Rewilding Menopause with Kirsten Lewis (Episode 77)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Kirsten Lewis, at the age of 57, just ran her fastest 5K time–post-menopause, less than two years after she was ready to hang up her racing shoes and walk away from it all while in the throes of the menopause transition. She credits feeling stronger, happier, more grounded, and winning her age group in recent sprint and Olympic distance triathlons to the process of “rewilding menopause”: going back to the roots of what it means to be a woman in menopause; going back to her own roots; and stepping into her power. Now she wants to share her “shero's journey” with others who are feeling like menopause is the end of the line for their athletic lives.

Kirsten is a former Wall Street executive, a triathlete, and triathlon coach. She has a degree in photojournalism and is now using her words and images to tell her story of how rewilding has guided her to thrive. She is making it her mission to help women in midlife and beyond step into their personal power and create their new possible. You can learn more about her and her work at https://kl.life/ and on Instagram.

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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.
0:30.6	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.4	I have such an interesting conversation for you this week.
0:36.5	I sat down with triathlete and triathlon coach
0:39.7	Kirsten Lewis, who at the age of 57, just ran her fastest 5K time, postmenopause, just a year
0:48.6	and a half after she was ready to hang up her racing shoes and walk away from triathlon while
0:53.8	in the throes of the menopause transition.
0:57.1	I've been watching Kirsten for a while as part of our social media community.
1:01.9	And somewhere over the past year, she started posting these really provocative posts about
1:06.9	being on her Shiro's journey in triathlon and how she had decided that though she was
1:11.8	happy to have information about menopause and believed in education, she had made a decision
1:17.6	to step back and change her perspective from trying to fix what was happening to her,
1:22.4	to embracing the transition she was in as a positive beginning and the chance to reflect and create new possibilities.
1:30.4	She describes this experience as rewilding, which is as it sounds, going back to the roots of
1:36.4	what it means to be a woman in menopause, going back to her own roots, and stepping into her
1:41.8	power. The big overarching goal of this podcast is to share advice and stories because every one of
1:49.1	our journeys is different.
1:50.7	That's why I bring in such a wide array of guests from multiple time world champions to
1:55.3	self-describe back-of-the-pack athletes, women who have had success with hormone therapy,
1:59.8	and women who have had success without it.
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