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.
I am so honored to have Steph Gaudreau back on the Grace & Grit Podcast to expand the conversation around “Embracing Resistance”, which is the theme on the podcast this month.
I have watched Steph’s …
Resistance is how we fortify our muscle, our bone, and even our brain tissue. Learning how to embrace resistance is also how we learn to expand our lives. Resistance, both emotional and physical, can…
In order to improve your life, one thing is for certain, you are going to have to do some things differently than you have in the past, which will feel challenging. And, where there is challenge, the…
In this final episode of the theme “Ready, Set, Grow” on the Grace & Grit Podcast, I talk about a few of the biggest obstacles standing in the way of women showing up for themselves to “do the work” …
I am a big believer that deep health is born out of the willingness to get to know yourself better; understanding why you do things that don’t really serve you and why you don’t do things that are in…
Change is challenging, to say the least. Which is why a lot of people fail to improve their life to the degree that they want to.
Most people are living over scheduled lives, barely keeping their hea…
I love to read and there are a handful of authors that have greatly influenced the work that I do as a health coach. So, today on the Grace & Grit Podcast I share with you a few of the lesson I have …
I have been helping women rewrite their health stories now for over 20 years, and I have learned a few things along the way about what it really takes to create sustainable change.
It has nothing to …
We have been doing a deep dive into the topic, “The Practice of Joyful Living”, all month. Which, is super timely considering that there is a heightened spirit of joy in the air around the holiday se…
We have been doing a deep dive all month long into the topic “The Practice of Joyful Living” and in today’s episode, I share 5 ways I am committed to deepening my own joyful living practice in 2019, …
My guest today, Dr. Jennifer Guttman, believes that happiness is a fleeting emotion, an endorphin rush, a chemical high, and that our culture’s current obsession with “happiness” is causing suffering…
Joy is an approach to life, an attitude, a choice of which SO MANY benefits are a bi-product of!
In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast I talk about:
Improving your health is a healing process and while the wellness industry talks a lot about lifestyle behaviors that can help to accelerate the healing process like nutrition, exercise, recovery etc…
While you most certainly cannot hate or abuse your way into a state of better health, you CAN appreciate your way there.
I have long believed, and research certainly supports, that gratitude is the g…
Maybe you don’t have children, but you were once a child. And as a child, you likely had someone in your life who helped you to set boundaries, make healthy decisions and instill in you the importanc…
Just because you have always done something a certain way does not mean you have to keep doing it that way. In fact, if what you are doing is depleting you, it is high time you consider changing it.
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I am so excited to be hosting my dear friend, Laini Gray on the Grace & Grit show for the third time!
Laini is a wealth of information when it comes to hormones, gut health, liver function, and all-a…
Hormones are a topic we have talked a lot about on the Grace & Grit Podcast because let’s face it – hormones govern your body – and if they aren’t in their happy place…well…neither are you!
As I have…
The metabolism is often discussed in fitness and diet spaces as ONLY an energy equation and, while energy does matter (how much energy you are consuming vs how much you are expending), there are so m…
This month we are talking all about hormonal health.
Hormones basically govern your biology, so if your hormones aren’t happy…well… neither are you.
In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I giv…