Grace & Grit Podcast

The Grace and Grit Podcast takes the health fairy tale you've heard all your life and turns it upside down and inside out, helping women rebuild their relationship with their body once and for all. Placing the focus on love and respect, rather than the aggressive demands and unrealistic expectations that have become the norm, Courtney Townley is determined to help women mend the fabric of what is driving the female health story.

Grace & Grit Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 671 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Grace & Grit Podcast, a education show with 671 episodes published.

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  Episode #675

  Episode 675: Are You Becoming More Alive as You Age?

  Sep 30, 20268 min

  We have a lot of metrics for health. Steps, sleep scores, bloodwork, body composition, VO2 max. And I am not dismissing any of them. But there is a question underneath all of them that rarely gets asked directly: are you becoming more alive? In this episode I explore aliveness as a measure of health, not just physiological health but the quality of your engagement with your own experience. You can have excellent lab work and feel completely flat. You can be navigating genuine health challenges and still feel more alive than you have ever been. The opposite of aliveness is not death. It is going through the motions. I share what I believe produces aliveness: movement, real connection, meaning, and the willingness to keep being curious about a world that always has more to show you. And I leave you with the question worth asking regularly and honestly: are you becoming more alive as you age? Ready to go deeper? Grab my book, The Consistency Code: A Midlife Woman's Guide to Deep Health and Happiness, at https://theconsistencycode.com #GraceAndGrit #Aliveness #MidlifeWomen #VitalityMidlife #HealthBeyondMetrics #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #BecomingMoreAlive #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth

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  Episode #674

  Episode 674: Stop Gaslighting Your Own Body

  Sep 29, 20267 min

  Your body is sending you signals constantly. Hunger. Fullness. Fatigue. Tension. Overstimulation. The need to move. The need to stop. And most of us have spent years overriding those signals so consistently that we can no longer reliably read them. In this episode I introduce the concept of interoception, the body's ability to sense its own internal state, and make the case that rebuilding this relationship may be one of the most important health skills available. I also explore the gaslighting pattern we apply to ourselves: you are not really tired, you can push through, you do not need a break, you are just being dramatic. The body stops being heard until we find ourselves genuinely unable to tell what we actually need. Restoring this relationship is not complicated. It is just slow. And it starts with one practice: before you react, pause and ask what your body is actually telling you. Want everything in one place? Join me on Substack for real talk, deeper insights, and the community you didn't know you needed — at https://courtneytownley.substack.com #GraceAndGrit #Interoception #MidlifeWomen #BodyIntelligence #BodyAwareness #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #ListenToYourBody #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth

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  Episode #673

  Episode 673: When Did You Make Going Outside Hard?

  Sep 28, 20267 min

  It is too hot. It is too cold. There are no sidewalks in my neighborhood. I do not have the right shoes. I do not have enough time. We have become extraordinarily creative at making one of the most basic and universally available health practices feel inaccessible. In this episode I gently dismantle the excuse taxonomy: weather excuses, infrastructure excuses, and time excuses. I make the case that almost none of them are as insurmountable as they feel, and that the threshold for what counts as acceptable outdoor conditions has simply crept too high. I also explore what we have lost by staying in, the restorative quality of attention that natural environments provide, and how to reduce the friction between you and outside until going out becomes the default rather than the deliberate choice. Want to keep going? Download the first chapter of The Consistency Code for FREE at https://graceandgrit.com/freechapter and take the first step toward the health and happiness you deserve. #GraceAndGrit #GoOutside #MidlifeWomen #NatureHealth #OutdoorExcuses #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #NatureDeficitDisorder #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth

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  Episode #672

  Episode 672: The Case for Eating With Other People

  Sep 27, 20266 min

  In the Blue Zones, the regions of the world where people consistently live past 100 in good health, researchers kept finding the same things. And one of the most consistent was communal eating. In this episode I draw on Dan Buettner's Blue Zones research to make the case that eating with other people is not just pleasant. It is protective. Shared meals slow us down, almost automatically. They improve digestion, reduce intake, and create a quality of connection at the table that is hard to replicate anywhere else. Vulnerable things get said. Laughter comes more easily. I share that we have dinner as a family every single night, not because it is always perfect, but because the ritual of it sends a signal that the people at this table matter enough to show up for. And I make the case for how simple the starting point actually is. Ready to go deeper? Grab my book, The Consistency Code: A Midlife Woman's Guide to Deep Health and Happiness, at https://theconsistencycode.com #GraceAndGrit #EatTogether #MidlifeWomen #BlueZones #CommunalEating #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #FamilyDinner #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth

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  Episode #671

  Episode 671: Stop Trying to Get Your Old Body Back

  Sep 26, 20266 min

  It is not a privilege that our bodies change. It is a privilege that we lived long enough to change. In this episode I challenge the assumption that a past version of your body was the standard against which all future versions should be judged. Bodies change because life happens. Because hormones shift, experiences accumulate, and time passes in a living system that is always responding to its environment. A body that never changed would be a body that was not fully alive. I use the analogy of a thirty-year-old oak tree: you would not look at its wide trunk and deep roots and mourn that it is no longer the sapling it was at five. The growth and weathering are the point. And I offer a reframe for what forward actually looks like: understanding what your body genuinely needs at this age and stage, and shifting the measure of success from how the body looks to what it can do. Want everything in one place? Join me on Substack for real talk, deeper insights, and the community you didn't know you needed — at https://courtneytownley.substack.com #GraceAndGrit #StopChasing30 #MidlifeWomen #BodyImage #AgingBody #WomensWellness #DeepHealth #HonorYourBody #IntentionalLiving #MidlifeHealth

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