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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.Welcome home.

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Ep 156 Life After Breathwork

Rooted In Presence ·

2026/10/08

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 ha...

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Ep 155 "I Don't Even Know What I Need"

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2026/09/30

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...

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Ep 154 I Just Want Everything to Stay the Same

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2026/09/23

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 Str...

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15:50

Ep 153 Are You Too Busy Being Healthy to Enjoy Your...

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2026/09/16

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 ...

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14:39

Ep 152 Do Your Really Need to Finish the Year STRONG?

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2026/09/09

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 t...

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21:33

Ep 151 Watch Your Breath, Not Your Tracker: What HRV...

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2026/09/02

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 mornin...

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17:52

Ep 150 Midlife as a Second Spring: The Season Nobody...

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2026/08/26

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...

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Ep 149 Feeling Overwhelmed? You Don't Need Another Plan

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2026/08/19

When you look at your life, your health, your body, does it feel like such a tangled mess that you don't even know where to begin? The sleep, the energy, the eating, the stress, the aches, the hormones, the mood, and on, and on, and on. Faced with all of it, most of us either freeze and do nothing, or try to overhaul everything at once and crash within days. In the second of a three-part series, Carly offers a gentler third way: not another plan, but the clarity to know where to actually begi...

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Ep 148 What If Your Body Isn't the Problem?

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2026/08/12

You've tried harder. You've been stricter, more disciplined, more consistent. You've read the books and listened to the podcasts. So why doesn't anything seem to stick anymore, and why have you started to wonder whether the problem is you? In the first of a three-part series, Carly shares a shift that changes everything: what if your body was never the problem? What if it isn't fighting you or letting you down, but quietly trying to protect you all along? Drawing on fifteen years of supportin...

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16:20

Ep. 147 Feeling Behind on Your Goals? The Toxic...

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2026/08/05

Feeling behind on your goals now the year's more than half gone? This episode offers a gentler truth. Carly explores Lughnasadh, the Celtic festival of the first harvest, and what it can teach us about midlife, menopause, and our relationship with time. Rather than buying into the cultural pressure to "finish the year strong," she invites a kinder reframe. Some things in us are ripe and ready to gather, while others are still quietly becoming, and that's exactly as it should be.&n...

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19:53

Ep 146 Why You Can't Switch Off and What To Do About It

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2026/07/29

You're tired, but somehow also wired. Rest doesn't quite rest you. You can't seem to switch off. This episode explains why, and it's genuinely not your fault. You have an ancient, beautifully designed scanning system doing its best in a modern world that almost never gives it the all clear it's waiting for, where an email could be wonderful, neutral or awful, and they all look exactly the same. But here's the twist: the answer isn't only more calm. I share why a permanently calm nervous syste...

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20:47

Ep 145 Decide Once: How to Save Your Mental Energy...

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2026/07/22

Three clients, in three separate conversations this week, said a version of the same thing and when something knocks three times, I pay attention. They'd each realised they were spending huge amounts of energy not on doing a thing, but on repeatedly deciding whether to do it. And when they decided once, instead of over and over, something opened up. More got done and they felt lighter. This is a practical episode about decision fatigue, open loops, and a beautifully simple, well-e...

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23:08

Ep 144 The Labels We Carry Into Midlife: And What...

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2026/07/15

On a recent Wonder Walk down by the Hull marina, I spotted a boat with a name painted on the side, which became the inspiration for this week’s episode. The words that get stuck to us when we're small, and the surprisingly expensive project of trying to outrun them. I share the true cost of the labels we are often given without our consent and the one question that might just flip your perspective: what if the thing you were told was wrong with you was never a defect at all? Are you in ...

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25:06

Ep 143 Midlife and the MIRROR: What Your Changing...

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2026/07/08

Content note: this episode gently touches on restrictive and disordered eating. Nothing graphic, and held with care but please look after yourself and come back another time if that feels kinder today. This week I had a photo taken that, completely by chance, mirrored one from my very first photoshoot five years ago. Same pose. Same kind of setting. Two very different women; or rather, the same woman, with far more of herself available to bring to the moment. This episode is about what ...

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Ep 142 Feeling Stuck? You Might Have More Choice Than...

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2026/07/01

A shorter, gentler one about choice; not the tidy 'take control of your life' kind, but the honest kind. The choices we don't realise we're making, the ones we only spot after they've passed, and why 'I get to' doesn't always feel true when life is hard. If you've been feeling stuck lately, come and sit with this one. Interested in exploring your life choices more deeply? Get in touch at carlykillen.com Thanks for listening to Rooted In Presence If you’d like to get in touch with a que...

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18:52

Ep 141 Strength After 40: Are Your Best Days Behind You?

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2026/06/24

We've just passed the summer solstice; the peak of the light, and the precise moment it begins, very gently, to turn. It got me thinking about the thresholds we meet in midlife, and one in particular: strength. In this episode I share a story about the heaviest weight I ever lifted on a competition platform and what happened next. We get into the actual physiology of strength and ageing, why the cliff-edge narrative is wrong, and what genuinely changes whether you've trained for decades, are ...

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16:25

Ep 140 Are You Waiting For Joy? Here's What You're...

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2026/06/17

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 it's already here, quietly woven through the ordinary moments we're moving too fast to notice? In this episode I share a moment from a recent Wonder Walk that caught me completely off guard, a card about an egg that gave me permission to stop interpreting ev...

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18:40

Ep139 Don't Let Regret Steal The Life You Have Now

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2026/06/10

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 awakening. It's something I've lived through more than once. And it's something I sit with my clients through regularly. Come and have a listen. I think you might recognise yourself in this one. In this episode: — The grief of arrival — what it is and why it m...

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Ep 28 The One Thing Menopause Can't Take From You And...

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2026/06/03

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 like too much. This week I learned something about butterflies that I haven't been able to stop thinking about. Inside the chrysalis, the caterpillar doesn't just change. It dissolves. Almost completely. And yet, one thing survives. Intact. Through all of...

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16:20

Ep 137. Space Before Schduling: What Your Wellness...

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2026/05/27

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 the question that kept arising was this: could you plan your downtime as much as you plan your workout time? In episode 137, Carly explores why scheduling the decompression first, before adding anything new, is often the missing piece. She introduces the c...

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