Rooted In Presence

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: @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! 💪🦴✨

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: @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 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: @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! 💪🦴✨

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: @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! 💪🦴✨

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: @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! 💪🦴✨

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: @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! 💪🦴✨

Two years ago, I pressed record on the very first episode of this podcast. Back then, it was The Strong Bones Coach Podcast, a space dedicated to building stronger bodies and stronger bones. But as the conversations deepened, so did the calling.

This milestone episode marks the beginning of a new chapter: Rooted in Presence.

In today’s conversation, I share:
 🌿 Why I started the podcast in the first place
 🌿 The quiet nudge that told me it was time to change
 🌿 The synchronicity of “RIP” and the question that’s shaped my life: What if this were my last decade?
🌿 What you can expect from Rooted in Presence as we move forward together

If you’ve been here since the beginning—thank you for walking this journey with me. And if you’re new here, welcome. You’ve arrived at a beautiful time.

Because this space isn’t about fixing yourself—it’s about remembering yourself. Coming home. Rooted, steady, present.

✨ If you’re ready to explore what presence could mean in your own midlife, book a free Clarity Call with me 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: @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! 💪🦴✨

Midlife isn’t a restart, it’s a remembering.

This episode is an invitation to call back the parts of you that have been quiet for too long, the ones hidden under survival, pleasing, and performing.

 We’ll explore the realms of reclamation, inspired by Women Who Run With the Wolves and the Bodies of Breath: creativity, sensuality, healing, sexuality, timelines, magic, and the wisdom beyond endings.

You’ll hear how these aren’t lofty concepts but living, breathing parts of you that can return through the simplest of moments.

Because integration isn’t just about the big turning points. It’s the daily act of carrying your truth into the most ordinary places of your life.

If you’re ready to return to your own centre and live from a place of truth, not performance, let’s talk.

Book your Clarity Call here

Resources and Mentions

Women Who Run With the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Audio -  Paperback )

 The Bodies of Breath was taken from my Breathwork training at Breathing Space. If you'd like to find out more about becoming a Breathwork coach or facilitator find out more here: The Exhale Awakening

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! 💪🦴✨

We’ve been told for years that consistency is the golden ticket to success.

Wake up early, hit your steps, stick to the plan, no matter what. 

And sure, that works… until it doesn’t. Especially in midlife, when your body, hormones, energy, and nervous system all play by new rules.

In this episode, I’m reframing consistency... shifting it from rigid repetition to something I call compassionate consistency. 

It’s about staying in right relationship with yourself, honouring your rhythms, and creating trust in your own follow-through… even when life isn’t neat.

We’ll explore:

• Why rigid routines can backfire for women in midlife
• How your nervous system really responds to repetition
• The difference between self-consistency and routine-consistency
• Tiny, grounding rituals that anchor you without pressure
• The power of values, motivation, and self-honesty in building sustainable change

This isn’t about doing more... it’s about holding more.
 Not punishing. Not perfect. Just present.

Press play to discover why slow, steady, and self-aligned will always beat hustle in the long run.

If you’re ready to step off the treadmill of “shoulds” and build rhythms that actually work for you, we can explore it together.

 Book a free clarity call, and let’s talk about where you are now, what you want next, and how we can get you there in a way that feels sustainable.

 Book your Clarity Call 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! 💪🦴✨

You’ve heard menopause is “natural.” But natural doesn’t mean effortless... and it certainly doesn’t mean support isn’t needed.

In this expansive and empowering episode, we reframe menopause not as something to fix, but as a profound rite of passage. A threshold. A second spring.

Join me as we explore:

• What’s really happening with your hormones: oestrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, and how they impact bone, muscle, mood, and more
• The real stages of menopause: pre-menopause, perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause
• Why so many of us feel off-balance in midlife and why you’re not broken
• The deep cultural silence around this transition, and how to reclaim your voice
• How this season of life offers a return to your core values, clarity, and strength
• Why “second spring” isn’t about going backwards, it’s about emerging with more of your self intact

This episode is part education, part validation, part invitation. Wherever you are on the menopause path, this conversation is for you.

You’re not behind. You’re not broken. You’re blooming in your own time.

If you want to feel supported and held with an experienced guide to walk beside you, perhaps you'd like to meet for a chat to see how we might get on. Book a free Clarity Call here → https://www.carlykillen.com

Mentioned in this episode:
📚 Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés
📘 NHS guidance on menopause → https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/menopause/

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! 💪🦴✨