About Carina Bull
Trauma-Aware Intuitive Guide
Helping women recognise where survival became identity.
Certified Transformational Tarot Coach • Reiki Practitioner • Trauma-Aware Trained
I work with women who’ve spent years holding everything together for everyone else… while quietly losing themselves underneath the weight of it all.
Women who look capable on the outside…
but inside feel emotionally exhausted, overwhelmed, resentful, disconnected, or stuck in survival patterns they don’t fully understand.
Because I know what it feels like to live that way too.
For years, I told myself I was “fine.”
I kept coping.
Kept over-giving.
Kept pushing through exhaustion like it was normal.
Until one day I realised survival mode had quietly shaped every part of my life.
The way I thought.
The way I responded to stress.
The way I abandoned myself just to keep everything else functioning.
That’s what led me into this work.
Not because I had all the answers.
But because I know how heavy it feels to carry pain you’ve learnt to minimise, normalise, or hide from everyone around you.
Now, through Tarot, Reiki, and transformational coaching, I help women recognise the lifelong patterns of self-abandonment they were taught to normalise… so they can begin reconnecting with themselves from a place of truth instead of survival.
That lived experience shapes the way I work now.
My work combines intuitive insight, emotional truth-telling and trauma-aware support to help women recognise the patterns and survival responses underneath what they’re experiencing.
I don’t believe in surface-level healing or pretending everything can be fixed with positive thinking.
I believe healing starts with honesty.
It starts with being able to say:
“This isn’t working anymore.”
“I’m exhausted.”
“I can’t keep carrying all of this alone.”
Nothing you say will shock me.
I know what it feels like to sit in the mess of grief, burnout, anxiety, emotional overwhelm, and self-abandonment… and still try to appear “fine” on the outside.
That’s why I hold space the way I do: human, grounded, honest, and without judgement.
I’ll tell you what you need to hear, not just what feels comfortable to hear.
Because truth is often where healing begins.
And behind the work, I’m also just a real person.
I’m fiercely loyal, deeply feeling, and happiest when I’m with my family, out in nature, travelling somewhere new, or curled up with coffee beside my little Pomeranian, Einstein.
Those quieter moments remind me that healing isn’t always loud or dramatic.
Sometimes it begins in the smallest moments…
the moment you finally realise you matter too.
My Journey to Healing
I was born and raised in the UK before moving to Australia in 2013 with my husband, leaving behind everything we once knew to build a life from scratch.
After several miscarriages, we welcomed our first child in 2018, followed by our second in 2020.
And somewhere underneath all of that… I was still carrying years of pain I hadn’t fully allowed myself to face.
For a long time, I told myself it wasn’t “that bad.”
I minimised it.
Shrugged it off.
Kept coping.
Kept surviving.
But the truth?
It was that bad.
There were periods of my life where I genuinely didn’t know how I was going to keep going.
I nearly gave up more than once.
And yet somewhere underneath the exhaustion, grief, trauma, anxiety, and survival mode… there was still a part of me that refused to disappear completely.
Growing up, I was often told:
“You’re too sensitive.”
“Be quiet.”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about.”
So I learnt to dim myself.
To disconnect from my voice.
To normalise carrying pain in silence.
Until eventually I realised survival mode had shaped the way I saw myself, the way I related to others, and the way I moved through life.
That realisation changed everything.
Because healing didn’t begin when I “became positive.” It began when I finally became honest.
Honest about what hurt.
What exhausted me.
What I could no longer keep pretending was okay.
That’s why I do this work the way I do now.
Not from perfection.
Not from having all the answers.
But from lived experience.
From knowing what it feels like to rebuild yourself after years of surviving.
For years, I thought being hyper-independent, carrying everything alone and constantly pushing through were simply parts of who I was.
Eventually I realised many of them weren't personality traits at all.
They were ways I'd learned to survive.
Sometimes we just need support.
Not because we’re weak.
Not because we’ve failed.
But because carrying everything alone eventually becomes exhausting.
You don’t need to have your whole life figured out before reaching out for help.
I know how hard it can be to finally say:
“I can’t keep doing this the same way anymore.”
But asking for support can become the moment everything starts changing.
Not overnight.
Not all at once.
But slowly, honestly, and in ways that begin rippling into every part of your life.
Let’s begin here
You don’t have to do this alone anymore.
You’re allowed to ask for help before you reach breaking point.
You’re allowed to stop carrying everything by yourself.
Who were you before survival taught you who you had to be?
If you’re ready for support, you can reach out here.
With love,
Carina x
If you want to get a feel for my work before booking a session, the podcast is a good place to start.
On Soul Medicine, I share emotionally honest conversations, taboo truths, and deeper insights into survival mode, people-pleasing, emotional exhaustion, relationships, healing, and reconnecting with yourself after years of simply coping.
No toxic positivity.
No pretending everything is fine.
Just honest conversations for women who are tired of carrying everything alone.
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My Professional Certifications
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Reiki Healing Association Certified Member
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Biddy Tarot Certified Transformational Tarot Coach
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International Institute for Complementary Therapists Certified Member