We’ve all heard the saying, “life doesn’t get easier, you get stronger.”

 But what does that really mean in midlife, when your body, hormones, and energy are shifting?

In this episode, Carly explores the real meaning of strength, beyond muscle, beyond mindset.

 She shares how resistance training builds confidence, resilience, and presence (and why the science backs it up), while also unpacking what it means to be strong without bracing or burning out.

You’ll learn:

• Why consistency matters more than intensity in strength and life
• How resistance training supports women’s mental health and self-worth
• The difference between pushing through and standing rooted
• How to cultivate emotional and physical strength with compassion

Because midlife doesn’t have to get easier; you just get wiser, steadier, and stronger in all the right ways.

Resources: 

Doing the Heavy Lifting: Why Strength Sports Could Be Key for Women’s Mental Health. Link >>https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/the-researchers-source/publish-with-impact-blogpost/sdg3-women-mental-health-strength-sports/27695318

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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

As the year speeds up and festive demands grow louder, it’s easy to slip into over-giving and overwhelm. 

In this week’s episode, Carly explores the real meaning of loving boundaries; not walls that shut people out, but limits that protect your nervous system, energy, and sense of self.

Discover why saying “no” can actually be one of the most caring things you do, how to navigate the guilt that comes with it, and how boundaries help your body move out of fight-or-flight so it can rest and rebalance.

Whether you’re entering midlife, menopause, or simply feeling stretched thin, this episode invites you to say yes to what truly matters.

Resources:

Women's Menopausal Experiences in the UK: A SystemicLiterature Review of Qualitative Studies. Link >>  https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.70167

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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

In this week’s episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly explores a question that quietly shapes so many of our midlife experiences

“When an old pattern resurfaces; is it a relapse, or a revisit?”

From burnout and busyness to the emotional loops that show up during perimenopause, Carly shares how these revisits aren’t signs of failure, they’re proof of integration.

She talks about her own turning point; the moment a simple breath became the bridge back to her body and how revisiting old habits can actually deepen your resilience, compassion, and capacity for joy.

This episode is an invitation to soften your self-talk, reframe your growth, and see how every return holds wisdom.

🎧 Tune in if you’ve ever felt like you were “back where you started”  you might just realise you’re further along than you think.

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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

In this reflective episode, Carly explores what the trees, and the rhythm of autumn can teach us about navigating change in midlife and menopause.

Drawing from personal stories of burnout, breathwork, and renewal, she explores how the natural cycles of nourishment, release, and rest mirror our own seasons of transition; especially through menopause and other midlife shifts.

You’ll hear about:
 🍂 Why slowing down doesn’t mean giving up
 🌳 How to stay grounded when everything feels uncertain
 🌿 What nature can teach us about protecting what matters most
 ✨ Simple practices to stay rooted through change

This episode is a gentle invitation to trust your own rhythm, to find steadiness in the season you’re in, and to remember, letting go is not the end, it’s part of the cycle of becoming.

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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

In this week’s episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly is joined by Laura Starky, a trauma-informed integrative somatic therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, and someone who’s walked the messy, beautiful path of healing herself.

Together they explore what it really means to come home to the body after years of disconnection.
From alcohol and overworking to people-pleasing and emotional eating, Laura shares how old coping patterns can gently unravel when we learn to listen inwardly.

✨ In this conversation:

• The difference between coping and true connection
• How to rebuild safety and trust in the body through somatic awareness
• The role of stillness, movement, and patience in healing
• Why compassion and curiosity matter more than control
• How nervous-system-based practices create real, embodied change

Laura’s grounded wisdom reminds us that healing isn’t about fixing ourselves, it’s about remembering that wholeness was never lost.

🎧 Tune in for an honest, soothing, and practical conversation about returning to your body, one moment at a time.

🔗 Connect with Laura Starky: https://www.somatic-wellness.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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

We hear a lot about midlife transformation; reinvention, breakthroughs, new beginnings.
 But what no one tells you is that the real transformation often happens quietly, between the breaths.

In this week’s episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly shares her personal story of burnout, perimenopause, and rediscovering her grounding through breathwork.

 It wasn’t a dramatic moment that changed her life, it was what came after.
Integration. Gentle awareness. Everyday presence.

✨ In this episode:

• How midlife can unravel old patterns and reveal what’s true
• The surprising link between breath, grounding, and emotional stability
• How to create sustainable change that supports your nervous system

🎧 Tune in and find out what real transformation in midlife feels like, soft, steady, and wonderfully human.

To explore more support book a free 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: [email protected]
📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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 it really mean to feel grounded?

In this week’s episode of Rooted in Presence, Carly explores the science and soul of grounding and why it matters so much in midlife.

From hormone changes in perimenopause and menopause to the emotional shifts of parenting, caregiving, and career transitions, many of us lose our sense of stability. Carly shares her own journey from feeling completely ungrounded during burnout and ADHD diagnosis, to discovering a nourishing sense of rooted presence while walking barefoot through an Ibiza villa.

Listen in to learn:
 - The difference between heaviness and groundedness
 - How grounding works scientifically—through the Earth’s natural electrical charge and the exchange of electrons that reduce inflammation and calm the nervous system
 - Simple breath and body-based grounding practices you can use anywhere
 - Why grounding becomes essential for nervous-system balance and hormone health in midlife

If you’ve been feeling scattered, overstimulated, or disconnected from your body, this episode is your invitation to come home to yourself, one breath and one barefoot step at a time.

🎧 Listen now and explore more support at carlykillen.com
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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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

Who are you when the roles shift?

In midlife, so many of us feel the ground move beneath us. Children grow, parents age, careers evolve, bodies change. And suddenly, the roles we’ve been living inside: mother, partner, achiever, caregiver, don’t define us in the same way.

This episode is an invitation to explore what lies beneath those shifting identities.

I share personal stories of how my relationship with my daughter has changed as she grows into young adulthood, and how burnout challenged the way I’d tied my worth to work. Both moments invited me to reconnect with my values, the deeper roots beneath the surface.

We’ll explore:

- Why midlife so often stirs questions of identity

- How survival roles shape us and what happens when they no longer fit

- What values can offer when roles shift or fall away

- How to re-anchor yourself in presence during transitions

You're not losing yourself, you're remembering that your roots run deeper than your titles.

If you’re navigating menopause, empty nesting, caregiving, or just that inner sense of change, this one’s for you.

Ready for deeper support as you navigate this season? 

Book a free 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: [email protected]
📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

We’ve been told to focus on “eating right”... counting calories, tracking macros, following the perfect plan. Nutrition matters, yes. But nourishment? Nourishment changes everything.

In this episode of Rooted in Presence, I explore how midlife calls us to move beyond food rules and into a deeper, kinder relationship with eating. As a dietitian for over 15 years, I know the science... but I'm also aware that food is about more than fuel. 

It’s about care, pleasure, presence, and connection.

We’ll explore:
 🌿 The difference between nutrition and nourishment
 🌿 Why midlife is the perfect time to shift how we relate to food
 🌿 My Eat 4 Peace method and how it helps you find calm with eating
 🌿 Simple rituals to bring presence to your meals
 🌿 Why pleasure, connection, and slowing down matter as much as protein and fibre

This isn’t about rules or rigidity, but finding a way of eating that truly supports you.

✨ Ready for deeper support with food, breath, or midlife rhythms? Book a free 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: [email protected]
📱 Instagram: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨

Change, even the good kind, can leave us feeling wobbly, disoriented, or untethered. In this episode, I share a story about repotting plants for my new Breathwork studio, Still Space Hull, and how it mirrors the experience of midlife change.

Just like plants, we can experience our own kind of “repotting shock” when we step into something new. Old roots are disrupted. Familiar ground feels shaky. And yet, this is how growth happens.

You’ll hear:
 🌱 What repotting shock can teach us about midlife transitions
 🌱 Why feeling unsteady doesn’t mean you’re failing—it means you’re adjusting
 🌱 The small supports (props, environment, nourishment) that help us re-root
 🌱 How to give yourself time, compassion, and presence as you settle into new soil

Because thriving in midlife isn’t about avoiding change, it’s about learning how to stay rooted through it.

✨ Listen in, and find your way to steadiness... even in new ground.

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: @thestrongbonescoach

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 @thestrongbonescoach.
🌟 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! 💪🦴✨