Spiritual Fitness in Midlife & Menopause with Anne Alexander (Episode 154)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

We exercise and train for hours each week (and sometimes each day) to build our physical fitness. We work on our mental toughness. But how much time do we devote to our spiritual fitness? To exercising our soul? For many of us it’s not so much. And we can suffer for it, getting lost, sad, and stuck, especially during menopause and midlife when we can find ourselves looking around going, “Is this it?” “What’s it all about?” This week we plug into our inner selves for a little tune up with longtime yoga practitioner, best-selling health and fitness writer, and now interfaith minister Anne Alexander, as we explore how to expand our purpose and passion in this next chapter of our lives.

Anne Alexander is a longtime yogi, writer, and newly ordained interfaith minister with a passion for making the frontiers of health, science, and spirituality irresistibly interesting and surprisingly practical. Author of two New York Times best-sellers, former SVP/Editorial Director at National Geographic, and founder of SoulCandy, Anne brings decades of training in Iyengar, hatha and jnana/wisdom yoga and a deep understanding of ancient spiritual wisdom traditions to helping people find peace, discover their purpose, and experience their power, especially at mid-life. Her latest work, Wake Up to Love, is a practical and profound invitation to let go, lean in, and follow your bliss. You can learn more about her and her work at soulcandy.com

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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
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best no matter what your hormones are doing. This show is a production
0:26.2	of Live Feisty Media. Hello, strong feisty women. So this week, we are going to take a little
0:36.5	bit of a tangent and talk spiritual fitness.
0:40.3	Or maybe the best way to put it is exercise for your soul.
0:44.7	Because it's not really religious per se, but more about letting go of the stuff that's holding us back
0:50.8	and finding a real purpose and passion for the second half of our life here
0:55.8	during menopause and midlife. And I really loved this conversation. It's with a colleague of
1:03.5	mine from way back in the day, Anne Alexander, who was one of my first editors at Prevention
1:09.4	Magazine. She is also the author of two New York Times bestsellers.
1:14.2	She's the former editorial director at National Geographic and a longtime yogi.
1:19.0	I could go on and on.
1:21.0	And, well, after a series of what Lisa Hess would call lifequakes,
1:25.7	including losing her high power job, her marriage disintegrating,
1:30.7	a bunch of other stuff, and ended up becoming an interfaith minister, which honestly floored me
1:38.7	when she emailed me and told me what she was up to. And she started this business called
1:43.9	Soul Candy, where she brings
1:45.9	together her decades of training in yoga and now the depth of ancient spiritual wisdom traditions
1:52.0	that she's been learning and studying and practicing as an interfaith minister to help people find
1:57.7	peace and discover their purpose and to experience their power, especially at
2:03.1	midlife. And she came in and met with our level up membership. And she took us through some of her
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