{"podcast":{"title":"Grace & Grit Podcast","slug":"grace-grit-podcast-991716","podcast_index_feed_id":991716,"rss_url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://graceandgrit.com/podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/f/4/4/0/f4405a4688bbcbb088c4a68c3ddbc4f2/Grace_and_Grit_Podcast_3000px.png","author":"Courtney Townley","episode_count":608,"summary":"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.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T14:20:56.758135+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 531: How Grief Lives in the Body — and What to Do With It","slug":"episode-531-how-grief-lives-in-the-body-and-what-to-do-with-it","published_at":"2026-05-09T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-531-how-grief-lives-in-the-body-and-what-to-do-with-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716","url":"https://graceandgrit.libsyn.com/episode-531-how-grief-lives-in-the-body-and-what-to-do-with-it","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/graceandgrit/May_9.mp3?dest-id=329309","summary":"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","meta_description":"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 en…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":669,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episodes/episode-531-how-grief-lives-in-the-body-and-what-to-do-with-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/grace-grit-podcast-991716/episode-531-how-grief-lives-in-the-body-and-what-to-do-with-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}