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

11/10/2026

✨My Strength Training Program has been documented…

📣This started up some conversations…
🧠And there were inquisitive minds…
🤔So this got me thinking…
💡Time to share my knowledge and journey face
to face…

✨Transforming your strength by joining a four
week workshop.
✨The foundations of this course is based upon
Acceptance and Commitment Training(ACT)a
behavioural based psychological model
solidly backed up by science.
✨Incorporating ACT into your strength training
can enhance not only your exercise
performance, but it can ensure your
commitment and progress are enduring,
satisfying and life-changing.

28/09/2026

✨STRENGTH JOURNEY PART 26 ✨
“The Not Good Enough Story”

Once upon a time, before my Acceptance and Therapy sessions, I was told that…
“ YOU ARE NOT EDUCATED ENOUGH TO DO
WHAT YOU DO”

And by another…
“TONE DOWN- YOU ARE TOO MUCH”

This hit hard… for years…
Two comments.

I then went ‘quiet’ for years…
Took the safe options…
Held back my wisdom…
Made sure people liked me…
Peddled safely in my business…

Became governed by “The Not Good Enough Story” and the rules I had to ‘obey’.

Continued to hold back in my…
* ideas
* originality and
* visions

But then along came Acceptance and Commitment Therapy…

Steering me towards…
* self- compassion
* values work
* opening up and making room for my discomfort
* unhooking from self- judgements and rules

So with courage, confidence and authenticity, I continue to be the person I want to be and do the things that make life better in the long term.

▶️Watch this space for an exciting announcement coming up soon!

24/09/2026

✨STUDIO HAPPENINGS ✨

🚀 There has been an extreme busyness behind
the scenes at Fleurieu Pilates…
▶️ Ongoing commitments with
South Adelaide Football Club 2026/27.
▶️Helen finishing off further study of
Acceptance & Commitment Training
Fleurieu ACT
▶️Helen finished extra studies re the pelvic
floor and weight training.
▶️Helen putting the finishing touches on
a major new announcement coming soon.

AND… amongst all that…
🏋️‍♂️Helen connecting with her values daily so as
to continue her weight training journey.
⌛️At times, this has all been very challenging
and at times a somewhat isolating time, as
self- employment can have its issues.
😊But, utilising my Fleurieu ACT skills daily,
often hourly(!) is helping me towards my
behavioural goals…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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.

Address

Factory 9, Cnr Hill Street & Waterport Rd
Port Elliot, SA
5212

Opening Hours

Monday	7am - 7pm
Tuesday	7am - 7pm
Wednesday	7am - 7pm
Thursday	7am - 7pm
Friday	7am - 7pm
Saturday	8am - 11am

Website

http://www.fleurieupilates.com.au/

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