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06/25/2026

Most women don't need more motivation.

They need a better way to respond when life inevitably gets hard.

Because consistency isn't built on perfect conditions. It's built on knowing how to keep showing up when your energy is low, your emotions are loud, and life refuses to cooperate.

That's a skill.

And like any skill, it can be learned.

If you'd like to read the first chapter of The Consistency Code for free, just comment REALIGN below and I'll send you the link.

I think you'll discover pretty quickly that this isn't another book about willpower. It's about building a relationship with yourself that actually lasts.

06/24/2026

If life is asking everything of you right now, I wrote this for you.

Read or listen on Substack. Link in bio.

06/18/2026

Last fall, I published my first book, The Consistency Code.
This week, I learned it won a Bronze Medal in the Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) in the Women's Issues category.

To be clear, when I sat down to write this book, I wasn't thinking about awards. I was just trying to get 30 years of lessons, mistakes, observations, and coaching wisdom out of my head and into a format that didn't require someone to listen to 600 episodes of a podcast...🤣

Apparently, that was a good strategy.

Writing a book is a strange thing. You spend years talking to your computer, questioning your sanity, rewriting the same paragraph seventeen times, and wondering if anyone will ever even read the thing.

Then one day you get an email that says your first book won its first award.

Not going to lie, that feels pretty damn good.

Thank you to everyone who bought the book, shared it, reviewed it, recommended it, invited me onto your podcast, or trusted me enough to read something I poured so much of myself into.

First book.
First book award.

I'll take it! ❤️

06/18/2026

For most of my life, I took care of my body for all the wrong reasons.

I tracked my macros. I trained hard. I refined the vessel in a hundred different ways. And the whole time, the thing running every single one of those choices, every habit, every behavior, every function that makes life possible, was sitting quietly in the background waiting for me to notice it.

I noticed it when I watched someone close to me start to lose it. Slowly, and then all at once.

That changed everything.

This week on Substack I wrote a letter to my brain. An apology, a thank you, and a promise I intend to keep. And if you've ever struggled to find a compelling reason to take care of yourself, this might be it.

You can read it here: https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneytownley/p/for-the-first-time-i-am-as-devoted

06/11/2026

I spent a large part of my life uninviting my own power into the spaces I inhabited.

Not because I didn't feel it. I felt it constantly. I loved what it could do... how it could fill a room, move an audience, crack something open in people.

What I couldn't reconcile was what it did in smaller rooms. Among people who knew me up close, day after day and found it easier to manage than to celebrate.

So I started dimming it. Making myself easier to be around.
It felt like living at half-mast.

I turn 50 next year, and I am done.

This week on Substack I'm launching something new - a series of letters. To my body. To my power. To every part of myself I've ever dimmed, doubted, or left waiting in the wings.

The first letter is called Dear Power. And it's the apology I should have written years ago. Maybe you can relate?

You can read it here👇
https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneytownley/p/the-most-exhausting-thing-i-ever?r=1d669f&utm_medium=ios

06/03/2026

Last Friday I sat down to write.

Within four minutes I had ended up on the Instagram page of a woman I went to high school with, watching a reel about her sourdough starter.

I teach about this. I had literally just finished preparing a Masterclass on distraction. 🤦‍♀️

Here is what I want you to know: this is not a willpower problem. It is not a discipline problem. If you are a woman in midlife, your nervous system is going through one of the most significant neurological shifts of your adult life... at the exact moment the distraction economy is working harder than ever to exploit it.

You are not scattered. You are not lazy. You are depleted. And someone is profiting from it.

I wrote about all of it this week, including what distraction is actually protecting you from.

You can read the article via the link in the comments.

06/01/2026

Midlife has a way of forcing a reckoning.

With your relationships. Your work. Your sense of self. What you've tolerated and what you're no longer willing to.

And for a lot of women, the body is right in the middle of all of it. Not because it's actually the problem, but because it's become the scapegoat. The thing that gets blamed when life feels unfinished. The explanation for everything that hasn't worked out yet.

When I fix this, then everything else will fall into place.
Sound familiar?

Today's podcast episode goes straight at this. Give it a listen here:

What you were taught to believe about your body — and what it's been costing you ever since.

05/31/2026

Give yourself 6 minutes to listen to this.

One idea that I think every woman in midlife needs to hear right now.

You are allowed to want more for yourself. More health. More joy. More freedom. More of whatever you've been quietly reaching for.

That wanting? It's not greed. It's a signal. 🎙️ Link in bio.

05/28/2026

What if the reason so many women are exhausted on their health journey is because health was never meant to require this much management?

The trackers. The supplements. The protocols. The apps. The endless stream of experts telling you what to eat, when to eat, how to move, how to optimize. At some point wellness stopped feeling like care and started feeling like a second job.

We've outsourced so much of our health to external authorities that we've lost something far more valuable — the ability to listen to ourselves. Common sense. Critical thinking. The quiet knowing that most of us had before the noise got so loud.

The lost art of insourcing your health isn't about ignoring good information. It's about remembering that you live in your body. You have data no tracker can capture and wisdom no protocol can replace.

Sleep when you're tired. Move in ways that feel good. Eat real food. Drink water. Spend time outside. Connect with people who matter. These things have always worked. They still do.

Health was always meant to feel more like coming home than clocking in.

👇 Have you ever felt like trying to improve your health was like holding a second full-time job?

If so... I wrote a book all about learning how to insource measure to improve your health rather than constantly outsourcing it.

Drop BOOK in the comments and I will send you a free chapter:)

05/28/2026

I don’t think midlife is breaking women.

I think midlife removes our ability to tolerate what was already breaking us.

The body often starts telling the truth long before we do.

That’s the heart of my most recent article.

Check it out. Link in comments:)