Fleurieu Pilates

Fleurieu Pilates Breath, balance, flexibility and strength for both the mind and body, located in picturesque Port El

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 25✨PSYCHOLOGICAL SMOG…JUDGEMENTS my mind will never stop saying…about myself, and on just about a...
10/09/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 25✨
PSYCHOLOGICAL SMOG…

JUDGEMENTS my mind will never stop saying…about myself, and on just about anything else!

“This weight lifting is going to get boring.”
“Have to do this for the rest of my life?????”
“This is a time waster… can’t feel and see my
bones get stronger( next scan due Jan 2027)
“Summer will be hot so won’t do it as often”
“I will have no time in the busy trade period”

🧠Thoughts such as these can lead me wandering around in a brain fog…
🧠Absorbed in all my thoughts…
🧠Fused with my thoughts…
🧠Believing that these thoughts are the truth!

And in doing so, potentially allowing my thoughts to pull me out of my strength training program…

😊Thank goodness for the skills Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers so that I can get back on track and continue my values- infused work…

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 24✨“The Not Good Enough” story…🧠My mind loves telling me stories… namely about myself…🧠My m...
05/09/2026

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 24✨

“The Not Good Enough” story…
🧠My mind loves telling me stories… namely
about myself…

🧠My mind loves to grab my attention with
comments such as…
“I’ll screw it up”
“Everybody else does the movements better”
“I’m pathetic”
“No one cares to hear about this journey.”

AND the BIG ONE…
“I’m an imposter”
My hypercritical mind reminds me that “I don’t know how to lift weights, yet alone share my journey “…

So instead of paying attention to executing the exercises in a mindful way, holding the kettlebell safely, being aware of my pelvic floor in conjunction with the breath, sustaining the sets and reps, increasing the weights…
📣My mind instead tells me “you don’t know what you are doing”

😊For thank goodness I have the ability to draw upon the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy skills to UNHOOK from such thoughts…
💪🏼So that I can continue to…
* Act effectively guided by my values.
* Be the sort of person I want to be.
* Live the sort of life I want to live.
And
* Increase my bone density.

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 23✨✨Expect my mind to interfere with this program.As soon as we are exposed to a challenging tas...
25/08/2026

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 23✨
✨Expect my mind to interfere with this program.

As soon as we are exposed to a challenging task
(Here the task is starting up a strength program)
that brings up anxiety or uncertainty…all sorts of difficult and uncomfortable thoughts will arise…

For example…
“Can’t do this exercise”
“It’s too hard”
“Gotta do it perfectly”
“I’m not ready”
“It won’t work for me”

To name a few…

The up and coming following posts will share some of my common thoughts and how I addressed them…

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 22✨✨The antidote to loneliness…✨✅Connect with what is importance to me in this moment AND cultiv...
17/08/2026

✨STRENGTH TRAINING PART 22✨
✨The antidote to loneliness…✨

✅Connect with what is importance to me in this moment AND cultivate that connection…

1)My program is available to me everyday and I can readily choose when to lift the weights.
My program is simplistic, not time consuming nor confusing or demanding in monetary outlay.

2)My program matters to me… to my bones, my strength and my mindset.

❤️Let us further cultivate this connection through self- compassion.
🤨Afterall…
* Who is really interested in the stories of a 60
year old female lifting weights?
* Life is busy and we all have our daily
schedules and challenges, so who do I
talk to about my success, my setbacks?
* I have no personal trainer to “complain to”
when doing the gruelling reps!

So self- compassion becomes such an important consideration in this journey.
❤️Giving myself back some loving kindness is a good way to start…

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 21 ✨✨LONELINESS ✨One of my hardest challenges to date…Just me, myself and I fronting up daily to ...
12/08/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 21 ✨
✨LONELINESS ✨

One of my hardest challenges to date…
Just me, myself and I fronting up daily to strength train in the Pilates studio…

Loneliness is, in essence, a state of disconnection.
It’s almost akin to when you have a lot going on in your life, and you wake up at 1.00am or 2am or 3am with all manner of scary thought stories churning in your head, or unpleasant feelings whirring throughout your body… and you are alone amidst the darkness…

Scary thoughts often getting traced back to the concept of “The Not Good Enough Story”.
Feelings such as anxiety, frustration and longing fuelling the flight-or fight response.

The following posts will explore how I…
* worked on the antidote to loneliness.
* Defused from the “Not Good Enough Story”
* Opened up to my feelings such as anxiety.
And
* Remained present to continue my weight sets
and reps even during intense discomfort.

☺️Eternally thankful to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy being in my life, for without it, I would have quit my strength training program long time ago…

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 20 ✨✨We would stay out of the grass if we knew there was a brown snake in there”…✨😒Likewise, we w...
03/08/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 20 ✨
✨We would stay out of the grass if we knew there was a brown snake in there”…✨

😒Likewise, we would stay out of our bodies if we know we will experience unpleasant emotions & feelings in there…

😞Setting up a cycle of disconnection,insecurity and vulnerability in our bodies…

😳Take the common emotion of anxiety.
Anxiety is a normal part of our human experience.
Anxiety alerts us to all those things that may hurt or harm us in one way or another…

🫣What is not normal is when anxiety is excessive & stops us from doing the things we want to start doing or continue to do.

“Oh, my pelvic floor is compromised so lifting weights is definitely no good”

“Advice given is any swinging actions are bad, especially with weights (I hear this A LOT!)so I must keep stationary to avoid hurting myself”…

“I’ll hurt my back doing any weights”( I hear this A LOT)

“People will judge me, my form, what I wear, even my weight I employ”

“Starting to lift weights gives me anxiety and I don’t like anxiety, so avoiding weights is one way
to make me feel better”

AND ON AND ON IT GOES…

😊For those hardened by years of avoidance, Fleurieu ACT can offer a new, and uplifting (excuse the pun!) perspective towards your health, vitality and movement programs you are currently doing or want to start up.

✨ROTATIONS✨😃A part of being human!✅Improves mid- back mobility. ✅Helps the lower back and neck.✅Enhances posture.✅Frees ...
29/07/2026

✨ROTATIONS✨

😃A part of being human!
✅Improves mid- back mobility.
✅Helps the lower back and neck.
✅Enhances posture.
✅Frees up your rib cage for the inhale/exhale.
✅Works with the pelvic floor.
✅And on & on the benefits go!

😟But rotations can get a “bad wrap” by some…
🤔Sometimes clients tell us “I’ve been told I am absolutely not allowed to do any sort of rotations!”

😔On the contrary, when we compassionately ask…
* Do you unpack the dishwasher?
* Turn around to grab something behind you.
whilst sitting in the car?
* Garden?
* Sweep the floor?
* Walk?
* Play a sport?

We non-judgmentally point out that all these activities involve rotations to some degree or another…

😃And we can certainly modify your rotational movement using all the Pilates equipment.

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 19.✨Opening up to any discomfort I feel…Life is for BIG emotions…But we are not great at handling...
22/07/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 19.
✨Opening up to any discomfort I feel…

Life is for BIG emotions…
But we are not great at handling our emotions…

Ultimately, we all want to feel good.
No one likes to experience pain & discomfort in our bodies…

So we try hard to escape from our physical bodies…Let’s play the game we all know too well!
Let’s recruit the big players in this psychological game!
Namely…
* avoidance
* distraction
* self-talk
* running away from the discomfort
* trying to get rid of the pain

“Last time I tried this, I hurt my knee, so let’s not increase this weight.”

“I can’t see/feel my bones strengthening, so what’s the point?What’s my weekly measure”

“Really, gotta do this for the rest of my life?Haven’t got the time or resources.I’ll just take the drug”

These recruits can sadly take charge, so that the other players…
* Values
* Behavioural goals
* Unhooking from that incessant self-talk and
* Committed action
take the bench seat.

The strategies we so often employ excessively and rigidly to control our emotions, can get in the way of doing what truly matters to us…thus impairing our quality of life in the long term.

Fortunately Acceptance & Commitment Therapy offers a radically different way to responding to our emotions.

Busy afternoon doing bookwork and preparing for a big presentation on stress, anxiety and their effects on the physical ...
08/07/2026

Busy afternoon doing bookwork and preparing for a big presentation on stress, anxiety and their effects on the physical body and the body’s physiology.

But sometimes such tasks can be…
* tedious and “boring”( think EOFY commitments.)
* demanding of focus & concentration.
AND/OR…
* require a big time frame for completion…

Naturally unwanted thoughts and unpleasant feelings will arise.
Distraction techniques such as use of social media, food & cleaning out & sorting out cupboards may prevail!

At times, some of these distractions used moderately and wisely can help in such situations.

But used excessively, they can create problems.

The same relates to physical pain.
No one likes pain, so we do our best to avoid, escape or get rid of our pain…
Pain relief drugs, positive self talk, meditation, excess physical activity, no physical activity…
Short term… maybe these strategies work… but long term… used excessively and rigidly… there can be long term costs…wasted money, time and energy and negative effects on your health.

Fleurieu ACT offers a whole new perspective towards physical pain.
Combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Pilates fosters a new profound effect upon your health and vitality.
ACT to move!

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 18✨✨Emotions are like the weather…always present, always changing and they are important to us!🤔W...
04/07/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 18✨
✨Emotions are like the weather…always present, always changing and they are important to us!

🤔We can’t control the weather… we don’t even try to…yet we try so hard to control our emotions!

* Experiencing pain?Fine!Stop the strength program, stop moving…take pain killers…

* Don’t like discomfort?Fine!Go do something else of lesser value.

* Fearful of pain?Fine!Just clear all those negative emotions and replace them with positive ones!

* Anticipation discomfort?Fine!Tell yourself you are full of strength and courage and you are capable of anything!

😔And sadly, on it goes…
❓Do these control strategies really work?
❌Sadly no, as these emotional control strategies actually can get in the way of…
* starting
* continuing and
* progressing
any strength training program.

When implementing any important health changes in your life, difficult emotions will constantly surface… knowing how to find a new and more effective way of responding to them is a major key in the success of sustaining this health journey…
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to move!
Fleurieu ACT

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