Dr Carla Atkinson PhD - Remedial Massage and Functional Health

05/08/2026

Most people who fear they’re lazy don’t fit that definition at all.

More often they’re:

* avoiding something uncomfortable.
* exhausted and under-resourced.
* putting their energy into something that feels more meaningful.
* wondering if trying is even worth it anymore.

That isn’t laziness. It’s information.

And perhaps that’s the bigger point.

I don’t think most of us fear laziness.
I think we fear what laziness would mean about us.

If I stop achieving...
If I stop producing...
If I stop filling every moment...

**Will I still have value?**

It’s why retirement is so fascinating.

One person thinks, “Now what?”

Another thinks, “Finally.”

Same circumstance.

Different identity.

One built their worth around productivity.

The other built it around living.

I also recognised something in myself.

For years I tried to use my time efficiently... so I could rest later.

I’d multitask.
Cram everything in.
Earn my rest.

Until I realised...

**Rest isn’t the reward for productivity.**

**Rest is what allows productivity to be sustainable.**

I wonder how many of us have that quiet voice in the background saying, “You should be doing something.”

I don’t believe the goal is to silence that voice. Maybe just stop letting it make every decision.

Because we confuse **doing** with **living**.

Someone can fill every hour of every day and never actually be present for their life.

Someone else can spend an hour drinking tea in the garden and be deeply engaged with living.

So perhaps the question isn’t...

**”Am I being lazy?”**

Maybe it’s...

* Am I avoiding something?
* Am I restoring something?
* Am I living according to what matters to me?
* When today did I feel most alive?

Because lying on the couch can be avoidance.
Or it can be restoration.

Working twelve hours can be purpose.
Or it can be avoidance.

The behaviour tells us very little.
The intention tells us almost everything.

Maybe the opposite of laziness isn’t productivity after all.

Maybe it’s conscious engagement with your life.

02/08/2026

27/07/2026

Hey I’m Carla 👋 I help women understand themselves and radiate from within ✨

23/07/2026

Your body is always communicating with you…do you hear what it’s saying?

22/07/2026

We’ve become so used to fighting our symptoms that we rarely stop to ask why they’re there.

Our bodies are incredibly intelligent.

Remember, it’s always doing the absolute best it can for
you.

Your body wants to keep you alive;
it’s on your side.

Symptoms don’t always mean something serious is wrong, and they rarely have one single
cause.

But they are often a signal that something in the body or the way we’re living deserves our attention.

Curiosity is often a much more helpful place to begin than frustration.

What’s one message you think your body has been trying to tell you lately? 💛

15/07/2026

Grant Cardone says that experience is the most expensive way to learn.

The universe gives us opportunities to grow and if you can’t find the lessons or wisdom in the experiences - that can feel fricken awful!! Like the world is against you!

But coaching helps you challenge your thoughts, your actions, your results and decide if you want evolution from those experiences…every single week!

And the growth that comes from that literally changes lives…and more than just that of the person being coached ✨

14/07/2026

What makes me angry?...

- Women believing they’re broken when their bodies are desperately trying to protect them.

- Mothers being praised for self-sacrifice while becoming ever more depleted.

- Symptoms being suppressed instead of understood.

- Women losing trust in themselves because every expert tells them something different.

- The expectation that women should keep functioning regardless of what it costs them.

- How we’ve been taught to look outside of ourselves for answers, permission, and wisdom vs nourish our inner connection and trust of what’s right for us.

I thought my role was to help women fix what was “wrong” with them.

But the longer I do this work, the more I realise, women aren’t broken.

They’re exhausted.
They’re disconnected.
They’re carrying impossible expectations.
And they’ve stopped trusting the wisdom of their own body.

This makes me sad.

But what makes me angry is that we’ve normalised it.

We’ve normalised pushing through exhaustion.
We’ve normalised telling women their symptoms are “just stress” or “just hormones.”
We’ve normalised celebrating self-sacrifice while ignoring the cost.
We’ve normalised a system that takes us away from our families, our bodies, and ourselves.

I don’t believe your body is working against you.

I believe it’s communicating.

Sometimes loudly.
Sometimes quietly.
But always with the intention of supporting you.

My work isn’t about convincing women to fight their bodies harder.

It’s about helping them understand what their body is trying to say, rebuilding trust in themselves, and creating the conditions where they can truly thrive.

I’d love to know...

Which anger point spoke to you the most?

01/07/2026

Symptoms aren’t due to deficits of medications.
Your body is freaking amazing.
If you’re feeling something’s off, there’s a reason for it, and I’d love to help you find what it is 💛

26/06/2026

This is why Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) tells a completely different story to a blood test.

It gives us a 3-month picture of what’s actually been happening inside your body - not just a snapshot of what’s circulating today.

Your body is always doing it’s absolute best with what it has. Sometimes it just needs someone who knows how to read what it’s actually saying.

Decode is my comprehensive HTMA analysis that gives you that picture - written in plain language, with a clear protocol for what your body actually needs. It also
includes a functional look at any recent bloods you have, alongside your lifestyle and symptoms.

Wherever you are in the world - I’d love to support you.
The link is in my bio 💛

24/06/2026

Decode is a full look at your health history, your biochemistry, and the energetic layers impacting how you feel.

You’ll feel validated and seen like never before, a clear understanding of your physical body - as well as an insight into the energetic layers impacting how you’re able to “be” in life.

Link is in my bio 💛