Rooted In Presence

Stand behind a stall for a few hours and people tell you things. Quick things, in passing, on their way somewhere else.

And after a while Carly noticed that a lot of them were saying the same four or five sentences. Not for people like me. Too late for me now. Tried it once, wasn't for me. I can't, because of how I am.

Almost none of them had actually tried the thing they were ruling out.

This episode works through four of those sentences, using breathwork as the example, though the breathwork is almost beside the point. Because these sentences feel like facts about ourselves, and most of them have never been tested. There's also a small practice to try this week, and it isn't a breathing technique.

And if the thing you've been ruling out happens to be breathwork, the Breathwork Pathfinder Session is ninety minutes one to one to find out what it's actually like rather than what you've imagined. No performance, no sitting still required. 

In person at Still Space Hull or online: https://stillspacehull.com/workshops

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:
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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.
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🌟 Stay connected and inspired with daily wellness tips on Instagram @carlykillencoach
🌟 For tailored advice or personal queries, email me at [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

Sixteen beanbags. Eight people. Absolute chaos.

Carly ran an exercise recently with a workplace wellbeing team, and what happened when she told them only four of the beanbags mattered says a lot about how most of us are living.

This episode is about what you're keeping in the air, and the difference between dropping something and putting it down on purpose. With a well-known metaphor about glass and rubber balls, and Carly’s take that might just make it make sense for a busy, stressed out midlifer.

If you can see there's too much but you can't work out which bits matter most right now, that's what the Embodied Strength Profile is for. Unhurried time together, a clear sense of what deserves your focus, and permission to put some things down. 

In person at Still Space Hull or online, wherever you are: https://carlykillen.com/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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

You've been somewhere lovely. A retreat, a wedding, a holiday, a weekend with people you adore. You felt open and warm and more like yourself than you have in ages.

And then it's Tuesday, and you're flat.

Not depressed. Not upset. Just oddly deflated, with the washing still there and nothing actually wrong. And then the unhelpful thought arrives: what is wrong with me, I've just had this beautiful thing.

This episode is about the drop, and why almost nobody warns you about it. What the psychology actually says, why the peak was the deviation rather than the flatness, and why you might not need to fix this at all.

And if what you're sitting in feels bigger than a post-retreat dip, more like a whole season you don't quite recognise, the free Midlife Presence Archetype quiz might help. It takes two minutes and tells you which of the four phases is with you right now, with a podcast episode, a breath practice and some reflection prompts to suit it: TAKE THE MIDLIFE PRESENCE ARCHETYPE QUIZ

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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

What does ice cream have to do with breathwork aftercare?

Integration is a word that gets used a lot, and usually what people mean by it is a glass of water and five minutes of journaling. Tick. Done.

But after a recent retreat at the studio, run by Carly's breathwork mentors The Exhale Awakening, the group ended up going for ice cream and a Wonder Walk together. And that may well have been better integration than any amount of journaling would have managed that day.

This one is about what happens after you leave the room. Including the bit nobody mentions: what to do when a session asks something of you that you don't feel ready for.

If you'd like somewhere to come back to, you'd be very welcome at Still Space Hull. Monthly sessions and evening sessions, with all the details here: 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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

Carly asked for a pink iced donut. She got a pink iced donut. It just wasn't the one she meant.

When weight comes off and nothing really changes. 

The promotion arrives and the fulfilment doesn't. 

Everything looks fine on paper and something still feels off. 

In this episode Carly shares her thoughts about why that happens, why it doesn't make you ungrateful, and three things that help when you can't name what you actually need (and what a doughnut has got to do with it).

Also, a thank you. The podcast has just passed ten thousand downloads.

If something feels off and you can't put a name to it, that's exactly what the Embodied Strength Profile is for. Not for people arriving with a neat list, but for working out what's going on underneath the thing you think you should be asking for. In person at Still Space Hull or online, wherever you are: Find out more about 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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

Carly used to want everything to stay the same. Change felt sudden, big and destabilising, no matter how much notice she got.

This episode looks at why change can feel so hard for the nervous system, and a few things that really help. Including the bit that often gets missed in wellness spaces: the difference between resting to restore yourself and resting to endure something you don't need to stay in.

If you'd like someone alongside you while things are shifting, that's what the Embodied Strength Profile is for. We pull the threads together and find a grounded next step you can trust. In person at Still Space Hull or online, wherever you are find out more here https://carlykillen.com/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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

What if your health was never meant to be the main event of your life, but the thing that makes your life possible?

Carly shares a Wonder Walk that turned into sea shanties, a pirate ship tour and a local play, none of it planned, and what it revealed about availability. Then a client story about the chocolate eaten in the car before walking through the front door, and what happened when the food noise finally quietened.

A gentle content note: this episode touches on a difficult relationship with food, including restriction and overeating. Nothing graphic, discussed sensitively.

If you'd like some help finding your next step, that's exactly what the Embodied Strength Profile is for. 

Unhurried time together, one connected picture, and a next step you can trust rather than a list of everything you should be doing. 

In person at Still Space Hull or online, wherever you are Enquire HERE.

To explore Breathwork and holistic coaching visit 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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

There's a message doing the rounds every September. Only so many weeks left of the year, so let's finish strong, make them count, don't waste the last stretch.

And there's something real in it. Autumn can bring genuine energy. But that message tends to be delivered as though it applies to everyone equally, and we are heading into autumn and then winter, not spring. 

In this episode, Carly offers a gentler alternative to cramming everything into the final months. Not fifteen things. One thing, chosen well, with enough room left over for the commitments, the socialising and the rest you're going to need. With practical examples, her own choice for this last stretch, and an honest word about why knowing which one thing is yours is the genuinely hard part.

If you'd like some help finding your one thing, that's exactly what the Embodied Strength Profile is for. 

Unhurried time together, one connected picture, and a next step you can trust rather than a list of everything you should be doing. 

In person at Still Space Hull or online, wherever you are Enquire HERE.

To explore Breathwork and holistic coaching visit 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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨

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: [email protected]
📱 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 [email protected]

Thank you for being here, and I look forward to supporting you on your journey to strength, health, and confidence! 💪🦴✨