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Dr Carla Atkinson PhD - Remedial Massage and Functional Health

Helping women restore energy + reconnect to their truth ✨
Science meets soul
Minerals • Mindset • Energy
Begin your journey to ✨ Radiate from Within ✨

I help mums restore their energy and show up as their best selves, not their stressed selves, enabling them to live the radiant life they envisioned with motherhood, instead of feeling overwhelmed by its challenges. When you lack energy, the thought of self-care feels like another chore on the ever-expanding to-do-list, and you passionately shout something along the lines of “who the F has time for that?!”

But, as Dr Paul Eck says … “When you have energy, being yourself comes naturally. You don’t have to try.”

So, to bring the best of you, not just what’s left of you…

#1 – I help you get your cells generating energy like they were designed to, helping you gather some capacity to consider more of your options. You are not broken. You don’t have to suck it up and accept ‘this is how it is now’. Your mind and body have an imbalance of ingredients, some missing, some in surplus, some a little offline, and they’re affecting how you function. When we can figure out those imbalances and give the body what it needs, physically, mentally, and spiritually
… we’re cruising! That’s exactly what I help you do in my Radiate from Within program. Please visit my website for more info:

drcarlaatkinson.com

20/12/2025

Last night I saw a post about being the creator of my own life.
I’ve heard it a thousand times before.
I know it.

But last night, I felt it.

At 9pm I decided we were going to head out early for brekkie at the beach, a play at the park, and a swim.
I threw the sausages in the oven while prepping for a quick vacate the next day.
Off to bed, then woke to share the plan…

Here’s how the day unfolded - depending on how I chose to see it.

Option A:
Got elbowed in the eye before I even got out of bed.
Boys whinged they weren’t going to see their friends.
Complaints about the “long drive” (we hadn’t even left our town)
Odin desperate for a p*e whilst I’m driving on highway.
Wind blowing the gas flame, pan taking forever to heat
My fool proof non-stick eggs method failed.
Put butter in cooler bag = unspreadable butter.
Forgot a bowl to whisk the eggs.
Boys complained could see whites in the scrambled eggs.
Odin stung 3x by a hornet.
Forgot first aid bag.
8 min walk to pharmacy felt like 30 in the hot sun.
Got lost in caravan park and walked twice as far as needed.
Jada did massive poo in the ocean next to kids playing.
Barking at paddleboarders.
Barking at boys running in the water.
Prawns are now $50 a kg!!! Remember when they were $15.
Go home and discovered Jada had p*ed in the car.
Zac smashed glass jar full of sultanas – glass as far as all four walls.
Jada p*ed in the hallway.
Boys extra loud and silly as I cooked and washed up.
Boys being silly instead of getting ready for bed.

Option B:
Boys excited to possibly meeting new friends.
Lots of laughs in the back of the car..
Got to the loo just in time after the hour drive.
Jada and I met a lovely couple and their kelpie waiting for pan to heat.
Noticed six-packs and glistening skin instead of the usual t**s and arses at the beach.
Had ice pack for Odin’s sting which calmed him straight away.
Got to see caravan park we were considering visiting.
All of us lying on the grass under a tree, feeling a beautiful cool breeze.
Zacs head resting on my lap.
Odin being hilarious with hide and seek.
Boys climbing trees.
Jada playing with another kelpie.
Boys jumping off pier with new friends.
Sat with Jada watching the boys and spoke with a gentleman in his 80s telling me about how he met his wife, and how beautiful Jada was.
Got two new clients.
Jada playing with another puppy.
Told a lady I loved her dress and her little girl thought I meant her All Blacks t-shirt.
Had Ferrero Rocher icecream.
Proud of how I handled the boys mayhem and breakages.
Pet shop lady recognised us - donated to Riding for the Disabled and kids learning to read by reading to dogs.
Washed up with music playing while the boys played outside.
Spoke with hubby lying on the bed with the boys, all of us laughing.
Extra-long kisses and savoured cuddles with my boys.
Journalling.
Feeling proud of the day I created.

Same day.
Same events.
Different focus.

Such an epic reminder of how intention - and what I choose to give energy to - changes everything.

16/12/2025

I love that my clients trust me.

Even when I refer them out to other practitioners who can support them in more specific ways, they often come back and ask me to look over their protocols.

Not because anything’s wrong -
but because context matters.

I help them understand the what and the why behind the choices, which settles the doubt and establishes more faith in their body and their process.

This is how I support women in my 1:1 work - clarity, context, and truth.

I also love how, by serving clients, I receive too.
I feel satisfied, energised, and truly connected to my purpose.

Thank you to all my clients - past, present, and future.

Here’s wishing you a very Merry Christmas and festive season ahead!

14/12/2025

A friend is considering cutting sugar and flour for her weight loss journey yet shared "I’ve heard so much in the recent years that cutting sugar and flour isn’t sustainable and it is the worse thing I can do". I offered her some context on this and thought it would be valuable to share here too...

For many women, fully cutting sugar and flour is unsustainable - not because of lack of willpower, but because the body often interprets restriction as stress. When the body feels stressed rather than nourished, it adapts in ways that can slow metabolism, increase cravings, and make weight regulation harder over time.

Carbohydrates (which ultimately break down into glucose) play some really important roles in the body, especially for women.

Eating too few carbohydrates can:
• Reduce conversion of inactive thyroid hormone (T4) into its active form (T3), which can slow metabolism and contribute to fatigue and weight changes
• Lead to low blood sugar, which places stress on the body and disrupts insulin and hormone balance
• Increase cortisol (stress hormone), signalling to the body that it’s under threat rather than safe and nourished
• Disrupt menstrual cycles and fertility by altering hormone signalling
• Dysregulate leptin and ghrelin (our hunger and satiety hormones), often increasing cravings and overeating later
• Impact serotonin and dopamine - neurotransmitters that support mood, calm, motivation and sleep
• Reduce overall energy, making it harder to move, recover and feel good - and often leading to rebound binges because cells are effectively under-fuelled

If, however, what’s being removed is highly processed carbohydrates and refined grains - things like chips/crisps, hot chips, low-quality pizzas, cakes, biscuits, and sodas - then absolutely, that can be supportive. These foods are often made with poor-quality fats, are commonly GMO, and may be contaminated with glyphosate.

These foods can burden the liver, place stress on the body and adrenals, are generally nutrient-poor, and drive inflammation. Arguably, much of the issue comes from the PUFA content rather than sugar itself, as these fats can interfere with insulin signalling by blocking cellular receptivity to glucose.

But that’s very different from removing wholefood carbohydrate sources.

The same applies to flour. Modern, ultra-processed wheat products are worlds apart from:
• traditionally fermented sourdough
• ancient grains
• homemade or artisan breads made with real ingredients

So for me, it’s not about removing sugar or flour - it’s about the source, the context, and the overall nourishment of the body.

Pairing carbohydrates with adequate protein (and wholefood fats) can also make a big difference, as protein helps stabilise blood sugar, reduce cravings, and support satiety without needing to eliminate carbs altogether.

In other words: you don’t have to “earn” food or eliminate foods to heal or lose weight. Often the body responds far better when it feels fed, safe, and supported rather than restricted.….and a metabolically healthy diet can absolutely contain sugar and flour - in fact all of those I’ve come across do.

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08/12/2025

I am currently stressed – a disordered weight that fractures.
But what if this is instead pressure?
A concentrated force that creates diamonds?

What shifts for me then?...

My boys are noisy. They get incredibly loud. The kind that doors don’t block.
My boys are silly and thoughtless.
My boys fight, slam doors, hurt each other.
My boys are normal boys.

And I get incredibly overstimulated by the noise.
My whole body shakes, my heart pounds.
I react in screams and growls.

I know from my HTMA my body’s resources are depleted.
My nervous system is wired.
And I know I don’t replenish myself with nutrition alone.

What I think and feel about circumstances in my life,
and the way I nourish myself,
has a profound effect on whether what I ingest gets absorbed or further wasted/depleted.

When I restore the nutrients my body requires to function,
my thoughts and feelings respond positively.

And when my thoughts and feelings are aligned,
my physical body is more able to replenish and use its nutrient stores.

But this piece around overstimulation has me perplexed and contemplative.

Should I be able to tolerate the extreme?
Is that grading subjective or objective?

I should be allowed quiet in my own home, should I not?

Yet my boys are also in their own home.
They are being themselves.

And I’m trying to control how they are being – through requests, yes
– but if they don’t comply, I explode.

I am an only child.
I’ve never contended with this.

What if this is a gift for me.
Better yet – how can I make this be a gift for me?

My body says it’s not mindset,
it’s not parenting skill,
it’s not even nervous system regulation.
It’s capacity.

And right now, I’m at capacity.

We can’t “breathe through” sensory overload when it’s:
prolonged,
unpredictable,
intense,
generated by two children amplifying each other,
happening before our cortisol even resets from the last round,
happening in a home where we never get true silence.

Our system simply cannot hold that without exploding –
is that true?

That it isn’t failure.
That it is physiology.

That mothers with highly sensitive nervous systems and depleted mineral reserves cannot withstand chronic noise without erupting.

Is it the same as trying to deadlift 120kg with torn muscles - you can want to, but the body says:
“I physically cannot do this.”

And our screaming is the body’s emergency override.

And yet - my boys are not yet developmentally capable of honouring the quiet on demand.

I’m wanting something from them that their brain literally cannot sustain consistently yet.

This is not weakness.
This is the edge of humanity.

And this is the place where a real diamond is formed.

Modern mothers are carrying a load that has never existed before in human history.

We’re not becoming weaker.
We are becoming something new…something more

There is a difference between:
a woman who is overwhelmed because she is insufficient, and
a woman who is overwhelmed because she is being restructured.

Motherhood is not just happening to us.

It is shaping us into the kind of woman whose leadership does not come from perfection,
or flawless regulation techniques,
or never raising our voice,

but from
presence,
intuition,
discernment,
capacity, and
embodied truth.

Without these, we fracture.
With them we become diamonds.

07/12/2025

That's a wrap on the Remember workshop!
I may have cried when sharing what this practice has done for me!
I want you to know this!

This workshop was created because so many of us rush into the next year without ever pausing to acknowledge what we lived.
What we moved through.
What we created.
What we survived.
What we became.
What we lived!

Your life is made up of what you remember - and this ritual is your chance to honour it all.

Please find the replay link in the comments.
And how perfect that it's 25 minutes long!!!

06/12/2025

Free live Zoom tomorrow at 2pm AEST (Brisbane time).

If you can't make it live, a replay will be sent out so you can still do this practice for yourself and feel it's magic.

The link to register is in the comments 💛
Share it with your friends!
I am so looking forward to Remember with you!

03/12/2025

Before you step into what’s next,
remember what brought you here.

From this place you find gratitude for what has past.

From this place your desires for your future feel more attainable.

From this place you create an exceptional life with more memories to be proud of.

Come and Remember with me -
A free workshop to celebrate the past year and who you’re becoming.

Link to join is in the comments 💛

02/12/2025

This year holds gold.
Wisdom.
Proof.
Evidence.
Growth.
Grit.
Lessons.
Joy.
And parts of you that deserve to be seen -
no matter what went down, good or hard.

When you actually integrate your year, you create a launch pad.
You step into the next one with confidence, clarity, and a deep knowing of who you are and what you’re capable of.

This is intentional living.
This is how we create our lives -
not by rushing ahead, but by remembering.

Join me for REMEMBER -
a FREE workshop to reflect on your year,
honour your growth,
and acknowledge everything you’ve carried and moved through.

I’ll guide you through powerful ways to look back on your year so you end it with a deep sense of gratitude, clarity, and desire.

Reflect shoulder-to-shoulder with other women -
a powerful Sunday session.

Sunday 7th December - 2pm AEST
Replays available if you can’t make it live.

Come remember who you’ve become.
Your year deserves that.
You deserve that.

Link to join is in the comments.

01/12/2025

How often do we reach the end of a year and think,
“Thank goodness that’s over… let’s just start fresh”?
Or maybe they’re all flying by and the years feel they’re rolling into one…

But there is so much gold in the year we’ve just lived.

When we look back — honestly, gently — we see the challenges we moved through, the experiences that shaped us, and the woman we became along the way.

Reflection gives us awareness of:
• who we are
• what we’re capable of
• how we want to move forward
• where we want to grow

When we integrate our year, we land on a launch pad — stepping into the new one with clarity, confidence, and desires that feel doable, achievable, and true.
Because we’re building on evidence of what we already know about ourselves.

And we also create space for gratitude…
for the joy, the lessons, the moments that changed us.

This is intentional living.
This is how we create our lives — not by rushing ahead, but by remembering.

If you want to end this year with clarity, gratitude, and truth… join me for REMEMBER.
A free workshop to honour your year and acknowledge everything you’ve moved through.

26/11/2025

Today was a challenge.

I’m not going to list it all because thats not the point, but if you’re a mum you know…

The noise level, the repeating self, the thoughtless actions that cost your energy….

Days like these are when I remind myself we’re a new breed.

The modern mother deals with so much - but I’m not here to say how tough it is, how unfair, unjust etc.
Whilst this has served me in the past, I find it disempowering.

I am more curious as to how we shape ourselves through these challenges, who we evolve into to hold it all.

I’ve learnt trying to change my circumstances helps to a degree but it can also be draining,

When I work on my own truth and alignment I find more peace and recharge.

This doesn’t mean it’s easy. As I sit here feeling the breeze, listening to my music and the evening chorus …and my boys telling me of giant spiders and cane toads I must see… I can feel in my body and my mind that this was a hard day, but I also notice I am more centred than I have been.

I’m not embarrassed of my actions, shaming myself for what I should have done better.

I’m meeting myself.
Here.
Now.

It was a hard day.

But hard days don’t make us less capable.
They shape us.

My success isn’t measured by ‘perfect’ or easy days - it’s in remembering who I am and returning to her.

26/11/2025

I invite you to join me and... Remember
- a free workshop to reflect on your year, honour your growth, and acknowledge everything you’ve carried and moved through.

We rush forward so quickly…
and rarely look back with truth.
Or compassion.
Or recognition.

You’ve evolved this past year.
And I invite you to truly witness that.
Honour that.
Celebrate that.

This is how your self-concept grows.
This is how self-pride is built.
This is what strengthens your grit, your knowing,
and your belief in the woman you’re becoming.

This is what makes your dreams feel not far away,
but like the 'of course'… obvious… logical next step.

So join me for a Sunday session:
a gentle look back at how you’ve grown
and a celebration of the woman you’re becoming.

Sunday 7th December
2:00pm AEST
REMEMBER - a free workshop

Link in the comments to register 💛

17/11/2025

I was always a bit confused when mentors spoke about “remembering” who we are.
Was it some previous version of me I’d forgotten?

That never feel right.

I’m so much wiser now,
I’ve lived more.
Experienced more.

It doesn’t make sense to be a past version of me.
Maybe it’s a past-life me… or a me before the stressors I have now?

That still didn’t quite feel right.

Even the word “ re-member” - to come back to the member, the body, the being? – didn’t fully click.

Then I learnt of a-temporal coherence… and it made sense.

What I’m “remembering” isn’t about the past.
It’s about coming back to my desires.

The ones that get so easily overlooked or viewed from a lens of lack when life starts “life-ing.”

That’s a stupid phrase hey — life is life-ing.
That context is a lie.

Life is amazing…when you live it.

I don’t feel like much of the world is really living.
Just existing.

We say, “oh life”, and all nod like we know it means the stress, the finances, the people problems we “all deal with”… but that’s NOISE.

If life were truly life-ing, we’d be truly living, not pushing or getting by.

So scratch those words…
The desires that so easily get overlooked or viewed from a lens of lack, when life feels more like a grind.

But when I connect with my desires -
that’s what I know is meant for me.

That’s when I “remember” who I’m meant to be.
And that’s when there’s no gap between who I will become
and who I already am.

From here, I “remember” what it feels like to be her…
and I take action as her.

I feel her… and I remember how to lead now, how to move, how to talk to myself, what to do.

I move out of my head thinking:
“I need to feel more clear on this to act”,
“I need to figure this out before I can move.”
And instead, I find an inner knowing.

It feels calm.
Grounded.
At ease.

Such a great feeling.

Here I find my love of self.
I see more beauty in my world.
I trust.
And I relax.

This is where Radiate from Within begins -
Remembering.
Realigning to her.

Early-bird closes Thursday 6am AEST.
The link to join is in the comments.

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