Taming the Hormonal Perimonster with Sasha Gollish (Episode 156)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A few years ago, elite Canadian runner Sasha Gollish started experiencing some symptoms that had her wondering what the hell was up with her body—crime scene (or as she called them firehose) periods, strange memory lapses, times in races when her legs were flailing and her muscles were not responding the way they typically would as she struggled to find her stride. She wondered if she was sick. As you likely guessed by now, she wasn’t sick. She was in perimenopause. After suffering alone for a bit, Sasha decided to open up and share her experiences online, not only for her own mental health, but also so other women wouldn’t feel alone or invisible in their own struggles. This week she talks all about how she is learning to make peace with and tame what she calls her hormonal perimonster.

Along with being an elite runner, Sasha Gollish, PhD, 41, is also a high-performance coach, engineer, and researcher in the Mental Health and Physical Activity Research Centre at the University of Toronto where her work focuses on knowledge translation. She has a substantial resume of world and national records, including setting the world record in the women’s 40+ indoor mile in 2022 and setting two Canadian Masters Indoor records earlier this year at the Hal Brown Invitational Indoor meet. Also, this year she competed in the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, the half marathon at the inaugural World Road Running Champs in Riga, Latvia, and the World Mountain Running Champs in Innsbruck, Austria. You can learn more about her and her work at www.sashagollish.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 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.
0:31.1	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:33.6	I hope you all are well.
0:35.6	And if you are in the U.S., I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
0:40.3	I just wanted to take a moment here and say, I am thankful to each and every one of you who listen and share and are part of this incredible supportive community.
0:51.0	During the past few weeks, I've had the opportunity to hang out with some of you in
0:54.8	real life, first at a Spartan Stadium event in Fenway Park in Boston, which is basically a 5k
1:02.1	through the stadium, so, you know, a billion stairs, and 20 obstacles ranging from spear
1:08.3	throws to wall climbs and all sorts of antics. And it was super fun and
1:13.8	honestly, transformational for a lot of women who were taking on something like this for the very
1:19.3	first time. And on the heels of that, we also had our feisty menopause performance retreat in
1:25.7	Lake Nona with Dr. Vonda Wright, which was also an
1:28.7	amazing time and again, transformational. You know, lots of midlife women haven't ever learned
1:35.6	how to lift heavy or do box jumps or all this stuff that can look really intimidating
1:41.3	and it's easy to think, oh, that's not for me. But when someone literally
1:46.2	shows you the ropes, and I mean literally one of the women learned how to climb a rope right
1:50.9	before that Boston event, you see that you can and a whole world opens up to you that you
1:57.5	didn't even know existed. So my heart is full and I just wanted to share that
2:02.5	and again, share my gratitude with you and say how much I appreciate you all.
2:08.0	Speaking of sharing and full hearts, this week's show has a whole lot of that. I had a chance
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