Rooted In Presence
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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Episodes
140 episodes
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...
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 awakeni...
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 li...
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 ...
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 co...
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 m...
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 f...
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 Ba...
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.
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...
Ep 130 Lead With Your Bones Part One: Your Bones Are Alive
When you picture your bones, what do you see? Most of us imagine something rigid and inert, a coat hanger, a Halloween skeleton. Something that just hangs there in the dark while the rest of us gets on with living.But that picture is wro...
Ep 129 When Everything Shifts: Staying Rooted In Menopause
The clocks went forward last weekend. And the night before, Carly did something she does every year without thinking, she left her kitchen clock on the old time. Just as a quiet check. A way to hold both times at once while the world shifted ov...
Ep 128 Small Habits Big Moments
What if the small things you're already doing are quietly setting you up for the moments that matter most?In this episode, Carly shares a client story that stopped her in her tracks this week and gets personal about hospital, how a...
Ep 127 What Aerial Taught Me About Being a MIDLIFE Beginner
This week I did something a little outside my usual world I went to an aerial silks and hoop class. And what I didn't expect was how much it would bring up.Body stuff. Beginner feelings. And for the first time in a long time... an unexpe...
Ep 126 Nervous System Care vs Regulation: Why I'm Rethinking the Language
In this episode, I'm exploring a shift in language that I think matters more than it might first appear... the difference between nervous system regulation and nervous system care.We've all heard 'regulate your nervous system.' But what ...
125 From Obligation to Overflow: Giving That Doesn't Deplete You
TW: Fawn response, trauma response discussion.It's International Women's Day week, and this year's theme is "Give to Gain." But what if you're already depleted? What if you're already giving everything you have?In this episode of...
124. Burnout, Business, and Redefining Success in Midlife: My Story
This week’s episode is a little different.I was invited onto Matt Robinson’s podcast Fitness Business Insights to talk about my journey,...
123: Tired, Wired, and No Time to Relax? Here's What Actually Helps
Tired but can't switch off? Wired but exhausted? Feel like you don't have time to relax and when you do, it leaves you foggy instead of restored?You're not alone. And the answer might not be what you think....
122 The Self-Love Myth: Why You're Still Holding Your Breath
Are you still looking for self love?You've done the affirmations. You've tried to "love yourself more." Maybe you've even achieved the body, the goals, the external validation you thought would make you feel enough.But you're stil...
121 Menopause Brain Fog: What’s Really Happening in Your Brain, Body and Nervous System
Forgetfulness, difficulty finding words, reduced focus, and that unsettling sense of mental “fuzziness” are common in midlife but they’re not a personal failing.In this episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly Killen explores menopa...
120: Nervous System Signals that Make Menopause Make Sense
What if many of your "menopause symptoms" are actually nervous system signals?In this episode of Rooted in Presence, we explore why anxiety, sleep issues, emotional sensitivity, and overwhelm intensify during menopause—and how your nervo...
119 Taking Up Space In Midlife: What No-one Tells You
We're often told to "take up space" to be bold, visible, and unapologetic. But what if the real work isn't about being louder... but about learning to hold space?In this episode of Rooted in Presence, we explore the difference between ta...
118 Is This Stopping Your Midlife Growth? The Pattern You Haven't Noticed
What if the thing stopping your midlife growth isn't lack of effort, but a pattern you haven't noticed yet?In this episode of Rooted in Presence, we explore the hidden trap that keeps high-achieving midlife women stuck in cycles of burno...
117 Recommitting to Yourself in Midlife: A Rooted Approach to Intentions
January often arrives with loud messages about fixing, pushing, and starting over. This episode offers something quieter.In this episode of Rooted in Presence, we explore what it means to recommit to yourself in midlife...
Before You Change Everything: How to Begin January with Clarity
January often comes with pressure to start fresh, set goals, and transform overnight. But what if this moment isn’t about pushing forward… it’s about pausing first?In this New Year’s Day episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly invi...