Grace & Grit Podcast

Episode 681: The Power of Critical Thinking for Your Health

The wellness world is extraordinarily good at selling certainty. And most of us, somewhere between the compelling testimonial and the limited-time offer, stop asking th

Episode 674: Stop Gaslighting Your Own Body

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

Episode 673: When Did You Make Going Outside Hard?

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 creat

Episode 672: The Case for Eating With Other People

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 consis

Episode 671: Stop Trying to Get Your Old Body Back

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

Episode 670: Your Environment Is Coaching You

In 2012, Google noticed its employees were eating too much candy. Rather than lecturing them about nutrition or appealing to their willpower, a team of behavioral scien

Episode 669: The Return on Ordinary Days

Almost no one talks about the Tuesday. The ordinary, unmemorable, nothing-particularly-special Tuesday that is, in fact, the primary unit of a life. In this episode I

Episode 668: Your Sleep Is a Report Card

Sleep is not a switch. It is a harvest. And what you harvest at night depends almost entirely on what you planted during the day. In this episode I reframe sleep as t

Episode 667: Are You Lonely or Just Under-Connected?

Loneliness and under-connection are not the same thing. And if you are treating them as the same problem, you may be reaching for the wrong remedy entirely. In this e

Episode 666: You Probably Don't Need a Better Morning Routine

The wellness world has sold us a very elaborate lie about mornings. That the quality of your day depends on a precise sequence of activities completed before most peopl

Episode 665: The Health Benefits of Being Bad at Something

When was the last time you did something you were genuinely not good at? Not working toward being good at it. Just doing it, badly, for the pure experience of doing it?

Episode 664: The Art of Doing One Thing at a Time

We pride ourselves on multitasking. But the research on this is unambiguous: what we call multitasking is actually task-switching. And we do everything worse when our a

Episode 663: Simplicity Is a Health Practice

The women who tend to their health most consistently are not always the most informed. They are often the ones who have simplified enough to actually follow through.

Episode 662: A Love Letter to Walking

Back in July I made the research case for walking. Today I want to do something different. I want to tell you what walking has actually given me. In this episode I sh

Episode 661: Your Life Needs More Awe

Rachel Carson wrote that those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. I have been thinking about that sentence a lot

Episode 660: Rest Is Not the Same as Doing Nothing

Lying on the couch scrolling your phone is inactivity. But it is not rest. In this episode I draw a clear distinction between what restores a human being and what mer

Episode 659: Where Is Your Third Place?

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg spent his career studying something most of us have never thought to name. He called it the third place. Not home. Not work. The other place

Episode 658: You Are Not What You Consume. You Are What You Absorb.

The more accurate version of "you are what you eat" is this: you are what you absorb. And the same is true of information. In this episode I explore the difference be

Episode 657: Muscle Is More Than a Metabolic Organ

Somewhere between the bodybuilding world and the wellness world, we lost something important in the conversation about strength. It got reduced to metabolism and body c

Episode 656: Boredom Is Not an Emergency

We have become so uncomfortable with emptiness that we fill every available moment with something. A podcast, a scroll, a task, a distraction. And in doing so, we hav