Dr Carla Atkinson PhD - Remedial Massage and Functional Health

19/10/2025

Do you ever feel like you’re still waiting to feel like a “grown-up”?
Like there’s a calmer, wiser, more grounded version of you that you’re meant to become… but you’re not quite there yet?

I look at others sometimes and think,
“They just seem so mature. So together. So sure of themselves.”
And then quietly wonder,
“When will I finally feel like that?”

But maybe maturity isn’t a destination.
Maybe it’s the awareness I already have while walking through the in-between.

When I catch myself judging, reflecting, apologising, or choosing differently than before - that is maturity.
When I feel frustration rise and still find my way back to presence - that is wisdom.
When I notice the part of me that wants to react, but decide to breathe instead - that is groundedness.

Maybe the only difference between me and those who seem fully embodied
is that they’ve learned to stay present with the wobble -
to hold the middle without rushing to fix it.

Maybe the calm I admire in others
is simply their nervous system having had more time to calibrate to that state of being.
And that’s where I am now - calibrating, integrating, becoming.

I used to think “being there” would feel like calm certainty.
But maybe it feels more like self-honesty.
Like knowing when I’ve lost your centre… and choosing to return to it.

Maybe we never actually “arrive.”
Maybe we just keep coming home to ourselves -
again and again - a little more honestly each time.

And perhaps that truth -
the coming home, the honesty, the softness of return -
is what radiates the calm, grounded presence I recognise as maturity.

19/10/2025

When women choose to do this work, everything begins to shift.

Not just their health - their energy, presence, and connection to themselves.

Here’s what some of my clients have experienced through our work together 💛

From Exhausted to Empowered...

“Before, I felt exhausted and emotionally drained, always trying to meet everyone else’s demands. I lost touch with my own needs.
Now, I listen to what my body and mind need. I'm with more intention, responding thoughtfully rather than reacting out of stress or obligation.
This shift has been transformative.”
— Julie

Clarity in the Chaos...

“You help me decipher all that crap up in my head down to what’s important.
What’s so mumbled and jumbled upstairs feels calmer and grounded.”
— Julie

Confidence in Change...

“I felt lost and scared of this phase of life.
Now I feel more confident, grounded, and connected to who I’m becoming.
I believe I’d still be 'stuck' if it weren’t for this process.”
— Su

Reconnected and Revitalised...

“After my second daughter, I felt depleted no matter what I tried.
Carla’s holistic guidance helped me reconnect with myself and my vitality.
I feel inspired again.”
— Jess

Calm and Grounded...

“The anxiety is gone.
I feel calm. I'm able to sleep.
The sense of urgency has lifted - I’m feeling a lot more grounded.
I'm really good.”
— Em

At Peace in My Own Skin...

"My husband says he’s noticed a real difference - and I have too.
This journey has been so nourishing.
I feel in a really nice spot.”
— Sarah

If you’ve been craving that kind of shift -
from drained to grounded,
from doing to being,
from noise to clarity -
that’s what Radiate from Within is here to help you remember.

🌷 Phase One - Reawaken - begins Thursday 23 October.
Early-bird closes tomorrow (20 Oct).

Six weeks to reconnect, replenish, and reawaken.
Link’s in the comments 💛

17/10/2025

This week, I started to really contemplate the rage I feel when I think things are costing me my time.

The fingerprints on the walls that need cleaning again.
The messing about instead of just getting the thing done.
The repeated reminders before something is finally done.
The last-minute ask from someone.
The dog running in muddy right after I’ve mopped the floor.

Each one seems small - yet the frustration builds.
And underneath it, I notice the same pattern:
When I feel out of control, I grasp for order.
I clean. I straighten. I fix.
Because if everything looks neat, I can pretend everything's good.

But that illusion of control has been my coping mechanism - not my calm.

So I sat with it.
I worked through my frameworks.
I did some ThetaHealing.
And I found the belief sitting at the bottom of it all:

“I haven’t done enough.”

That thought - I haven’t done enough - is what I fear most at the end of my life.
To look back and think I didn’t give it a good shot.
That this one life I was given… I wasted.

Tears flowed.

I think about the people who get their wake-up call through illness or a near-death experience - those moments that shake you awake to how precious life is - and I ask myself:
Why does it take something big to make us live differently?

That fear of dying with potential left inside me?
That’s my power, distorted by urgency.
It’s not telling me “Hurry up.”
It’s whispering, “Wake up to what already exists inside you.”

Extraordinary doesn’t always look like more output.
Sometimes it looks like radical trust - that I can rest and still rise.

The people who get their wake-up call through crisis - that’s their soul’s chosen path to alignment.
Mine doesn’t have to come through collapse.
But if I keep overriding my body, my nervous system, my needs - I’m flirting with the same lesson, just slower.

Right now, life keeps sending me disorder because my soul is ready to expand beyond the illusion that safety = control.

I’m being initiated into a new calibration:

Safety = surrender + self-trust.

Control says, “If I manage everything, I’ll be okay.”
Trust says, “Even when it’s messy, I’m okay.”

I’m not meant to control it all.
I’m meant to feel safe - radiant, even - amidst the mess.
Order doesn’t create safety.
My presence does.

“I haven’t done enough” is the ego’s favourite trap for heart-led women.
It sounds noble, but underneath it’s just fear disguised as purpose.

You could do ten lifetimes’ worth of work and that voice would still whisper,

“You could have done more.”

Because it isn’t talking about productivity.
It’s talking about aliveness.

We’re not actually afraid of doing too little -
We’re afraid of not fully living while we’re here.

That’s why we clean, organise, plan, optimise -
Every little action feels like a micro-insurance policy against the fear of “wasting” our life.

But life sends chaos not to punish us,
but to break our addiction to measurement.

I’m learning that “enough” isn’t something I achieve - it’s a state I choose.

When I can look at a muddy floor, a loud house, unfinished work and say,

“Even this is part of my full life,”
the fear loses its grip.

I’m learning to hold success, motherhood, mess, emotion, and ambition - all at once - without fracturing.

I didn’t come here to finish something.
I came here to experience something - love, creation, connection, expression.

I used to believe,

“If I lose time, I won’t do enough.
If I don’t do enough, I’ll fail at this life.”

But now I see -
It’s not time that’s being taken from me.
It’s presence.

You can’t run out of time in a moment you’re fully in.
You only lose time when you leave yourself - when you mentally skip ahead to the next checkbox, the next version of “enough.”

Every breath I take is life being lived - not life being lost.
I no longer measure my worth by how much I do or how quickly I do it.

I choose to experience my life, not race through it.

This is the kind of inner work I do for myself — and it’s the same work I guide my clients through inside Radiate from Within.

We begin next week (23rd Oct), and early-bird enrolment ends in two days (20th Oct).

If you feel called to do this work - to find peace, energy, and presence amidst the mess - you can find all the details at the link in the comments.

I’d love to walk this path of radiance with you ✨

16/10/2025

Maybe you tell yourself, “I know what to do - I just don’t do it.”

Maybe you’ve been trying to think your way to change - to “get it together,” to fix what feels off.

But what if it’s not about doing more?

What if it’s about coming home to the part of you that already knows…
the part that doesn’t need to perform, prove, or perfect - only to remember?

That’s what my BEE Yourself framework helps you do.

It makes embodiment measurable - not through rules or checklists, but through awareness.

You begin to see and feel the difference between living from your true self and your survival self.

You stop asking, “What’s wrong with me?”
and start asking, “Which part of me am I living from right now?”

That shift alone dismantles shame, perfectionism, and self-sabotage - and replaces them with compassion, clarity, and consistent forward movement.

Whenever you feel stuck, anxious, depleted, or reactive,
use this framework as a gentle recalibration:

BODY — Behaviour & Expression
→ The way you move, act, and nourish yourself in the physical world.
Ask:
Is my body supported? (food, rest, movement, routine)
What am I doing to feel nourished and grounded?

ENERGY — Mindset & Emotions
→ The quality of your thoughts, focus, and emotional presence.
Ask:
Where is my energy going? (worry, control, people-pleasing, over-efforting)
What am I thinking and allowing into my field?

ESSENCE — Spirit & Frequency
→ The vibration you carry - who you are when you’re aligned, peaceful, and true.
Ask:
Am I in my essence? (presence, trust, love, self-worth, connection)
How am I embodying my truth and joy?

These questions bring pause, perspective, and restoration -
instantly softening your nervous system and reconnecting you with your power.

Use it weekly or monthly as a mirror to bring yourself back to awareness instead of judgement.

This framework forms the foundation of Reawaken,
Phase One of the Radiate from Within experience.

We start next week (23rd October).
✨ Early-bird ends Sunday (20th October).

If you’re ready to stop spiralling and start moving forward -
to finally feel grounded, clear, and connected again -
I’d love to welcome you inside. 💛

Details are in the comments section.

15/10/2025

I finally figured if I could replace the missing ingredients from all the depletion…
From the anorexia, where I didn't nourish my body.
From the overtraining, where I overworked my body.
From the parasites that took from my body.
From a twin pregnancy and birth that took more of my resources.

If I could restore my body from the foundations -
from the mineral foundations my body needs to function.
If I could heal my gut and eat in a truly nourishing way.
If I could quiet the mindset, the judgements, the self-criticism,
the constant stressing over what others thought of me.

If I could find confidence and pride in who I am and what I stand for -
and accept that there will always be differing opinions,
but they mean nothing about my worth.

Then maybe I could find myself.
Love myself.
Feel what I’d been searching for all along -
fulfilment, peace, true happiness.
And so this has been my path -
to journey back to myself.

These are the things that have completely shifted the way I live,
how I feel,
how I see my life,
and how I connect with the people I love - my husband, my children, my family, my friends.

There are times I feel myself slipping backwards.
It's still ever evolving journey of layers.
I'm always learning.

I am a 1-line in human design - always seeking the knowledge.
But I'm also a 3-line.
I learn through trial, through error.
I learn through going through it - and coming out the other side.

This is what's shaped my work, and how I support women that know that there's more for them…
more happiness,
more joy,
more energy,
more light in life.

Through replenishing and healing the body’s resources,
working with the mind and emotions that shape our experience,
and tending to the energetics that evolve the soul -
we discover the answers were never out there.

We come back to the foundations,
To the roots,
To ourselves,
To our truth.

Quieting the noise of a world shouting who we should be.
We find ourselves.
We connect with our light.
Our radiance.
And reawaken.

We start October 23rd.
You’ll know if this is for you.

Details are in the comments section.

14/10/2025

That split between the woman you are
and the woman you sense you could be.

You know there’s more for you -
but how do you get there?

Life looks pretty great on paper…
so why does something still feel like it’s missing?

In Radiate from Within, we strip back the noise -
the overwhelm, the self-doubt, the pressure to keep pushing -
and help you reconnect with what truly fuels you physically, mentally, and spiritually.

You’re not given another protocol.
You’re guided back to your light.

Because when you’re in alignment with your energy and truth,
life feels different.
It flows. It expands.
It radiates.

Phase One - Reawaken - begins Thursday 23rd October.
Early-bird until 20th October.

If you feel called to reawaken that spark inside of you,
I can’t wait to welcome you in
Details in the comments 💛

13/10/2025

During August’s Lion’s Gate Portal, I felt a shift coming -
not in what I do, but in how I’m meant to serve.

Over the past few years, I’ve worked with women in deep six-month containers - meeting weekly, working through the fatigue, hormones, and stress that so many women carry - and uncovering the deeper patterns influencing their energy, emotions, and sense of self.

I noticed something beautiful:
Many calls would begin with “I don’t really have much to talk about today,” and end with so much insight.

And week after week, I see how powerful it is simply to have that space held - to be met where you are, and to gain a new perspective.

But I’ve also felt this inner knowing: to bring women together.

In every mastermind and circle I’ve been part of,
I’ve seen the profound healing that happens when women come together - when we see ourselves in one another and realise we were never behind, only human.

When someone’s breakthrough unlocks our own,
and our truth becomes medicine for someone else.

That’s how the new evolution of Radiate from Within was born.

A hybrid experience that blends the intimacy of 1:1 coaching
with the power, perspective, and momentum of a group.

You don’t have to choose between personal depth and collective energy - you get both.

A three-phase journey to become truly Radiant from Within - in body, mind, and spirit - travelled as a full journey with exclusive bonuses, or one phase at a time as called.

Phase One – Reawaken - begins Thursday 23 October.
Six weeks to remember, reconnect, release, replenish, reframe, and reawaken.

If you’ve been feeling that quiet pull for more -
to soften the noise, honour your truth, and return to your own rhythm - this is your invitation.

You’ll find the link in the comments.
Early-bird is open until 20 Oct

At the centre of everything there is light -
and you are that light. 🤍

10/10/2025

The symbol in my logo - the Merkaba Prana Sphere.
It’s not just a design.
It was channelled for me, first as a symbol of protection…
and only later did I realise how deeply it embodied the essence of my work.

The Merkaba is known as the light-body vehicle - a geometry of transformation and illumination.

The Prana Sphere represents the breath of life - vitality, connection, and the eternal movement of energy.

Together, they speak to self-generating light.
To the radiance that expands outward when we’re connected inward.
To the remembrance that our energy isn’t something we find - it’s something we are.

The Merkaba Prana Sphere reminds us that life force moves through and around us in a continual rhythm.

It doesn’t need to be forced, fixed, or directed from outside.

And this is how I see women’s vitality.

We’re not meant to look outside ourselves for the next thing to fix or the formula to follow.

We’re here to listen - to understand, to move with the wisdom already within.

Radiance isn’t something to get.
It’s something to be.

My work has become so much more than protocols or mindset.

It’s about:
Reconnecting you to your body’s rhythm.
Peeling back the layers of stress, survival, and conditioning.

Remembering the language of your own energy - so you can live with presence, clarity, and quiet power.

I don’t guide women to repair themselves.
I hold space for them to remember themselves.

Because healing isn’t something to push toward.
It’s what naturally unfolds when you come home to your truth -
when your body, mind, and spirit finally exhale into coherence.

The Merkaba Prana Sphere isn’t just my logo.
It’s a mirror - a reminder that your light has never left you.
It may be covered by the layers you’ve worn to survive,
but it’s still there, steady and self-sustaining.

When you reconnect with it, vitality rises, clarity returns,
and your radiance expands - from the inside out.

This is the essence of my new offering, Reawaken, opening later this month.
A journey to remember what was never lost.

09/10/2025

I used to find it super hard to slow down.
My bum would hit the couch and I’d bounce back up again off to do something else.
I used to think it was just me being productive and living life.
“I get things done.”

Podcasts on every walk.
Non-fiction, never novels.
Webinars, not TV.
“Meditation” meant sitting there frustrated that my brain wouldn’t stop.

Tired, but somehow unable to rest - unless I’d partied too hard the night before!

When I had my miscarriage, I was drawn to Reiki.
My teacher guided us through meditation and shamanic journeys.
Others shared incredible visions afterwards.
Me?
I fell asleep.

My body did what it needed, but I was frustrated, I couldn’t connect.

Later, mineral testing revealed I was in a pattern called 4 Lows.
It’s like a car spinning its wheels in a ditch - wearing out the motor.
You feel like you’re trying everything, but nothing works.

Slowing down can feel frightening because the moment you stop, old pain and trauma surface.

I resonated.

For years, busyness had been my shield.
It kept me “capable.”
It gave me approval.
It distracted me from discomfort.
And it worked - my body learned that staying in motion = safe.

So, when I tried to stop?
My nervous system signaled danger.
Thoughts spiraling. Muscles braced.
Stillness felt like something was missing, not peace.

This is where minerals and stress chemistry can add fuel to the fire:

High sodium + potassium → wired in “go mode”
High calcium → emotionally shut down
Copper imbalances → intuition you can’t trust
Cortisol overdrive → survival mode

But your body isn’t fighting you.
It’s protecting you.

The answer isn’t to force stillness.
It’s to retrain your nervous system to feel safe enough to rest.
To create pockets of pause - moments of safety, presence, replenishment.

A regulated body doesn’t confuse stillness with danger.
It knows:
Rest = repair.
Pause = power.

This is the work I do with women.
Peeling back the patterns of stress and survival.
Supporting minerals and nervous system.
Rebuilding trust in the body’s rhythm.

Slowing down isn’t the problem.
Feeling safe enough to slow down is.

Your body isn’t broken. It’s brilliant.
It’s just waiting to feel safe again.

05/10/2025

Excited to be speaking in this amazing healing space 💛 if you’re close to Gympie be sure to come along and shift your world 🥰

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🌿 9D Breathwork & Cacao Ceremony 🌿

A journey of release, reconnection, and renewal.

📆 Sunday 12th of October
⏰ 3pm- roughly 5pm
📍 New outdoor space in Gympie (details provided upon booking)

We begin the session with a heart-opening cacao ceremony, inviting you to drop out of the mind and into the wisdom of your body. From this grounded, connected space, you’ll be guided through a 9D Breathwork journey, a powerful experience designed to help you release stored emotions and trauma, quiet the noise within, and open to deeper levels of clarity and self-awareness.

Following the breathwork, we’ll take time for gentle integration, allowing you to process and anchor what arises in a safe, supportive space.

We’re also joined by Dr Carla Atkinson - a Functional Health Practitioner & Life Coach who blends functional testing, mineral balancing, mindset, and energy work to help women restore their vitality and reconnect with themselves. Dr Carla will be sharing insights on how to support your mind and body through your healing journey.

What you may experience:

✨ Deep emotional release and energetic clearing
✨ Connection to your inner wisdom and intuition
✨ Nervous system reset
✨ A sense of peace, clarity, and heart expansion
✨ Heightened self-awareness and renewed vitality

Limited spaces available.

DM to book or call/text Karla 0403 936 001

05/10/2025

Feeling like there’s more to life…