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.
The time, energy, and other precious resources lost to NOT making decisions in your life can be massive and I don’t know anyone who can afford to lose these types of resources.
Learning to make decis…
Making a commitment to show up for yourself in a new way can feel exciting at first, but as the weeks pass by and novelty starts to fade, staying faithful to your commitment can start to feel hard. A…
The benefits of strength training regularly are many, especially for the midlife woman.
And there are a lot of reasons why you may have never built a practice of it or simply strayed from a practice …
There is so much value in taking a few minutes each morning to align yourself with the version of you that you want most fully expressed in the world.
I am a big believer that how you start your day…
This past month inside of my Rumble & Rise membership community I taught an in-depth class all about mending our relationship with sugar. More specifically, how to regulate blood sugar. And…
As a bon…
Let’s face it the years surrounding menopause can be rough.
Stress is elevating, hormones are declining and our body is starting to do things we are struggling to understand.
As tempting as it may be…
Taking responsibility for your health and happiness is going to make you uncomfortable AND…
It is going to make other people uncomfortable.
How you rumble with discomfort is going to determine if you…
I have coached hundreds of women as they transition into menopause.
I have interviewed and been mentored by dozens of professionals who specialize in women’s health at midlife.
Heck, I AM a woman in …
It took me a very large chunk of my career to realize that if I truly wanted to empower my clients to live their life in a way that nourishes their health, I needed to teach them how to lead NOT to f…
There is the old (and outdated) path to health. And there is what I call a better path to health.
In this episode of the Grace & Grit podcast, I invite you to consider both to ensure the path you are…
Since it is Mental Health Awareness Month, I thought it would be a GREAT time to remind Grace & Grit Podcast listeners that there is NO health without mental health.
The state of your mental health p…
Regardless if it is intentional or not, most diets are set up for you to fail in 3 ways:
They market to your insecurities.
They do not take into consideration your unique individuality or the wholene…
Diet & fitness culture has conditioned women to believe that the body is the thing to fix, mold, restructure or biohack, if you want to feel better about your life. Gah!
In other words, the body beco…
A large majority of my clients and Rumble & Rise members are women between the ages of 40-60.
And I absolutely adore working with this population because during these years a woman is often in the th…
You can rock a swimsuit AND not like yourself. You can have six packs abs AND suffer from dis-ease. You can be an amazing athlete AND struggle with disordered eating.
Popular media culture loves to p…
Ever notice that you consistently show up for the things you care about?
Your kids. Your pets. Your partner. Your job.
How about yourself? How consistently do you show up for yourself?
If you laughed…
Humans are really good at glorifying certain emotions and demonizing others, which of course causes us to do things that deplete health rather than fortify it.
How might our health improve if we drop…
I can’t tell you the number of women I have worked with over the years who hired me because they don’t feel well even though their blood profiles and hormone panels say that everything is just fine.
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YOU are an incredibly unique human expression. YOU are here to cause, contribute and inspire things in the world in a way that only you can.
And…
It is really freaking hard to be a fully expressed hu…
Our culture LOVES to focus on “weight loss” as the linchpin to improved health, but that is problematic for so many reasons…
There are a TON of unhealthy ways to lose weight.
It is possible to be thi…