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 burnout: growing faster than your nervous system can handle.

Host Carly Killen shares her own pattern of constant forward motion, always reaching for the next thing, never quite landing in the space she'd created and how that drive for growth eventually caught up with her. Twice.

Using the mountain climbing metaphor of "base camps," this episode reveals what sustainable growth actually looks like: not constant forward motion, but cycles of reaching, resting, and integrating.

You'll discover:

• The pattern that turns personal development into burnout
• Why growth without safety becomes survival
• The four types of base camps you need (place, practice, person, internal knowing)
• How to ground yourself when the mental chatter gets loud
• Questions that help you build infrastructure for sustainable growth
• What Still Space Hull is and the vision behind creating a physical base camp

This episode is for you if you love personal development but suspect there's a more sustainable way. If you're navigating midlife transitions, recovering from burnout, or learning to trust your own pace instead of someone else's timeline.

Plus, Carly shares the vulnerable reality of opening Still Space Hull, her breath work studio in Hull, and extends an invitation to the February opening ceremony.

Topics: midlife burnout, sustainable personal growth, nervous system regulation, perimenopause transitions, breathwork, building resilience, growth patterns, rest and integration, base camp philosophy, midlife women's health

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