You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.

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 your best no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hey, Feisty's.

So, a few weeks back, there was a pretty long thread on the feisty menopause page that caught

my eye.

A lot of you were lamenting a sudden lack of mojo, saying that you used to get up and get

out the door and get your run in or get your workout in super early, and well, now, not

so much.

Maybe you have a second or a third cup of coffee first. Maybe you wait till noon or

after work. Maybe you do get up, but now it's more of a forced march than abound out of bed.

And a lot of you are wondering where your get up and go has gone. And I can relate. For years,

I had my riding, running, swimming stuff, bedside, ready to go, in the pool by 5.30, on my bike, Don Patrol.

And while I'm still an early riser, I definitely don't have the early morning training fire that I used to.

So I called up this week's guest, Dr. Kristen Diefenbach,

to parsa, what's going on here? And as a long time athlete approaching menopause herself,

she had some pretty good insights. We also addressed a slew of other issues like body image,

goal setting, how to cope with the psychological challenges that come at this time of life,

all kinds of questions and concerns that have been popping up in my inbox.

Kristen is a certified mental performance consultant with the Association of Applied Sports Psychology.

She is also a Peaks Coaching Group Master Coach, a USA Cycling Power Certified

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