Graced Health: Perimenopause and Menopause Wellness for Christian Women
Want to feel strong and well in your body — without the diet culture pressure? The Graced Health podcast is for Christ-centered women in perimenopause and menopause who want to feel capable, grounded, and at peace in their bodies — without all the noise.
Here you'll find practical, grace-filled guidance on strength training, nutrition, body image, and wellness — all rooted in faith and free from diet culture. No shame. No comparison. Just clarity, encouragement, and a voice of reason.
I'm Amy Connell, a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Coach who grew up in diet culture doing step aerobics in a thong leotard.
God called me into Graced Health after showing me there's a more peaceful, less obsessive way to care for my body — so I can do what He's called me to do.
New episodes drop every week, covering everything from strength training and menopause to intuitive eating and body stewardship — all through a grace-centered lens.
Ready to get started? Download my free guide: 30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health for Women in Perimenopause and Menopause at https://www.gracedhealth.com/health
Graced Health: Perimenopause and Menopause Wellness for Christian Women
The food, nutrition and grace your mental health needs
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Counselor Ruth Opiyo joins to conversation to discuss the relationship between our mental health, the food we eat, and our faith. Ruth brings such gentleness and balance to this conversation, so please know this is not a list of rules, do’s or don’ts. She is an integrative medicine practitioner, so she combines her counseling expertise with nutritional food science.
WE DISCUSS:
- The family’s influence in our relationship with food
- Reconciling the American version of “healthy” in the late 90s vs. Ruth’s experience growing up in Kenya
- Learning to live outside the extremes with food
- How micronutrients such as Omega 3s, selenium, magnesium, vitamin D help our mental health
- Establishing a balanced mindset about eating foods that we know fuel us well but not idolizing it and how that plays into our mental health
- Learning to give ourselves grace in the absence of perfection
- The Biblical examples of enjoying food with others and using it to love others
- Foods Ruth recommends to support our mental health
- The benefit of taking the time of making our own food
- The science of why we emotionally eat
- Foods to avoid when we are struggling with our mental health
Connect with Ruth:
https://innerpeacecounselingandcoaching.com/
ruthopiyo@therapyemail.com
Facebook: InnerPeaceCounselingSugarLand
My latest recommended ways to nourish and move your body, mind and spirit: Nourished Notes Bi-Weekly Newsletter
30+ Non-Gym Ways to Improve Your Health (free download)
Connect with Amy:
GracedHealth.com
Instagram: @GracedHealth
YouTube: @AmyConnell
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