
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.
Latest episodes

Jun 20, 2020 • 40min
Episode 206: Granting Yourself Permission to FEEL Emotion & Why It Matters to Your Health
Emotion can be incredibly helpful or horribly destructive depending on what we do to process them or if we process them at all. I deeply wish that emotional management was a course taught in primary school. There is so much needless suffering in the world because people either do not allow themselves to feel difficult emotion or they don’t take responsibility where they can for the emotion they do feel. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I talk about why learning how to FEEL all emotion is so important to your health and how to retrain yourself to feel emotion rather than deny, resist or numb it. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-206/ **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Jun 6, 2020 • 33min
Episode 205: Acknowledging Gaps & The Art of Listening
Admitting where we could do better is not necessarily fun, but oh-so-important to our personal health and even to the health of the world at large. The past few weeks have shown me where I could serve women (all women) better AND reminded me of the art of listening. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-205/ **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

May 16, 2020 • 32min
Episode 204: Rising To the Occasion That Is Your Life
I wish I could tell you that deep health could be attained by following a playbook that worked for someone else’s life, but that’s not how it works (the horrific failure rate of the diet industry is proof of that). Deep health requires deep inner work so YOU can author the playbook for your own life. I meet women every day who say they want to get off the diet hamster wheel but they also want to avoid the inner work at all costs. Inner work isn’t optional if you want to nourish your mental and physical health in a way that is sustainable. In this episode, I talk about what inner work is and why it is the very thing that will help you rise in the most powerful way to the occasion that is your life:) You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-204/ And, be sure to register for the FREE Masterclass for Women here: https://graceandgrit.com/ditchthediet **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

May 2, 2020 • 37min
Episode 203: Why You Must Rumble in Order to Rise
I have long believed that improving health, be it mental or physical, is a practice of self-leadership. Self-leadership is a practice of righting decisions and habits that may no longer be serving you. To move your life to higher ground, you must be willing to rumble between who you have been and ultimately who you want to be. Rumbling is how we learn, how we grow, and ultimately how we become stronger and more confident versions of ourselves. In this episode of the Grace and Grit Podcast, I explain why rumbling is so necessary to the change process and how to rumble well. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-203/ **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Apr 18, 2020 • 38min
Episode 202: Rumbling with Courtney: Your Questions Answered
This week for the podcast I decided to reach out to my community and ask them what they were rumbling with, and I got some GREAT questions that are going to be relevant to a lot of women. In this episode, I answer 4 questions: I was doing so well with not eating sugar, why am I struggling again? How do I get traction with a routine again when life has been so disrupted? I am noticing that I am driven to take action out of guilt (a lot), and I know it isn’t serving me. How do I remedy this? Why can’t I seem to take action that counts? Is it a lack of commitment? Listen in here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-202/ And, don't miss the FREE online summit starting Monday. You can learn more and sign up here: https://confidentwomenrising.com **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Apr 11, 2020 • 36min
Episode 201: Start Your Day With the End in Mind: Navigating Through the Storm
Yes, life is a little (or a lot) disorienting right now and we are being challenged in new ways. It is all too easy to focus on everything that is wrong with our current reality and why it shouldn’t be happening. The sooner you stop fighting reality (because let’s be honest you will never win that argument) the easier you will be able to navigate your way through it. No, we cannot control what is happening out in the world (pandemic) but we can control how we live this day despite what is going on in the world. Meaning… You can control how you show up today. You can control how you spend your time. You can control how you feel You can control what you choose to focus on. And in this episode, I teach you one of the most powerful practices I know to help you do just that. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-201/ Have you signed up for the free online Confident Women Rising summit? It starts Monday, April 20th with 16+ speakers and a ton of free bonus gifts. Learn more at https://confidentwomenrising.com **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Apr 4, 2020 • 53min
Episode 200: Resiliency Road
Weeks ago I asked the Grace & Grit community members what they thought I should talk about on the 200th episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast. The word “resilience” came up more than once, which I love because I think we need to be reminded of our capacity for resilience now more than ever. So in this episode, I weave together a celebration for our 200th episode on the Grace & Grit Podcast and a conversation about what it takes to fortify your resilience. Have a listen and share your thoughts: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-200/ And, be sure to join me for the FREE online Confident Women Rising Summit. Learn more here: https://confidentwomenrising.com **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Mar 21, 2020 • 50min
Episode 199: Customizing Your Journey Back to Health with Mary Miller Brooks
The diet industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that has sold people on the notion that “what works for one person will work for everyone”. And it has failed, miserably. Wellness is not a cookie-cutter formula that can be applied to every human. In fact, the path that will return a person to a state of well-being is as unique as the individual who is pursuing it. In this episode of the Grace & Grit Podcast, I have invited my friend and nutritionist extraordinaire, Mary Miller Brooks to the show, to discuss why it is so important to customize the journey back to health. We cover a lot of ground, discussing things like: gut health thyroid health food mapping sweating as a detox mechanism …and so much more! You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-199/ And, help celebrate the upcoming 200th episode by leaving a voicemail we can share, telling me how the Grace & Grit Podcast has helped you to uplevel your health! Click here to leave your voicemail: https://graceandgrit.com/voicemail **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Mar 7, 2020 • 34min
Episode 198: Living In Alignment With Your Food Philosophy And Why It Matters
In the age of diet dogma and copious amounts of nutrition information available at your fingertips, I think it is more important than ever to turn inwards and ask yourself what is working for you. What is your food philosophy and are you living in alignment with it? Surprisingly, although many women can quickly tell you their food beliefs, they aren’t necessarily living in line with those beliefs. Check out this episode to get clarity around your own beliefs about food and examine if those beliefs are serving you or not. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-198/ And, grab your free template here: https://graceandgrit.com/nourish **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/

Feb 22, 2020 • 31min
Episode 197: Commitment and Why You Need to Understand the Depth of Yours
When it comes to health in modern-day culture, we have a commitment issue. The truth is, you will never learn to be consistent if you don’t learn to commit. We commit to marriages. We commit to our kids. We commit to our careers. We commit to our retirement funds. When it comes to our health? Not so much. Think about how your health would improve if you could commit to improving it with the depth that you have committed to other areas of your life? In this episode, I talk about why understanding your level of commitment is so important to improving your health and even give you questions to ask yourself to better understand the depth of your commitments to yourself. You can listen here: https://graceandgrit.com/podcast-197/ Ignite Your Confidence FREE Mini-Workshop: https://graceandgrit.com/ignite **** Are you loving the Grace and Grit Podcast? Help us keep the mic on! Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/graceandgrit Leave a Review: http://bit.ly/GGPReview Looking for more Grace and Grit? Visit https://graceandgrit.com/