Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause," the podcast that redefines your relationship with fitness, nutrition, and hormonal changes.
Hosted by American College of Sports Medicine Practitioner of the Year 2023, women's integrative health, running, and performance expert Louise Valentine, this show empowers you to mitigate impacts of hormone changes without overcomplicating it! Get ready to break through misinformation, ditch outdated male-based methods, and apply what you learn to feel your best, look fit, and run strong, energized, and injury-free at ANY age!
Louise and her clients share how they achieve previously thought "impossible" results, driven by Louise's multi award-winning science-backed nutrition, fitness, running and fat loss methods designed for ambitious everyday runners age 35 and beyond. Get inspired each week as they share how they've turned their own health, hormone, and fitness breakdowns into breakthroughs and how they now lead the way in empowering women just like you do the same!
Whether you're looking to ditch hormone havoc, break through a setback, or want to understand how to lift, train and fuel harmoniously with your changing female physiology, you'll find this podcast insightful and inspiring. No more fighting against your body – Louise is here to help you harness its fierce natural power to achieve a vibrantly energized, well, fit and active life!
If you're an active female who loves to run and wants it all, Welcome to "Maximizing Hormones, Physique, and Running Through Perimenopause" – Your go-to resource to break through to next-level health, hormones, and fitness!
Maximizing Hormones, Physique & Running Through Perimenopause
#114 - How She Did It: Holistic Physical & Mental Healing with Psychotherapist Kim Gillette
Do you believe in "miracles" when wellness-minded runners understand simple sustainable ways to work with our changing hormones and female physiology? After this profound success story, you will!
What if the pain, exhaustion, and burnout you have been pushing through are not things you have to “power through,” but signals asking for a different approach?
Louise, a multi award-winning women's integrative health practitioner and physiologist, sits down with longtime running friend Kim, a mental health practitioner, to share a deeply honest journey overcoming chronic injuries, perimenopause symptoms, nervous system overload, and healing from the inside out. Kim opens up about years of pain, hot flashes, disrupted sleep, autoimmunity, blood sugar chaos, running injuries, and feeling stuck despite doing all the “right” things.
They explore how shifting focus from pushing harder to regulating the nervous system, revamping how she trains and lifts, and up-regulating natural hormone production and balance, energy and blood sugar balance using the Breaking Through Wellness whole foods fueling framework changed everything. Kim shares how less overall running mileage, more strength training, strategic speed work, better fueling, and nervous system regulation helped eliminate chronic pain, reversed prediabetes and autoimmunity labs, and restore her confidence as a runner and caring compassionate professional.
The conversation introduces brain spotting, a therapy that helps process stored trauma and stress at the root level rather than just talk therapy. Through a live demo, listeners hear how this work can reduce emotional activation, improve calm, break through performance blocks, and support long-term healing.
This episode is valuable for active women who love to run, feel, and look their best navigating perimenopause, burnout, stored trauma, or chronic stress who want a sustainable path forward without feeling broken or overwhelmed.
Watch this episode on my website blog & grab a copy with my free nutrition guide to thrive through perimenopause with less stress: https://www.breakingthroughwellness.com/blog
Learn more about Kim’s psychotherapy practice & services: https://www.gillettepsychotherapy.com
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Episode Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(8:37) Reconnecting Through Running And Community
(11:54) Burnout, Injury, And Reaching A Breaking Point
(13:34) Chronic Pain, Hot Flashes, And Stress
(15:57) Shocking Health Improvements And Lab Results
(17:13) Nervous System Regulation
(22:17) Healing Through Community And Support
(27:09) Leaving Burnout To Build A Private Practice
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