Grace Notes and Messy Chords
With Coach Emily M
Episodes
On this episode of Grace Notes and Messy Chords, the host announces the eight-week Habit Lab starting December 5 and shares a personal experiment: eating meals at the dining table instead of the couch. She invites listeners to join her and reflects on how small habit shifts can create presence, better digestion, and deeper connection.
The episode emphasizes curiosity over perfection, playful community check-ins, and simple, sustain...
After a hysterectomy, Emily shares how her surgeon’s warmth, humor, and a surprise Taylor Swift playlist turned a scary day into a comforting, human experience.
From hand-holding and pre-op conversations to a gifted lavender candle, the episode celebrates small acts of empathy that make healing feel whole.
On a cool morning in Florida, a quiet moment with sandhill cranes led to a reflection on connection, music, and legacy.
In an Inner Chords workshop we explored legacy musicians like the Beatles and the power of three-word mantras—Let it be, You are enough—to ground, comfort, and guide us through change.
After an abrupt goodbye and the heaviness of losing her support role at Weight Watchers, Emily finds comfort and grounding in small, nourishing rituals—most notably cooking her mother’s apricot chicken. Through memories, music, walks, and community, she reflects on how gentle actions can help us move forward.
She also shares gratitude for her coaching collective, Birch and Stone, and invites listeners to join her in lea...
This episode reflects on the magnetic power of presence through a story about the host's mother sparking warm, spontaneous connections in a Macy's dressing room.
It explores three layers of magnetism—presence, authenticity, and energy exchange—and invites listeners to bring more warmth, curiosity, and openness into everyday interactions.
Emily recounts her struggle with coffee dependence and how a simple, gradual habit tracker helped her understand cravings and make intentional choices.
She shares lessons from weaning off caffeine, reintroducing coffee on her terms, and using trackers during recovery to turn setbacks into useful data.
This episode invites listeners to try tracking a habit — not to judge, but to increase awareness — and mentions her masterclass at B...
In this episode Emily explores why willpower often fails and how "skill power"—tools, environment design, and self-awareness—creates lasting change. Using a personal M&M standoff she shows how automatic eating becomes feedback and how skillful choices prevent those moments.
Listen for practical ideas: pause and notice urges, adjust your environment, plan satisfying alternatives, and treat slips as information rather than failur...
This episode explores how daily weight fluctuations are normal and not a measure of worth, explains the biology behind those changes, and shares a personal shift from scale-obsession to compassionate habits.
Instead of chasing quick fixes, the emily encourages tracking meaningful health markers, practicing consistent, gentle habits, and redefining the relationship with the scale as a tool—not a test.
Listeners are invited to ...
In this episode Emily shares a personal story about her husband, nicknamed "What Now?", whose playful curiosity and DIY problem-solving—from five-toe shoes to Gorilla Bow workouts—become a model for resilience and creativity.
The host connects those examples to her own post-surgery recovery, encouraging listeners to reclaim control through tiny, practical actions like short walks, habit tracking, and kinder self-talk, a...
Coach Emily M. explores how perfectionism and all-or-nothing thinking derail health and self-worth, sharing personal stories about diets and journaling to show how the “I’ll start Monday” loop works.
She offers simple, practical tools—name the voice, reframe failures, take one small action—and invites listeners to embrace the messy middle where real progress and grace live.
Coach Emily M. introduces the first episode of Grace Notes and Messy Chords, exploring how perfectionism quietly shapes our lives. Drawing from her journey from a classical pianist to Juilliard to embracing improvisation and vulnerability, she shares how the chase for flawlessness followed her everywhere.
Emily reflects on the weight of all-or-nothing thinking, the balance between technique and emotion, and how true beauty often co...
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