Working Through Menopausal Grief with Kathryn Wilder, PhD (Episode 185)

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

4.9 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Nearly every one of us will go through some mourning with the changes that come with menopause. Even if we go on hormone therapy, which can help a ton, there is some loss that comes at this time. A loss of our reproductive selves. A loss of speed in our sport. A loss of our ability to quickly bounce back after hard workouts. A loss of some aspect of our health, wellness, or appearance. Some are big. Some are small. But they’re there and they’re real. And that means going through some stages of grief, which is always painful, but also opens us up to a process of discovery and adaptation and transformation, which can take us to some amazing places. This week we explore the process and discuss how to work around the psychological obstacles of menopause with Performance Psychology Consultant, Dr. Kathryn Wilder.

Kathryn C. Wilder, PhD, is a lifelong Human Performance and Wellness Consultant whose work has been featured in Bicycling, Triathlon, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe, and hundreds of other morning shows, online articles, and podcasts. She has worked with more than 1000 elite athletes, including some of the most successful cyclists in U.S. history, including Laura Van Gilder and Mandy Marquardt. She herself is a collegiate All-American, former Professional Cyclist, ranked top 20 in the United States, and two-time U.S. National Champion. She has had a thriving professional performance psychology practice since 1999. You can learn more about her and her work at her profile on LinkedIn.

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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.
0:31.3	Hello, strong feisty women.
0:34.1	So, this show was originally going to be a conversation with performance psychology consultant
0:40.1	Dr. Catherine Wilder, or Casey, it's Catherine C. Wilder, Casey, as she likes to be called, about body
0:47.2	image and self-identity as we go through menopause. But the conversation got deep, fast, and it became something so much more. So I ended up
0:58.6	calling it working through menopausal grief because that's really what it is. And I sat with that
1:05.0	for a while because it feels heavy and I'm not generally a heavy person that way. But I ultimately
1:10.5	kept it because it is real.
1:13.1	And just because it's heavy doesn't also mean that it isn't ultimately light.
1:19.3	And by that I mean pretty much every single one of us is going to go through some sort of
1:25.4	morning with the changes that come with menopause. Even if we go on
1:29.6	hormone therapy, which can help a ton, there is some loss that comes with this time. A loss of our
1:36.0	reproductive selves, which for some women is profound, a loss of speed in our sport, a loss of our
1:41.9	ability to quickly bounce back after hard workouts,
1:44.6	a loss of some aspect of our health, wellness, appearance, you name it.
1:49.7	Some are big, some are small, but they're all there and they're real.
1:54.8	And that means a measure of going through some stages of grief, which opens us up to a process of discovery and adaptation, and, dare I say,
2:04.8	transformation that in the end can indeed be quite positive. And there was no better person to
2:11.4	have this conversation with than Casey. She's a doctorate from the University of Virginia in
2:16.7	human performance, and she has worked with more than a thousand elite cyclists, including some of the most winning riders in U.S. history like Laura Van Gilder.
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