Grace & Grit Podcast

Episode 697: The Art of Saying No Without Explaining Yourself

Most of us were never taught to say no cleanly. We were taught to soften it, justify it, apologize for it, and wrap it in so much explanation that the other person bare

Episode 696: Finding Your Center

Most of us treat feeling centered as something that happens to us when circumstances are favorable. But what if center is not something you feel when things are right?

Episode 695: Regulating Your Nervous System Will Make Some People Uncomfortable

When you start doing the work of regulating your nervous system, something interesting happens. You feel better. You make clearer decisions. You stop absorbing other pe

Episode 694: Emotional Hunger vs Physical Hunger

We spend enormous amounts of time and energy managing what we eat. Very few of us have been taught to ask why we are eating. In this episode I explore the critical di

Episode 693: Accountability Tools vs Self-Leadership

The wellness market is full of tools designed to hold you accountable. And most of them are genuinely useful. But there is something none of them can do. And understand

Episode 692: Find Out Who You Are and Do It on Purpose

Dolly Parton once said: find out who you are and do it on purpose. In a world that constantly invites us to be something other than ourselves, doing it on purpose is a

Episode 691: What You Practice Now You Will Live in December

Every year, millions of women arrive in January exhausted, depleted, and vowing to start over. And every year, the same pattern produced that outcome: a slow unraveling

Episode 690: The Sleep Divorce and Other Brave Sleep Decisions

There is a decision that a growing number of women are making quietly, usually without telling many people, because they are not sure how it will be received. They are

Episode 689: Letting Go as a Form of Nutrition

We talk about nutrition almost exclusively in terms of food. But there is another kind of nourishment that rarely gets discussed: the kind that becomes available when y

Episode 688: Boundaries Are Not a Personality Trait

There is a story we tell about boundaries that sounds like this: some people just have them and some people do not. Today I want to dismantle that story completely. I

Episode 687: The Portfolio Mindset for Your Body

What if you thought about your body the way a smart investor thinks about a financial portfolio? Some assets are highly liquid and relatively easy to adjust. Others tak

Episode 686: Defining Enough

If you do not define what enough means for yourself, you will spend your entire life chasing it. And here is the cruelest part: you will never catch it. In this episo

Episode 685: How to Stay Yourself When Everyone Wants Something From You

The fourth quarter of the year has a particular quality to it. Demands increase. Schedules fill. Other people's needs multiply. And if you have not decided in advance w

Episode 684: Food Without the Fuss

Before you follow anyone else's food rules, do you even know what your own are? And where did the beliefs you are currently living by actually come from? In this epis

Episode 683: You Get to Change Your Mind

There is a version of commitment that has nothing to do with integrity. It is the stubborn adherence to a decision you made in a different season of your life, with dif

Episode 682: Intentional Periodization

You would not expect a professional athlete to train at peak intensity fifty-two weeks a year. Their coach would never allow it. In this episode I make the case that

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 680: How You Show Up Is a Choice

There are two sentences I use in coaching that have the power to completely shift how someone moves through a difficult relationship. They are not complicated. But sitt

Episode 679: The Stories We Tell About Our Bodies in the Mirror

There is a voice that shows up every time you step in front of the mirror. It has opinions. It compares, it critiques, it comments on everything. And most of us have be

Episode 678: Define Success Before You Chase It

Most people spend their lives chasing success without ever stopping to define what that word means to them. And the cost of that oversight is enormous. In this episod