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Episode 675: Are You Becoming More Alive as You Age?

Grace & Grit Podcast · Sep 30, 2026 · 7:50

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We have a lot of metrics for health.

Steps, sleep scores, bloodwork, body composition, VO2 max. And I am not dismissing any of them.

But there is a question underneath all of them that rarely gets asked directly: are you becoming more alive?

In this episode I explore aliveness as a measure of health, not just physiological health but the quality of your engagement with your own experience. You can have excellent lab work and feel completely flat. You can be navigating genuine health challenges and still feel more alive than you have ever been. The opposite of aliveness is not death. It is going through the motions.

I share what I believe produces aliveness: movement, real connection, meaning, and the willingness to keep being curious about a world that always has more to show you. And I leave you with the question worth asking regularly and honestly: are you becoming more alive as you age?

Ready to go deeper? Grab my book, The Consistency Code: A Midlife Woman's Guide to Deep Health and Happiness, at https://theconsistencycode.com 

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