Rooted In Presence

Carly Killen

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.

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Wednesday · 17 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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August 19 · 14 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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August 12 · 11 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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August 5 · 16 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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July 29 · 19 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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July 22 · 20 min
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! 💪🦴✨
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July 15 · 23 min
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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July 8 · 25 min
Ep 143 Midlife and the MIRROR: What Your Changing Reflection Is Really Telling You
Content note: this episode gently touches on restrictive and disordered eating. Nothing graphic, and held with care but please look after yourself and come back another time if that feels kinder today. This week I had a photo taken that, completely by chance, mirrored one from my very first photoshoot five years ago. Same pose. Same kind of setting. Two very different women; or rather, the same woman, with far more of herself available to bring to the moment. This episode is about what our reflection really shows us, and why, especially in midlife, the changing face in the mirror often isn't a problem to fix but an inner self asking to be met. I share the story of freezing in front of a camera in 2021, an idea about why we were never meant to scrutinise ourselves the way we do now, and what genuinely shifted in the years between those two photographs. If you want support navigating midlife shifts like these, get in touch at carlykillen.com Or discover your Midlife Presence Archetype free HERE for more resources to support your journey 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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July 1 · 14 min
Ep 142 Feeling Stuck? You Might Have More Choice Than You Think
A shorter, gentler one about choice; not the tidy 'take control of your life' kind, but the honest kind. The choices we don't realise we're making, the ones we only spot after they've passed, and why 'I get to' doesn't always feel true when life is hard. If you've been feeling stuck lately, come and sit with this one. Interested in exploring your life choices more deeply? Get in touch 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: @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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June 24 · 18 min
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: @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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June 17 · 16 min
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: @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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June 10 · 18 min
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: @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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June 3 · 20 min
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: @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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May 27 · 16 min
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: @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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May 20 · 20 min
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: @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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May 14 · 24 min
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: @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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May 6 · 23 min
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: @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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April 29 · 14 min
Ep 133 Trust Yourself More Than The Process
Are you drowning in conflicting health advice, trends and opinions? In this episode, Carly explores what it really means to trust yourself more than any plan, programme, or process, inspired by a powerful post from a former client, the Barbie movie, and and Indigo Girls song. She also explores how strength training and Breathwork are doorways to self-knowledge, and why midlife (and perimenopause especially) is a profound invitation to finally stop looking outside yourself for answers. This one is for every woman who's followed all the rules and still felt like something was missing. 🎧 Listen now and discover the Embodied Strength Profile at carlykillen.com Rooted in Presence is hosted by Carly Killen, Breathwork facilitator, strength coach and menopause coach based in Hull, East Yorkshire, and founder of Still Space Hull. The song I referenced: Closer to Fine, Indigo Girls 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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April 22 · 19 min
Ep 132 Lead With Your Bones Part 3: What Stress is Really Doing to Your Bones (and What Actually Helps)
Are you losing bone when you can’t do as much? It’s the question Carly left hanging at the end of part two and this week she answers it. In the final episode of the Lead With Your Bones series, Carly goes wider. Nutrition, stress, sleep, breath, circulation, and the emotional landscape that either nourishes or depletes your skeleton over time. Because bone health isn’t just about what you lift. It’s how you live. She explains why cortisol, the stress hormone so many midlife women are swimming in, directly suppresses bone building and why sleep is a bone health intervention. Why breathwork lowers cortisol. And why the things we do to manage stress are also, quietly, things we do for our bones. Topics covered: → The honest answer to ‘am I losing bone during a hard season’ and why it’s more hopeful than you think → Cortisol and bone loss, the direct, evidence-based connection most women have never been told → Why sleep is a bone health intervention → How breathwork supports your skeleton; the science, not just the experience → Nutrition for bone health beyond calcium → The bare minimum for your bones when life is hard Series finale. Find Carly at Still Space Hull book a free breathwork discovery call or an Embodied Strength Profile Assessment, online or in person 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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April 15 · 15 min
Ep 131 Lead with Your Bones part 2: How to Create Strong Bones
What does a decade working in an NHS hospital have to do with why you should be lifting weights? In part two of the Lead With Your Bones series, Carly draws on ten years as a clinical dietitian to explain why the patients who came in with more muscle on their bodies consistently did better. Because building bone and muscle isn’t about aesthetics. It’s about reserves. It’s about having a foundation to fall back on when life throws something at you, illness, surgery, grief, burnout, the relentlessness of midlife. Your bone bank and your muscle bank are the most practical investments in your future self you can make right now. In this episode Carly explains exactly why mechanical load drives bone building, introduces the fascinating muscle-bone communication system including myokines, makes a clear case for why strength training is particularly important during and after menopause, and gives practical guidance on what actually counts, and how to begin. Topics covered: → What Carly witnessed in a decade as an NHS dietitian and what it means for how you train now → Why mechanical load is the most important signal for bone building → The muscle-bone relationship, myokines, communication and why you can’t have one without the other → What counts as bone-loading exercise and what doesn’t → Why frequency matters more than intensity when you’re starting out → Why it is never too late to begin Part 2 of the Lead With Your Bones series. Find Carly and book an Embodied Strength Profile Assessment at Still Space Hull online and in person. 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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