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 you best, no matter what your hormones are doing.

This show is a production of Live Feisty Media.

Hello, strong, feisty women.

As anyone who's listened to this show for any amount of time knows, the theme here is performance.

By and large, sports performance, whether that be running, CrossFit, triathlon, or the like.

One topic that doesn't quite fit under that umbrella, but comes up a lot on our social media channels and in the membership, is sex.

There have been many questions about sexual desire or lack thereof, pain during sex, and all the various barriers to a fun,

active sex life that can come up during the menopausal years. We've talked about sex before

on this show, of course. Dr. Lauren Stryker offered an hour's worth of golden advice on specific types of lube,

vaginal treatments, and so forth.

But we spoke less about the other sex organ that is impacted during this time of life,

the brain, which honestly is really our most important sex organ.

So I'm really excited to bring you this week's guest, Dr. Kelly Casperson.

Dr. Casperson is a urologist interested in science and the power of the mind to change our views of sexuality.

She is so interested in this topic, it has become the sole focus of her

practice. She has created online courses, teaching women the fundamentals of their anatomy and

physiology, discussing their limiting beliefs, and normalizing their truly normal, female sexual

function to empower them to live their best love lives. She also has her own podcast,

You Are Not Broken, where she discusses all of this and more, and she has a book of the same

title coming out in 2022. You can learn all about all of that at Kelly Caspersonmd.com.

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