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Spending just a few minutes a day in mindful meditation can help ease many menopause symptoms.

By Selene Yeager

Mindfulness comes up all the time in the menopause sphere. That’s because as your hormones fluctuate and drop, they can take your peace of mind with them, leaving you more prone to...

These building blocks can help build muscle, improve performance, enhance recovery, and prevent mental fatigue.

By Selene Yeager

We talk a lot about the importance of muscle in our menopause community. As Juliet Starrett said in a recent episode of Hit Play Not Pause, “Muscle mass is like y...

Head for the hills for increased strength, endurance, metabolism, mental toughness, and more.

By Selene Yeager

High-intensity intervals—especially those short, sharp, “Whoo! This is hard!” sprint type of intervals—are very good for menopausal metabolic, cardiovascular, and musculoskeletal he...

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...