# Episode 531: How Grief Lives in the Body — and What to Do With It

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Podcast: [Grace & Grit Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716)
Published: 2026-05-09T09:00:00+00:00
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## Resource

Grief is not just something you feel at a funeral. Grief is what happens whenever something ends without your permission — and midlife is full of those endings. Most of us were never taught how to grieve them. Unprocessed grief doesn't disappear — it goes into the body as chronic fatigue, weight that won't shift, and a low-grade depletion with no obvious cause. Drawing on insights from The Body Keeps the Score, Courtney explains how emotional losses encode in the body and offers a simple, powerful practice to begin releasing what you've been carrying. Get your free chapter of The Consistency Code at https://theconsistencycode.com/freechapter #GriefAndWomensHealth #HowGriefAffectsTheBody #EmotionalHealthMidlifeWomen #BodyKeepsTheScore #UnprocessedGriefSymptoms #MidlifeLossAndIdentity #EmotionalAgilityAfter40 #GriefAndChronicFatigue #NervousSystemAndGrief #WomenAndEmotionalProcessing #GriefInMidlife #SomaticHealingWomen

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