Wise Yourself Up

It’s the final episode of this season 😭 and Carla is giving us all the gossip on her dating life, as well as announcing her new course!  Carla talks about the red flags she’s noticed since getting back into dating, the mindset shifts she’s had this time around, and why you should never trust a man who wears sunglasses in his profile photos.  Carla also shares more about her 20-hour online Breathw...

In today’s episode, Carla opens up an honest conversation about shame and how it quietly drives so many of our behaviours, from relationships to self worth to the way we cope.     She shares her own experience with shame and explores the difference between healthy and toxic shame, how shame develops early in childhood, and why it is one of the hardest emotions to identify and process.  Timestamps...

Carla is joined by Somatic Therapist and Sexologist Emily King to discuss how so much of what we’ve been taught about sex isn’t actually helpful or even true. Emily shares how she got into sexology, and how that shaped the way she understands behaviour, power, and connection. They talk about sex work, stigma, and the realities of laws in places like Edinburgh, before moving into more personal conv...

Emma is back on the podcast to share her experience of getting diagnosed with ADHD. She and Carla talk openly about struggling with focus, negative self-talk, and addictive tendencies, and highlight the ways in which ADHD can present itself in ways people don’t always recognise. Emma also shares her experience of starting medication, the fears she had before taking it, and what it has been like fo...

Carla is back with a solo episode to catch you up on her life since August! In this episode, she opens up about grief and how she’s dealing with it after three years since big loss. She talks about opening up to her friends, feeling more closed off in herself, and how the body always tells the truth even when your mind is telling you otherwise. There’s always this pressure in life to be productive...

Wise Yourself Up is back!! We’re starting off the season with three incredible guests, Natasha Gold, Una O’Brien and Carly MacDonald, the founders of Youth Untroubled, to talk about something that so many families experience but very few people talk about honestly. Across the UK, more and more young people are entering care, psychiatric units or the justice system. Yet behind these statistics are...

JOIN THE 21-DAY BREATHWORK CHALLENGE STARTING ON MONDAY! Whether you never express the emotion of anger or you are angry all the time, this is a powerful emotion that is sending you a signal as to what your needs are. This is the final episode of this season. Carla is chatting about the very misunderstood power of anger and explains how breathwork helps us process it instead of suppressing it. She...

JOIN THE OCEAN HEALING COMMUNITY AT FOUNDER PRICING Carla is back with part 2, speaking about all things emotions. If you’ve ever wondered why sitting with emotions like sadness, anger, or grief feels so uncomfortable, Carla is going to explain it all in today’s episode and share how slowing down and breathwork can transform the way we heal. Carla shares what she’s learning through her Compassiona...

SIGN UP TO THE WAITLIST FOR CARLA’S NEW OCEAN HEALING COMMUNITY This week, Carla’s talking emotions- why they’re at the root of everything, how most of us either avoid them or get overwhelmed by them, and what can actually help. She shares what she’s learned from her Compassionate Inquiry training with Gabor Maté, plus years of breathwork and body-based work. There’s chat about how childhood shape...

Carla sits down with professional boxer turned comedian, Tommy McCarthy. Tommy shares the highs and lows of his boxing career and what led him to hang up his gloves. He opens up about dealing with grief after the loss of his mother, growing up as one of the only Black kids in West Belfast, and living between London and Belfast. Tommy has now stepped into the Irish comedy scene and speaks about his...

Abuse isn’t always obvious. It can show up in small everyday behaviours. This is part two of this topic so if you haven’t listened to part 1, head over to last week’s episode! Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of abuse, child trauma, and femicide. Helplines and resources are linked below. Today Carla is focusing on owning our own harmful patterns, and understanding how to heal fro...

Trigger warning: This episode includes discussions of abuse, child trauma, and femicide. Helplines and resources are linked below. Carla is discussing the complexities of abusive relationships, exploring how abusive behaviours often go unnoticed and how we can begin to recognise them in our own lives. She reflects on the signs of abuse and how we can break free from these destructive patterns. Tim...

If you’ve ever felt waves of emotion in response to a situation with no obvious explanation, it might be linked to unprocessed trauma. Carla is back and chatting today about the work she does with her clients. She shares a client’s story about how the trauma of being separated from her parents at birth showed up in her life, even though she believed it hadn’t affected her. Carla explains how somat...

You can tell how someone is feeling just based on their body language, no words needed. Carla is going into the power of body language in this week’s episode and what your posture, gaze, and tone are revealing about what’s going on inside (and how to read these signs in others), particularly when it comes to dating! Your body is SO powerful. It will sense things before your mind does, so it’s time...

Trigger Warning: This episode touches on themes of suicide and grief. If this topic feels too heavy right now, skip this one or come back when you're ready. If you’re finding things difficult, you are not alone, please reach out for support. ❤️ Carla is back with a reflective solo episode from her time in Portugal and what she’s learned since being here. She reflects on a recent mushroom trip...

Sign up here for Carla’s retreat in Donegal, where you are guaranteed craic, connection and incredible food! If you find yourself changing your plans, constantly waiting for a text, and neglecting the things that make you feel good when you start dating, Carla is chatting all about this in this week's episode. She goes through dating patterns, attachment styles, childhood wounds, and why we o...

Carla’s speaking today about a topic we all need to be talking about more – sex. In this episode, she opens up about her own journey with pleasure and how yoga, breathwork and slowing down have changed her relationship with sex. She chats about what we were never taught about female pleasure growing up, and how every woman needs to be masturbating! Timestamps 00:00 Life catch-up – retreat, wedding...

Carla rushed her healing like Sonic the Hedgehog, and if you’re the same, don’t worry, Carla’s here to share how you can overcome the resistance to healing. In this episode, she shares the top five most common forms of resistance that come up for her clients during the healing process. She unpacks how we try to rush the journey, how we demonise emotions like anger, how our body’s reactions reveal...

Carla is back with a long-overdue solo episode, sharing everything that’s been going on over the past month! She answers some listener questions on the best way to meet someone, how to give yourself space and time to grieve, and allowing yourself to truly feel your emotions. She chats about why so many women struggle to process anger and the different ways it can manifest. And finally, she shares...

We’re back! And Carla is chatting with Paul McAllister, a breath work practitioner and former pharmacist who shares his journey of healing, seeking safety internally, and getting into somatic work. They chat about trauma, the nervous system, and some of the flaws of the pharmaceutical industry. This was a fantastic conversation, and if you found it helpful, please share it on your social media and...

Carla sits down with the gorgeous Naoise (Yoga le Naoise), the founder of Tabhair Aire, which translates to "give care" in Irish. Her events focus on integrating the Irish language into yoga practices. They chat about everything from reconnecting with your body through yoga, finding balance between wellness and drinking, and the beauty of the Irish language. Naoise opens up about her per...

Carla’s dating life is going about as well as her luck with her phone this year...… not very good. In this episode, Carla shares her two most recent dating experiences, getting love bombed (not for her looks, but by being hooked in with trauma talk) and also being told 'Belfast isn't real Ireland'. She reflects on what she’s learned from dating, how she’s taking the pressure off it,...

Carla is joined by the lovely Emma Neill for a special V-Day episode where they chat about their relationships, past heartbreaks, getting ghosted, and give their best advice on love. Whether you’re spending this V-Day single or with a partner, there’s something in this ep that everyone will learn from! Timestamps: 00:00 Catch up with Emma Neill 13:52 Hour-long orgasms 16:51 How many great loves ha...

It can be hard to invest money into a retreat when your mind is telling you, ‘I could go on a holiday for this money,’ ‘Is it really worth it?’ etc… but Carla wanted to share her experience at the retreat she attended in Wales over the weekend and the changes she’ll be making in her life as a result of this. Carla FINALLY had a much-needed cry, had time to process the grief that was being held in...

JOIN CONNECT TO SELF- https://www.carlamcgreevy.com/connect-to-self In this week’s episode, Carla discusses a topic so many of us can relate to—dating emotionally unavailable men. Sharing her own experiences, she looks at why we keep finding ourselves in these patterns, how our core beliefs shape the relationships we choose, and what’s really going on underneath all of this. Carla also chats about...