Rooted In Presence

Carly Killen
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Rooted in Presence is a podcast for midlife souls ready to move beyond survival and come home to themselves.  Join Carly Killen, midlife, menopause and Breathwork coach for conversations on menopause, strength training, nervous system wisdom, bone health, and self-reclamation.  This is where science meets soul to help you live with more truth, more ease, more you. Welcome home.

  1. 6d ago

    Ep 141 Strength After 40: Are Your Best Days Behind You?

    We've just passed the summer solstice; the peak of the light, and the precise moment it begins, very gently, to turn. It got me thinking about the thresholds we meet in midlife, and one in particular: strength. In this episode I share a story about the heaviest weight I ever lifted on a competition platform and what happened next. We get into the actual physiology of strength and ageing, why the cliff-edge narrative is wrong, and what genuinely changes whether you've trained for decades, are noticing a dip, or have never picked up a weight in your life and think it's too late. Spoiler: it isn't. It might be exactly the right time. Local to Hull? Try out the Strong Bones Club 2 week trial if you're curious about lifting in midlife and menopause. Learn more here For gentle coaching through midlife transitions get in touch at carlykillen.com For Breathwork 1-1 coaching and workshops head over to stillspacehull.com Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    19 min

  2. Jun 17

    Ep 140 Are You Waiting For Joy? Here's What You're Missing

    We so often treat joy as a destination, something we'll get to once everything is sorted, healed, achieved or resolved. I'll be happy when. I'll relax when. I'll feel free when. But what if joy was never meant to be a finish line? What if it's already here, quietly woven through the ordinary moments we're moving too fast to notice? In this episode I share a moment from a recent Wonder Walk that caught me completely off guard, a card about an egg that gave me permission to stop interpreting everything, and a gentle invitation to notice the nourishment that's already in your life.  No waiting required. Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    16 min

  3. Jun 10

    Ep139 Don't Let Regret Steal The Life You Have Now

    In this week's episode, Carly explores a very specific kind of grief: one that doesn't come from losing something, but from finally finding it. The 'why didn't I start sooner' feeling. The ache that can show up right alongside a genuine awakening. It's something I've lived through more than once. And it's something I sit with my clients through regularly. Come and have a listen. I think you might recognise yourself in this one. In this episode: — The grief of arrival — what it is and why it matters — My own loops through this feeling (strength training, leaving the NHS, and more) — Why the grief and the joy don't have to cancel each other out — How breathwork and coaching have helped me process rather than suppress — Four questions to sit with at your own pace Links & next steps: Still Space Hull: breathwork, coaching and community: stillspacehull.com Book a free breathwork discovery call: Book Here Enquire about one-to-one coaching: contact Carly Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    19 min

  4. Jun 3

    Ep 128 The One Thing Menopause Can't Take From You And What Butterflies Have to Do With It

    If you're in a season of big change; menopause, midlife, or just that feeling of not quite knowing who you are anymore, this episode is for you. We close with a simple breath awareness practice that you can use anywhere, any time things feel like too much. This week I learned something about butterflies that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar doesn't just change. It dissolves. Almost completely. And yet, one thing survives. Intact. Through all of it.  Come and have a listen. I think you might need this one. LINKS Find Still Space Hull: breathwork, coaching and community for midlife transitions >> stillspacehull.com Book a free breathwork discovery call: carlykillen.com Enquire about the Embodied Strength Profile Assessment: carlykillen.com Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    20 min

  5. May 27

    Ep 137. Space Before Schduling: What Your Wellness Routine Is Missing

    Something kept coming up across Carly’s client sessions this week. A composite thread running through different conversations with different clients all trying to figure out how to make their self-care and routines actually stick. And the question that kept arising was this: could you plan your downtime as much as you plan your workout time? In episode 137, Carly explores why scheduling the decompression first, before adding anything new, is often the missing piece.  She introduces the continue, stop, start framework for creating space before scheduling, explores the two kinds of imbalance she sees most often, and talks honestly about what firm compassion really means in practice. This isn’t about doing less. It’s about doing things in the right order. In this episode: → Why adding new habits onto a full plate doesn’t work → Space before scheduling: decompression as the first habit → The continue, stop, start exercise for creating room → The two kinds of imbalance and how to know which one you’re in → Firm compassion: what it really means to be held accountable with care → Self mastery as the real investment If you'd like to explore how to work with Carly, connect through email carlykillenpt@gmail.com or book a few clarity call at carlykillen.com Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    16 min

  6. May 20

    Ep 136 Life After Burnout: Rebuilding a Life You Can't Yet Imagine

    What happens when your old routines stop fitting? When the life you’ve built no longer belongs to the person you’re becoming? This week Carly is talking about something she’s been sitting with personally and hearing from clients — what consistency really means when life has fundamentally shifted. After burnout. Through menopause. When the woman you were and the woman you’re becoming don’t quite match yet. This isn’t an episode about pushing through. It’s about rebuilding differently. Staying in conversation with who you are now, not who you used to be. And trusting that the life on the other side of the not-knowing can be more you than anything you’ve lived so far. AND something five-year-old Carly knew that took decades to remember. In this episode: → Why consistency as a contract breaks down when life changes → The difference between genuine rest and resistance disguised as self-care → Routines that breathe — flexibility without losing your anchor points → What rebuilding looks like after burnout, menopause or any major life shift → Why the life you can’t imagine yet might be the most you of all Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    20 min

  7. May 14

    Ep 135: Wonder, Mental Health and Reclaiming Joy From the To-Do List

    This is a Mental Health Awareness Week episode. But it's not a fix-it episode, and it's not a think-positive episode. It's an honest conversation about wonder — the small, quiet, always-available kind and why reclaiming it might be one of the most quietly radical things you can do. Carly explores glimmers, soft fascination and Attention Restoration Theory, the difference between childlike and childish, why joy has been quietly monetised and turned into something that needs to be productive, and what it actually looks like when women reclaim their capacity for wonder, on holiday, dancing, with the people they love, in the ordinary moments of a midlife life. This episode holds the hard stuff too. Wonder is not a cure. But it is a practice, gentle, low-pressure, and always available, wherever you are. If you'd like to explore how to include a little more wonder in your life goals contact me at carlykillen.com for a free clarity call If you're struggling with your mental health right now, please know you don't have to manage alone. Here are some people who would love to hear from you: If you need to talk right now: Samaritans — free, 24 hours, 365 days Call 116 123 or email jo@samaritans.org CALM — if you're affected by suicidal thoughts Call 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight daily) If you'd prefer to text: Shout — free, confidential, 24/7 Text SHOUT to 85258 If you need information and support: Mind — call 0300 102 1234 (Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm) Or visit mind.org.uk If you're in crisis and not sure where to start: Call NHS 111 and select the mental health option Available 24 hours — you will not be wasting anyone's time If you just need someone to talk to about how you're feeling: Come and find me at Still Space Hull. I'd love to hear from you. Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    24 min

  8. May 6

    Ep 134 Rest Is Resistance: Are You A Restorer?

    In this episode Carly explores why rest feels so radical for midlife women, the science behind rest in strength training and the nervous system, the neuroscience of silence and neurogenesis, and introduces The Restorer; one of four archetypes from the Midlife Presence system.  Also included... a sneak peek of an upcoming offering at Still Space Hull. Take the MIDLIFE PRESENCE ARCHETYPE QUIZ here Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a question about today’s episode or find out how I can support you with coaching, here’s how to reach me: 📧 Email: carlykillenpt@gmail.com 📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach Do you crave unshakable confidence in your strength from midlife and beyond? Would you love to achieve your goals without sacrificing family time or self-care? Ready to take your strength to the next level? Start building a stronger body and healthier bones with my Strong Bones Starter Kit; your step-by-step guide to safe and effective strength training at home. 👉 Click here to learn more and access today 🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @thestrongbonescoach. 🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at carlykillenpt@gmail.com Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

    23 min
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Rooted in Presence is a podcast for midlife souls ready to move beyond survival and come home to themselves.  Join Carly Killen, midlife, menopause and Breathwork coach for conversations on menopause, strength training, nervous system wisdom, bone health, and self-reclamation.  This is where science meets soul to help you live with more truth, more ease, more you. Welcome home.

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  • Creator
    Carly Killen
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    141
  • Rating
    Clean
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    © 2026 Rooted In Presence
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