Hi, I’m Tracy — faith-based coach and founder of Nourishing Body & Soul. ✨
For years, I lived inside the pressure cooker of diet culture… measuring my worth by a number, chasing the “perfect” plan, and feeling guilty for simply being human. Now, as a certified eating psychology coach, I help Christian women break free from that cycle, nurture physical, mental, and spiritual health, and discover what life feels like when eating is peaceful, movement is joyful, and your worth is never up for debate.
My mission is simple: help you live fully as a beloved daughter of God—nourished body & soul.
What if joy isn’t always the big, exciting feeling we’ve been taught to look for?
With my birthday coming up, I’ve been thinking about how birthdays felt when I was a kid—and the expectation I carried into adulthood that birthdays were supposed to feel BIG. Do something special. Go somewhere. Have FUN. CELEBRATE.
But the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized that some of my deepest joy doesn’t look like that at all.
In this episode of The Nourished Life for Christian Women, we’re talking about the quieter kind of joy—the kind that doesn’t necessarily photograph well or announce itself when it arrives, but can make you think at the end of an ordinary day:
That was a good day.
We’ll explore:
✦ Why we carry expectations about what joy is supposed to feel like
✦ How “I should be enjoying this more” can actually keep us from enjoying what’s happening
✦ The freedom of simply allowing something to be good
✦ How joy and sadness can coexist
✦ What Jesus’ words in John 15:11 teach us about a joy that can remain
✦ Why we may be looking for joy at the wrong volume
✦ How noticing the quiet things that nourish us can make us more capable of experiencing joy
Joy doesn’t have to make a lot of noise to be real.
Sometimes it’s laughter, celebration, and dancing.
And sometimes it’s sitting quietly in a life you’ve spent years building and realizing:
I’m glad I’m here.
This week, instead of asking, How can I have more joy?, try asking:
Where is joy already showing up quietly in my life?
Ready for your next step?
Find The “Yeah, But…” Mirror and The WHOLE Woman Reset at nourishingbodysoul.com.
Connect with me:
Website: nourishingbodysoul.com
Instagram: @tracyastle.nourishingbody.soul
LinkedIn: Tracy Astle
22 Oct 2026
Episode 113 - What are You Forgetting to Enjoy?
What good things in your life have quietly faded into the background—not because you stopped loving them, but because you stopped reaching for them?
Recently, my daughter pulled a pretty flowered glass from the back of my kitchen cupboard. I'd completely forgotten I owned it. I hadn't intentionally saved it for a special occasion. I'd simply reached for the more “everyday” glasses often enough that this one gradually disappeared from view.
And it made me wonder: What else do we love that we've simply stopped remembering to include in our lives?
In this episode of The Nourished Life for Christian Women, we're talking about the people, places, interests, possessions and even parts of ourselves that can quietly slip into the background.
We'll explore:
✦ Why good things can disappear from our lives without us consciously choosing to let them go
✦ The difference between outgrowing something and simply forgetting to include it
✦ Why enjoying what we love involves a certain amount of risk
✦ What a second, beautiful hand-blown glass taught me about being willing to use—and potentially lose—something I loved
✦ Why I'd rather have something be used, loved and eventually gone than safely protected and never enjoyed
Maybe you don't need more good things in your life.
Maybe you need to remember some of the good that's already there.
Ready for your next step?
Find The “Yeah, But…” Mirror and The WHOLE Woman Reset at nourishingbodysoul.com.
Connect with me:
Website: nourishingbodysoul.com
Instagram: @tracyastle.nourishingbody.soul
LinkedIn: Tracy Astle
15 Oct 2026
Episode 112: When Did Everything Become So Serious?
When did going for a walk become exercise, reading become personal growth, cooking become meal prep—and every hobby become something we’re supposed to get good at?
When did everything become so serious?
As life gets fuller, we become more responsible. People depend on us. There are homes, families, careers, church responsibilities, relationships, appointments, and decisions to manage.
And somewhere in all that responsibility, the part of us that once did things simply because they were fun can get very quiet.
In this episode of The Nourished Life for Christian Women, we’re talking about play, usefulness, responsibility—and what can happen when capable women become so good at managing life that they forget how to simply enjoy being alive.
We’ll explore:
✦ Why we feel compelled to make enjoyable things useful or productive
✦ The hidden cost of becoming “the one everyone can count on”
✦ Why even having more fun can become another thing to accomplish
✦ Why adults have such a hard time being beginners
✦ The question: What did you love before you started deciding whether you were good at it?
✦ Why seriousness isn’t necessarily the same thing as faithfulness
You don’t need to become a more fun person.
Maybe you simply need to listen again to the part of you that already knows how.
Ready for your next step?
Find The “Yeah, But…” Mirror and The WHOLE Woman Reset at nourishingbodysoul.com.
Connect with me:
Website: nourishingbodysoul.com
Instagram: @tracyastle.nourishingbody.soul
LinkedIn: Tracy Astle
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