Half of Carla

11/03/2025

The difference in a choice made from fear or from freedom.

Everytime I chose to exercise before, it was from a place of fear, allowing external forces to influence my decisions.

❤️‍🩹“I have to go to the gym!”
❤️‍🩹“I need to exercise”
❤️‍🩹“I should be doing more!”

When you look at the language you can hear the defeatist tone within.

When I started losing weight, I was aware that as part of I would “have” to walk one hour a day. Throughout the programme, and as throughout a lot of my transformation my language began to change.

Gerard reminded us that “we get to walk”, a choice made from freedom rather than fear. A choice that comes from within, something for me rather than against me.

It’s a lesson that has continued to thread through my life, gratitude for my physical body, its abilities and how I get to honour and express it.

Have you experienced the difference in choices made from fear to freedom? X

02/03/2025

11/02/2025

New Episode Out Now!

I am delighted to share the newest episode of The Imperfectionist with you. This week I’m joined by the incredible Dr Clodagh Campbell .wellness.psychologist

Clodagh has the most magnetic and kind energy which radiates through the episode. She generously shares not only her own personal experience with negative self talk, but also some practical takeaways and wisdom from her career with us.

I’m sure so many of you will find this to be such an enlightening and eye opening episode.

The Imperfectionist is a original podcast and is available wherever you get your podcasts (Spotify, Apple Podcasts etc.)

Can’t wait to hear your feedback

x

02/02/2025

January, you were very good to me!

2024 was a weird year, but a lot of groundwork was laid to make 2025 unreal and I’m starting as I mean to go on!

✨ Our little man turned 3
✨ Nonna turned a nondescript number
✨ Quality time with Bob
✨ I finally launched my podcast 🙈
✨ Some bouldering
✨ The Imperfectionist was in the charts
✨ Messing around while talkin b*ollix
✨ Reunited with my Baes
✨ Celebrations with this legend
✨ More talking
✨ Some lovely events in epic outfits
✨ Fighting for our lives with new choreo
✨ Disrupting the Smush
✨ The baton has been passed

While these are some wonderful highlights there are moments that were also not so great. Social media is a highlight reel, please don’t compare your life to what you see online 🖤

28/01/2025

Resilience, Reinvention and Self-Acceptance

Sophie Anderton, 90s “IT Girl” and Supermodel sits down with me to talk through her incredible life. There are so many aspects of our chat that I would never have known or understood about living in the public eye during that time. But I found it particularly interesting to hear a completely different perspective on body dysmorphia and body shaming. Sophie also chats to me about evolving beauty standards, creating a business and finding peace in the Wicklow Mountains.

The Imperfectionist is available on the or wherever you get your podcasts.

Comment “Sophie” down below and I’ll send you the link straight to your inbox.

I can’t wait to hear what you think about this episode and please don’t forget to subscribe and leave me a review.

Xx

24/01/2025

My 1st weekend on BodySlims.

5 years ago this weekend I was having a melt down in my kitchen. Crying my eyes out because all I wanted was a Chinese but I had committed to and really wanted to give it my all. I was starving. I’d gone food shopping, late, on an empty stomach!! A trifecta of odds stacked against me.

By the time we’d gotten home, I was seconds away from placing an order. Until Vincent sat me down, gave me a tomato with salt and pepper and I regulated my emotions.

I realised that I was going to have to do something to ensure this didn’t happen every week and meal planning was going to have to become part of my weight loss. Meal planning helped to ensure that it was the adult me making decisions so when I would have an emotional/stressful/busy day, my inner child wasn’t going to be the one making the decisions.

Was it easy? Nope!

Did I like it all the time? Nope!

But was it worth it? It was a miniscule price to pay to make life simpler on me.

So don’t fail to plan this weekend

X

22/01/2025

3 Years of Being A Mom

It is one of the greatest privileges of my life to be a mother, especially to one of the kindest, most caring tiny humans in the world (I know I am biased, sue me 😂).

There is so much shame/guilt/anxiety around being a mother and so I thought I’d share 3 things I’ve learned in my short experience in the hopes of opening conversations about the expectations we place on ourselves and other mothers.

I would love to hear what you’d learned since becoming a parent.

21/01/2025

The Imperfectionist with

In the 2nd ep of The Imperfectionist I’m chatting to podcaster and professional “sharer” Niamh Cullen. Niamh was so generous with our conversation, sharing about how her dyslexia diagnosis at a young age affected the way she thought of herself and how she took herself out of a dark mental period in her life.

The Imperfectionist is a original podcast. Listen on the Go Loud App, wherever you get your podcasts or comment “Podcast” and I’ll send you the link.

AND guys I just wanted to thank you all so much for your incredible feedback on the podcast so far. I’m loving seeing you guys enjoying it, I cannot thank you enough for the support.

x

15/01/2025

Prepping for

There’s only 1 week left until BodySlims starts and if you’re anything like me on my 1st cycle, the nerves are high.

Here are a few tips to help you get ready for the next 10 weeks to help maximise your results and reduce any anxiety.
Do you have any suggestions, please share them in the comments down below xx
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13/01/2025

The Imperfectionist!

I am so excited (and nervous) to share with you my podcast “The Imperfectionist” with This has been over a year in the making and I’m so proud of the final result. It’s surreal to finally share something with you that’s been such a huge part of my life.

The 1st episode drops tomorrow 14th January on the Go Loud App or wherever you get your podcasts.

I’ll be sharing more about it tomorrow but in the mean time if you comment “podcast” below, I’ll send you the link to subscribe and hear the trailer.

I really hope you’ll enjoy listening

x

02/01/2025

20 Looks for 2024

This was an interesting year fashion wise for me. I felt sometimes like I got stuck in a rut, just wearing the same things on repeat without much effort because it was easy. And then on the other hand I had moments where I really pushed it for myself. Where I went outside my comfort zone and stopped worrying if I was overdone or “too much”.

One thing I will say is, your girl loves a good waist belt 😂

Which look is your favourite?
Alternative fashion, alternative style, all black outfits, rocker style, outfit of the day, outfit of the night, going out outfit inspo

31/12/2024

How I Make a Vision Board.

There’s so many different ways you can do this, but this is the one I’ve used for the last little while that’s worked really well for me.

Personally I prefer to do a digital vision board because I can put it on my phone or my home screen and it keeps me focused during the year.

Do you make vision boards?