Flipping the Script on What’s Possible in Your 50s with Debra Tacium, DMV (Episode 214)

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Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Veterinary surgeon Debbie Tacium, 55, wanted to flip the script of my menopause. After suffering pain, loss of coordination, weakness, and changes in body composition during perimenopause, she went back to the sport she loved most in life–gymnastics. She wanted to use it to bring herself back to herself and remember what it was like to be a child who could fly. This week she shares her journey, what it’s brought her, and what we can all learn from challenging our beliefs about what’s possible during this season of life.

Debbie (Debra) Tacium, DMV, works as a veterinary surgeon and is an adult gymnast, former competitive child and pre-teen gymnast, and all around self described “gymnastics nerd.” She came up through the sport in a time when you were schooled to push through pain and do what it took to be as small and light as possible. Acute and chronic injuries took her out of the sport until perimenopause when she returned to the sport determined to reclaim her body and open her mind to what was possible in your 50s. Now, she’s experiencing joy instead of heartbreak and excited about where she can go next.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing.
0:25.0	This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.7	Welcome to Hip Play Not Pause, the podcast where I absolutely will not be doing a cartwheel
0:39.0	on the balance beam, but my guess might. So I have such a great conversation for you this
0:45.0	week. A few weeks back, a veterinary surgeon in our community named Debbie Tasium reached out to me
0:52.0	and asked if I would be interested in talking to an adult gymnast for the show.
0:56.7	And she told me that at 55, she wanted to flip the script on menopause.
1:01.5	And after suffering pain and loss of coordination and weakness and changes in body composition during peri menopause,
1:08.3	she went back to the sport she loved most in life gymnastics and just
1:13.2	wanted to use it to bring herself back to herself and remember what it was like to be a child
1:18.5	who could fly. And I mean all the yeses, right? But the story was even more than that. It's a story about overcoming all of the old garbage
1:30.7	that has been instilled in us by others, especially as women growing up at a time when coaches
1:37.3	were like, you've got to be as small and as thin and as light as possible, especially in sports
1:43.9	like gymnastics. And also during a time,
1:47.7	when our physical health was barely attended to as athletes, let alone our mental health.
1:54.5	Debbie has had to overcome a lot of physical and mental pain, both from her sport and her life. And she shares how hard those
2:02.9	early years were for her and the injury she sustained and then how hard perimenopause was
2:08.9	and how she had so much grief in her life not only from what she had gone through personally,
2:15.6	but what her beloved brother went through in his life.
2:19.2	We didn't talk about it in this episode because even after all these years, she still
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