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Training only works if you let your body absorb it and bounce back. Here’s how to channel your inner superball.

By Selene Yeager

Hard training bouts are designed to stress your body. They empty out your glycogen stores. They create micro-tears in your muscles. They tax your cardiovascular...

The same brain training that gets you over tough athletic hurdles can make menopausal challenges easier.

By Selene Yeager

As athletes, we train our brains all the time. When our legs start screaming at mile 17 of a marathon, we focus on our breath and practice positive self-talk. We visualiz...

Skip the stigma and the shame. Self-love is good for the mind, body, and spirit.

By Selene Yeager

Sometimes our Hit Play Not Pause podcast guests ask if there are any topics that are off-limits. The answer is always, "Nope!" If anything, we seek to push the limits in our discussions, coverin...

Information—and disinformation—is everywhere. How much do we know about menopause now?

By Selene Yeager 

Menopause is seemingly everywhere right now. It’s on the Super Bowl. It’s on The Drew Barrymore Show (if you didn’t see Drew having her first hot flash with Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sand...

The journey through menopause can be challenging. Here’s a checklist to help smooth the way.

By Selene Yeager

Welcome to the menopause transition, a time when you travel from premenopause to postmenopause. The transition is the result of your reproductive system shutting down shop and the ho...

Midlife and menopausal women still lag well behind men in cardiac awareness and care. Here’s how to make heart health a top priority. 

By Selene Yeager

I’ve been writing this same story for years: millions of women are dying unnecessarily from heart disease. We don’t receive the same prevent...

Fat can be your friend (it's true!). But deep belly fat (which you can't even see) is a health foe and it rises with menopause. Here's what helps keep belly fat at bay.

By Selene Yeager

We are not fat-phobic here at Feisty Menopause, as we know that body fat, especially at midlife, is not al...

Athletics and hormone decline can set the stage for dental disease. Here’s how to save your teeth.

By Selene Yeager 

Endurance sports are good for your heart and mind, but man they can wreak havoc on your teeth, and menopause can make the situation for your pearly whites even more precarious.

Foot pain becomes more common during the menopause transition. Here’s how to avoid aching, painful feet.

By Selene Yeager

Bunions and bone spurs and heel pain. Oh my, midlife can usher in a host of conditions that seem to conspire to (literally) knock us off our feet. Foot pain comes in many...

by Selene Yeager

Our first Feisty Menopause Performance Retreat blew me away…and in some very unexpected ways.

We descended on Lake Nona ready to learn. A dozen women confident enough in who they are to be fully open to who they could become. Women who have embraced menopause as a time to turn thei...

Low on mojo? What fires you up can change in menopause and midlife, but it doesn’t mean the flame is gone. It just needs a different fan.

Selene Yeager

Dragging yourself through the motions more often than not these days? You’re not alone. The physical and psychological changes that occur du...

Can these fungi help with mood swings, brain fog, and other menopause symptoms? Science is trying to find out.

By Selene Yeager

Mushrooms are having a moment. People have used mushrooms medicinally for thousands of years. But they’re currently enjoying a surge in popularity in the mainstream...