Beliefit®
My story
Fifty and still at it.
I've never stopped training. Through caring and grief and holding space, through becoming an empty nester and learning boundaries, through meeting perimenopause in my own body, I kept turning up, for my clients and for myself.
Alongside the training, I developed the Soulutions Blueprint, a journey of personal growth, finished my book She Is the Aperture, and created Basic Goddess, an oracle card deck and living journal app.
That's what this work really is: endurance. Chop wood, carry water: we never escape the need to be in right relationship with our bodies.
When I started Beliefit twenty years ago, mind-body training was called woo, and I was judged for being different. Now it's everywhere. I was early then, and I think I'm early again, this time for solid foundations, safety, progression and self-love. Accepting yourself as you are, and still growing.
There was a time when I thought about stepping back from personal training, to put more of my energy into hypnotherapy and the Soulutions Blueprint, which I'm still doing and love. Supporting my dad changed my mind.
For the past two years he's needed complex, ongoing care through this life transition. Again and again he's rallied, finding new ways to climb steps and use whatever's around him as leverage to keep moving. Witnessing his inner resilience and resourcefulness, and the way he keeps asking his body to carry on, reminded me why I started Beliefit in the first place: to harmonise mind and body. That hasn't changed, and it matters at every age.
Now I know where my staying power comes from. Add Mum's humility and her gift for holding space, and I know I'm exactly where I'm meant to be. So yes, I'm still running sessions.
For me, this work is about longevity: arriving at old age with your body still working for you. Getting up off the floor, carrying the shopping, climbing the steps, keeping your balance. It means harmonising discipline with self-love, and discovering joy in the process. The twelve-week program is where you learn it, but there's no finish line. What you learn, you keep using for life.
Here I am, excited about the possibilities in my own backyard. You're welcome to join me.
Terryl
Qualifications
- Clinical hypnotherapist, registered with the Australian Hypnotherapists' Association (AHA)
- Associate Degree in Hypno-Psychotherapy, ICHP
- Level 3 registered exercise professional with AUSactive (formerly Fitness Australia)
- Twenty years of personal training as Beliefit