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. 4d ago

    Ep 151 Watch Your Breath, Not Your Tracker: What HRV Really Means in Midlife

    Does your fitness tracker tell you off? Poor recovery again. Stress high again. HRV dropped again, even though you're doing all the things. If that sounds familiar, this episode is for you. Carly explains what heart rate variability actually is, why it's a measure of your adaptability rather than your calm, and what genuinely happens to it in perimenopause and menopause. Because your watch may well be picking up something real, it just has no idea that you had a hot flush at two in the morning. There's a lovely bit of physiology, ans a look at what the research does and doesn't say, a story from Carly's Olympic weightlifting days, and a short guided coherence breathing practice you can do right along with the episode. Your watch isn't necessarily broken. And neither are you. Curious to see what connecting with your breath can do to support your midlife wellness? Learn more about the Breathwork Pathfinder session here >> Breathwork 1-1 with 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  2. Aug 26

    Ep 150 Midlife as a Second Spring: The Season Nobody Told You About

    What are you really longing for when you wish you could get back to who you used to be? It's almost never about the old body or the old energy. It's about wanting a different relationship with your life, and that's found ahead of you, not behind. In this milestone one hundred and fiftieth episode, and the final part of a three-part series, Carly explores why the strategies that got you here won't necessarily carry you forward, why the grief of midlife deserves to be honoured before we rush to the reframe, and the idea, drawn from Kate Codrington's book Second Spring, that midlife isn't a decline but a whole new season of growth with its own fruits. With a client story, a piece of Carly's own, and a gentle question worth sitting with: is something twinkling for you? Part 3 of 3. A gentle note: this episode touches on grief and loss of identity in midlife with care. If this has stirred something, and you'd love someone alongside you as you step into your own next season, I'd be honoured to be that person. That's the whole heart of my Embodied Strength Profile: Learn more 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  3. Aug 19

    Ep 149 Feeling Overwhelmed? You Don't Need Another Plan

    When you look at your life, your health, your body, does it feel like such a tangled mess that you don't even know where to begin? The sleep, the energy, the eating, the stress, the aches, the hormones, the mood, and on, and on, and on. Faced with all of it, most of us either freeze and do nothing, or try to overhaul everything at once and crash within days. In the second of a three-part series, Carly offers a gentler third way: not another plan, but the clarity to know where to actually begin. It's never just one thing, but it's never everything either. Featuring a real client story and an analogy about renovating a house you can't move out of, this episode helps the whole overwhelming tangle start to make sense. If joining the dots on your own has started to feel like too much, this is exactly where I come in. You can book an Embodied Strength Profile with me here, and we'll make sense of the tangle together. 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  4. Aug 12

    Ep 148 What If Your Body Isn't the Problem?

    You've tried harder. You've been stricter, more disciplined, more consistent. You've read the books and listened to the podcasts. So why doesn't anything seem to stick anymore, and why have you started to wonder whether the problem is you? In the first of a three-part series, Carly shares a shift that changes everything: what if your body was never the problem? What if it isn't fighting you or letting you down, but quietly trying to protect you all along? Drawing on fifteen years of supporting women through menopause, burnout, chronic illness and every kind of life transition, and on her own hard-won lessons, Carly explores how to move from fighting your body to working with it, with a real client story that shows what becomes possible when you stop treating yourself like something to fix. Ready for 1-1 support in person or online? Explore the Embodied Strength Profile 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  5. Aug 5

    Ep. 147 Feeling Behind on Your Goals? The Toxic Productivity Myth

    Feeling behind on your goals now the year's more than half gone?  This episode offers a gentler truth. Carly explores Lughnasadh, the Celtic festival of the first harvest, and what it can teach us about midlife, menopause, and our relationship with time.  Rather than buying into the cultural pressure to "finish the year strong," she invites a kinder reframe. Some things in us are ripe and ready to gather, while others are still quietly becoming, and that's exactly as it should be.  Drawing on her own reflections from the past year, what's ripened, what's fallen away, and what's still just a seed, Carly explores patience, discernment, trusting your own timing, and the idea of perimenopause as a "second spring." If you're curious about this work and are not sure where to start... maybe take a look at the Embodied Strength Profile a next step you can trust. 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  6. Jul 29

    Ep 146 Why You Can't Switch Off and What To Do About It

    You're tired, but somehow also wired. Rest doesn't quite rest you. You can't seem to switch off. This episode explains why, and it's genuinely not your fault. You have an ancient, beautifully designed scanning system doing its best in a modern world that almost never gives it the all clear it's waiting for, where an email could be wonderful, neutral or awful, and they all look exactly the same. But here's the twist: the answer isn't only more calm. I share why a permanently calm nervous system isn't actually the goal… and what turns out to be far more useful. There's a lovely parallel with strength training, a confession about my own back-to-back aerobics years, and a gentler way of understanding yourself that changes things on its own. If you're curious about this work and are not sure where to start... maybe take a look at the Embodied Strength Profile a next step you can trust. 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  7. Jul 22

    Ep 145 Decide Once: How to Save Your Mental Energy and Get Things Done

    Three clients, in three separate conversations this week, said a version of the same thing  and when something knocks three times, I pay attention. They'd each realised they were spending huge amounts of energy not on doing a thing, but on repeatedly deciding whether to do it. And when they decided once, instead of over and over, something opened up. More got done  and they felt lighter. This is a practical episode about decision fatigue, open loops, and a beautifully simple, well-evidenced tool for closing them. It's not about more willpower or hustle... it's the opposite. Think of it as discipline for people who are tired. Which, let's be honest, is most of us. For Breathwork support find me at stillspacehull.com For strength and menopause coaching visit 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

  8. Jul 15

    Ep 144 The Labels We Carry Into Midlife: And What They're Costing You

    On a recent Wonder Walk down by the Hull marina, I spotted a boat with a name painted on the side, which became the inspiration for this week’s episode. The words that get stuck to us when we're small, and the surprisingly expensive project of trying to outrun them.  I share the true cost of the labels we are often given without our consent and the one question that might just flip your perspective: what if the thing you were told was wrong with you was never a defect at all? Are you in search of a guide to support your midlife transitions? Get it touch at stillspacehull.com and 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: @carlykillencoach 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 @carlykillencoach 🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

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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
    151
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 Rooted In Presence
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