Speaker 1: Hi, Welcome back to Bounce Forward with me, Tiff Paul.
Speaker 1: I'd like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land
Speaker 1: in which I'm recording this podcast, the WERENDR people of
Speaker 1: the Pooler Nation. I pay my respects to elders past
Speaker 1: and present. Welcome to part two of my chat with
Speaker 1: Celia Pacola. Let's jump straight back into it. I wanted
Speaker 1: to ask you, Celia, about your relationship with health and
Speaker 1: fitness over the years. Yeah. I'm really curious because you're
Speaker 1: on the same season of Dancing with the Stars as
Speaker 1: my husband, and Ed said, no one trained as hard
Speaker 1: as you, and you were so dedicated, and I thought,
Speaker 1: I reckon, she trains every day or something like, what's
Speaker 1: your whole thing about?
Speaker 2: Like now anymore? I miss it? So okay, my body
Speaker 2: changed entirely. I felt like an athlete.
Speaker 3: I loved it.
Speaker 2: I was so fit, but I got injured and I
Speaker 2: got taped up and I had fish was coming to
Speaker 2: give me stuff.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 2: It was the best. I really felt like an athlete.
Speaker 2: But it's and it just made me go, Oh, anyone
Speaker 2: could become a like an action star, you know, and
Speaker 2: you see they'd be like they're like incredible bodies, and
Speaker 2: you're like, yeah, that's someone who gets up every day
Speaker 2: and their whole day is doing that.
Speaker 3: Because that's what it was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: I woke up every day and I danced every day.
Speaker 2: Turns out, doing eight to nine hours of cardio every
Speaker 2: day for three months changes your body. So it was
Speaker 2: absolutely incredible, but obviously not sustainable, I mean, apart from
Speaker 2: anything else. As soon as the season finished, we went
Speaker 2: straight into lockdown, which sucked. So it's the fittest of
Speaker 2: them in my whole life. I had all these new
Speaker 2: outfits that I wore on the couch.
Speaker 3: And you won?
Speaker 1: You won that?
Speaker 3: Oh I won? Yes, yes, you.
Speaker 2: Did ed and I will both contest that Claudia Carbon
Speaker 2: was robbed, but it's our own fault because you didn't
Speaker 2: have an Instagram account.
Speaker 3: That's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you won, you won fair and squares Celia good.
Speaker 3: I think it's like it's like I think you know
Speaker 3: this as well.
Speaker 2: It's like I think I won because I had the
Speaker 2: biggest journey, you know, because I wasn't I'd never done
Speaker 2: anything like it before. I wasn't fit at all, and
Speaker 2: I totally went all in with extra stuff too, like
Speaker 2: setting myself I think I was thirty seven when I
Speaker 2: did the challenge of being able to do the splits.
Speaker 3: By the end, I didn't need to do that. That
Speaker 3: was a ridiculous thing that I just said. I pretty
Speaker 3: much did it. I can't do it anymore, but I
Speaker 3: pretty much did it.
Speaker 2: So I really, for me generally, over my whole life
Speaker 2: of fitness, it's not it's I'm not very good at it,
Speaker 2: but when I have done it, I really like it.
Speaker 3: I went through a period maybe it was after Lockdown
Speaker 3: before no during Lockdown.
Speaker 2: Well hit it's called XO is the place that I
Speaker 2: would go to in Richmond, which is like a forty
Speaker 2: five things, and I loved that. I loved I love
Speaker 2: I need someone. I need to go somewhere and have
Speaker 2: the fitness happen to me. Otherwise it's not it's not
Speaker 2: going to happen. People go, oh, it's so convenient. You
Speaker 2: can have this thing do it at home. And I've
Speaker 2: downloaded and I try them, but I don't. I need
Speaker 2: someone with me. I need to be in a class.
Speaker 2: And I found they were great because they were very
Speaker 2: varied and hard, but with enough rest. I liked them
Speaker 2: a lot like I did those less Mills ones for
Speaker 2: a while as well, but I found them very boring
Speaker 2: after a while. It was very same anyway, So I
Speaker 2: liked that. I liked feeling strong. And then for a
Speaker 2: little while I ran for a while and I really
Speaker 2: enjoyed running. That was when I was dating Dara. There
Speaker 2: is he's going to get the baby okay, because he ran,
Speaker 2: and just to impress him, I ran ten k I
Speaker 2: ran a.
Speaker 3: Half marathon once around the ten just im pretty easy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really liked running, but that's the one thing
Speaker 2: I can't since the baby. My hips have been real bad,
Speaker 2: so I'm not so now I'm doing Now I'm doing pilates,
Speaker 2: which wasn't a thing that I'd ever tried. But basically
Speaker 2: I would like to be more for I really I
Speaker 2: know that it's I feel better when I do it,
Speaker 2: but it's just finding the time.
Speaker 3: It's just finding the keep Celia. It's really fine.
Speaker 2: Well, because it's the easiest thing to It's the same
Speaker 2: with meditation. It's the same with reading a book. It's
Speaker 2: the same with anything that comes down to being stuff
Speaker 2: for you. It's the easiest thing to cancel.
Speaker 3: It is it's so hard. I get it.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned your hips, and you do change physically
Speaker 1: after you have a baby. There's stuff that it's never
Speaker 1: quite the same. But you mentioned mental health. How do
Speaker 1: you look after your mental health? I think that's really
Speaker 1: important for people to understand because you just can't you
Speaker 1: can't give that away because then everything falls apart.
Speaker 3: Well, that's it. That's the thing.
Speaker 2: If you keep doing that, you can do it. You
Speaker 2: can get by for a certain amount of time to
Speaker 2: be like okay, well I'll skip it. You know, someone
Speaker 2: said this, it's about what you do most of the
Speaker 2: time if you can just keep it just mostly I'm
Speaker 2: always doing walking like things that I can do, but
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. But how to look after my
Speaker 2: mental health. Look, there's a lot of different things, which
Speaker 2: is a big thing.
Speaker 3: I will just say.
Speaker 2: I did a documentary called The Truth about Anxiety, which
Speaker 2: is I think on SBS, which is one of the
Speaker 2: things I said when I did it was I wanted
Speaker 2: it to have actual practical stuff in there so people
Speaker 2: would have a look at that.
Speaker 3: But for me personally, like.
Speaker 2: A few things I've accepted, it's something that I have
Speaker 2: to manage because that's when it's gotten the worst is
Speaker 2: when I've gone I'm cured, and then I stopped doing
Speaker 2: all of the things and it gets bad. So it's
Speaker 2: accepting that as much as it sucks, it's always part
Speaker 2: of who I am, and so to be on top
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 3: All the time, even if you're in a pretty good place.
Speaker 2: Yeap.
Speaker 3: A combination physical stuff is really is great as.
Speaker 2: We as we really know, even in even if it's
Speaker 2: not a workout, if you're just feeling terrible, just you know, breathing,
Speaker 2: shoulders back, just doing something physical, cleaning the house, just
Speaker 2: doing something rather than just sitting in it when the
Speaker 2: rumination is bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: A combination of things, talk, therapy, writing things out, but
Speaker 2: trying anything and everything. Something that works for you won't
Speaker 2: work for something else, and something that might have worked
Speaker 2: for you five years ago doesn't necessarily work now. Also,
Speaker 2: family time has been really good for that as well.
Speaker 2: I had no idea what was going to happen to
Speaker 2: me when I had a kid. Mentally, I was really
Speaker 2: expecting postnatal depression, but spoiler, got postontal anxiety.
Speaker 3: Oh it's a real shock.
Speaker 2: I was really expecting to be to dig that because
Speaker 2: I have a history of both.
Speaker 3: But no, it was the intrusive thoughts.
Speaker 2: It was the worst case scenario that they're going to
Speaker 2: be heard, or just like the panic, the panic and
Speaker 2: the mania and the stuff.
Speaker 3: But that's I've got.
Speaker 2: You know, everything's a lot better with that now. But
Speaker 2: I find it's really good for my mental health. Just
Speaker 2: being with her and having play with her and family
Speaker 2: time away from that really does help you be in
Speaker 2: the moment, the same way that exercise does or meditation does.
Speaker 2: It all seems to be about being grounded in the moment,
Speaker 2: and however you can do that, whether that's this is
Speaker 2: also another one where art comes into it, that flow state.
Speaker 2: So it's the same way that you might be distructed
Speaker 2: because you're lifting heavyweights or you're listening to a song
Speaker 2: you're like, or if you're for me, it's writing if
Speaker 2: I'm really in the groove when time goes like that,
Speaker 2: which I think it's just getting in the flow. Whatever
Speaker 2: helps you get there, whether that's painting or drawing, or
Speaker 2: dancing or running or whatever.
Speaker 1: It is such good advice. I haven't heard of that before.
Speaker 1: The flow state.
Speaker 2: Well you know that fifth that what people say, But
Speaker 2: it's that's because that's in thet part of it. In
Speaker 2: the documentary as well as it's like for art therapy,
Speaker 2: it's just getting out of yourself. I also heard this
Speaker 2: other thing on what but the sho I've been trying
Speaker 2: to say to myself is getting out of my own
Speaker 2: way because I have such a loud inner monologue and
Speaker 2: I know it's trying to help. That's another thing. Some
Speaker 2: people have different different ways to approach their their inner voice.
Speaker 2: Like some people like to make it, pretend it's so silly,
Speaker 2: give it a silly name and make it small and
Speaker 2: so you can laugh it off. And that doesn't really
Speaker 2: work for me. I have to try and remind myself
Speaker 2: that it's trying to help. So it's not but it's
Speaker 2: trying to help. And I just try and go, can
Speaker 2: you just get out of my way? If I could
Speaker 2: just get out of my own way, just let's just
Speaker 2: get that, just put it there, because I feel like
Speaker 2: when you try and stop it completely, it just you
Speaker 2: get more upset to just go.
Speaker 3: I see you what you red, I'm not going to
Speaker 3: listen to you. Yeah? Is that a thing?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So my last question.
Speaker 1: Everyone sees you on tally and you're so successful Celia,
Speaker 1: and you're you're like so such a cool girl, Like
Speaker 1: just everyone's cool girl. Everyone wants to be you, and
Speaker 1: you're juggling all the time. So I just wanted to ask,
Speaker 1: how do you juggle it all? You know, you're a mom,
Speaker 1: you're on tally, you're a stand up.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're doing so much. You're writing, you're hosting.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know you just what do you do?
Speaker 3: How do you do? You? You juggle? Like that's I
Speaker 3: think that's really I just get good at well.
Speaker 2: You just you just you just do it because you
Speaker 2: just find a way. It's like before I had a kid,
Speaker 2: I'm like, how are people doing that? And now I
Speaker 2: see people with two kids.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, how are you doing that? And it's
Speaker 3: just because you just do because you just have to.
Speaker 2: I mean, my partner and I you just use all
Speaker 2: of the tools that are available to you. If something's
Speaker 2: generally not going to work, that it wouldn't work, Like
Speaker 2: if if I wouldn't have done thing, God you hear,
Speaker 2: if it wasn't possible, if we couldn't have gone right,
Speaker 2: we look at it and we go, is it possible?
Speaker 2: Can we divide our time? Do we have enough support?
Speaker 2: Do we have enough? Like when we did the first season.
Speaker 2: She wasn't even one, she wasn't in childcare yet. I
Speaker 2: can't I don't know how we did that.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I think we Hey Google, turn on
Speaker 3: the light. It's getting to ducking. You should also watch
Speaker 3: my new stand ups. I haven't filmed yet, but I will.
Speaker 2: I've got an entire a minute material about the fights
Speaker 2: that happened in the house to set up.
Speaker 3: Hey Google, I really have a lot of how issues
Speaker 3: witty Oh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, But I don't know. I just think you rely
Speaker 2: on support. I had a lot of friends. I've got
Speaker 2: a friend who lives up the ride, who has a
Speaker 2: kid who's a year older than mine. She was there,
Speaker 2: she was outside my house in her car being like,
Speaker 2: how are you? And I am just ready to do
Speaker 2: that for the next person in my life who has
Speaker 2: a baby, because before it happens to you, you just don't know,
Speaker 2: Like you'd send a present and they're like, okay, bye, thanks.
Speaker 3: Good luck you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hope you're okay, not knowing how much you
Speaker 2: know I'm to turn up with food or done up
Speaker 2: with that, but yeah, relying on our support network and
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna, you know, in this line of work,
Speaker 2: as well, it's.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm very grateful that work, that I was still able
Speaker 2: to work, that I've come back, you know. That was
Speaker 2: the other thing as well. I had a very hard
Speaker 2: as I'm sure a lot of people do.
Speaker 3: Eight months. The first eight months, I was like, I
Speaker 3: don't know who I am. This is too hard.
Speaker 2: I don't know what my life is going to look
Speaker 2: like from now. I just am so tired and that's
Speaker 2: all I know, and that's all I see. And then
Speaker 2: at about eight months to ten months, I was like,
Speaker 2: it's just started turning a corner and stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you got to get about tough time.
Speaker 1: It is a tough time when you first have the baby.
Speaker 3: But can you tell me things? How are you No,
Speaker 3: I'm boring, You're not boring? You know what are you talking?
Speaker 3: But I'm like, I get fit? How do I manage
Speaker 3: a baby and me champion?
Speaker 1: It is just it is just doing whatever you can
Speaker 1: when you can. And I switch and change from like
Speaker 1: I've got some time, so I'm going to go and
Speaker 1: do a little bit in the gym, or I'm I
Speaker 1: literally run away from my family. Ed goes go, You've
Speaker 1: got half an hour and I run from them and
Speaker 1: I just go for half an hour run and have
Speaker 1: that freedom for half an hour.
Speaker 3: You know, it's just what you can do. I'll be
Speaker 3: doing like three squats in the kitchen. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: count that. I'm like, that counts.
Speaker 1: It does, do it, Celia, there's a little.
Speaker 3: Five minutes, you know, strengthy five minute birth. You know,
Speaker 3: it's not even five minutes. Like if I'm on the
Speaker 3: floor with her, I'm like, oh, just do a glue bridge.
Speaker 3: Is that Cavali?
Speaker 1: That's perfect? He's dancing in the corner.
Speaker 3: Hi, buddy, I just up this podcast. Yeah, I have
Speaker 3: to hello. Can I get some icy col Can's coke? Please?
Speaker 1: Ed? Dela goodom CD, thank you, thank you, you guys
Speaker 1: having a nice time.
Speaker 3: We haven't we're talking so much about you. I can't believe.
Speaker 3: Have you talking about the dancing with the start? Yes,
Speaker 3: we have not that much. I've missed it so much.
Speaker 3: I was so fit.
Speaker 2: I really miss it. I wish I could do eight
Speaker 2: hours of dancing all day every day. Is my job,
Speaker 2: that was our job. I felt like an athlete.
Speaker 3: You were an athlete.
Speaker 1: That's what I told you.
Speaker 3: When you talk to Celia, I tell her she was
Speaker 3: the most dedicated do you remember when I did the
Speaker 3: backflip and the splits? That was ambitious and thanks buddy.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Celia, thank you so much for joining me today
Speaker 1: on Bounce Forward. I've had such a good time speaking
Speaker 1: to you, and thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm message you probably for advice on how yeah my
Speaker 2: fitness also, and thank you for your your you sent
Speaker 2: me because I was like, mane, this is so good
Speaker 2: pregnancy workout clothes. Oh the times which I'm gonna don't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to brace you, but I'm still wearing
Speaker 2: them if I'm not pregnant.
Speaker 3: It's just it's nice to have.
Speaker 1: I wore them for ages after I had the baby.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much for today.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I really appreciate your time. Thank you. Thanks
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Speaker 3: Happy Days,