but most of all,

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Awaken to Your Inner Silence

Monday Inspiration! Meditation expands self-awareness and is a tool for the re-discovery of our body’s own inner intelligence. Practiced for thousands of years, it’s not about forcing the mind to be quiet, it’s finding the silence that’s already there and making it a part of your life. Silence is the birthplace of happiness, creativity, and infinite possibilities. From this field of pure potentiality we get our bursts of inspiration, our most intuitive thoughts, and our deepest sense of connection to the universe. Practicing meditation on a daily basis allows you to weave silence and stillness into your mind and body to

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How To Make Brown Rice Chocolate Puffs – Video Recipe!

How To Make Brown Rice Chocolate Puffs - Video Recipe!

Dark Chocolate Brown Rice Puff Bites! Oh Yeah! These little beauties are SO easy to make! Thick, creamy and delicious and packed full of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and enzymes. Bonus – the kids will love them to satisfy sweet cravings without the loaded refined sugar. Watch me make this recipe on YouTube and tell you about the benefits as I go!   Brown Rice Puff Bites 3/4 cup of organic virgin coconut oil (Can add up to 1 cup for creaminess) 1 1/2 cups raw cacao powder 1Tb mesquite powder 1 tsp cinnamon powder 1 pinch of pink 4-5 Tbsp

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Hormones & Hypothyroidism – NEW Video Interview!

Hormones & Hypothyroidism - NEW Video Interview!

Hormones & Hypothyroidism… A Woman’s Story Hi! I’m SO excited to share this video with you! There are so many messages and insights in this interview! It’s a moving and inspirational story of how one woman on the brink of suicide, with very little support around her, dared to question her medical diagnoses, search for answers in alternative therapy, and heal her hormones to save her life! Meet Barb Free as we discuss her story and wellness journey, and how she now helps others to seek answers for themselves on their journey to wellbeing and healing. WATCH NOW HERE! * And please make sure to take

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Love and Acceptance: reconnecting to self

Reconnect With The Simple Things Last week I was on a working holiday at the Sunshine Coast recording my “Healing Your Digestive Issues” video interview for MindBodyFood TV. Although it rained for the majority of the time, we still found a small window of sunshine to walk in whilst wetting our feet down at the beach. It was fortunate that the last night we were there, we could take the opportunity to walk along the beach, breathe in the salt air, cleans our nostrils and lungs with the freshness of nature and scrunch our toes in the sand as we

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Heal Your Digestive Issues – Viki Thondley Interviews Scott Mathias

Heal Your Digestive Issues - Viki Thondley Interviews Scott Mathias

  Do YOU suffer from reflux, hypothyroidism, eating disorders, heartburn, bloating, low energy, emotional and/or depressive issues?     Watch my interview with Scott Mathias, Digestive Health Specialist, Raw Food Chef, and author of “Understanding the Devine Gut”. We delve into the CAUSE of a wide variety of upset, illness and disease within the body when digestion is poor and not working properly. FASCINATING and HIGHLY INFORMATIVE interview! credit repair company WATCH IT NOW!  

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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!

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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