(Video) What Does Self-Care Mean to YOU?
I’m in the middle of moving homes, putting together a new professional support team, recalibrating my post-pandemic speaking business and adjusting to life as a new empty nester. It’s a lot to navigate. And, I would not be able to move through all these transitions with some sanity if I was not fully committed to my own self-care. I define self-care as: the art and science of attuning and responding to your needs and desires …moment to moment.
For me, it’s not about adding something to your to-do list, it’s cultivating a kinder, gentler, more supportive way of being with yourself. Here’s a short video chat on self-care with my friends at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health. This was filmed while I leading a retreat there:
I’ve had the joy of facilitating retreats for 25 years. Read 5 Reasons You Should Take a Retreat and check out all my upcoming self-renewal events (including my 9/24 mini-retreat in NC!).
Want more? My entire blog is devoted to self-care (grab your favorite bevvie, curl up in a chair and peruse past posts); one of my favorites is Self-Care is Not Self-Improvement; read more.
P.S. I’d love to support you! If you or your friends live near Western NC and would love high-level support for finding clarity and focus around your life (or career) path, join me for a mini-retreat Fri. Sept. 24th from 1:30-4:30 p.m. Learn more: Now What? Tools & Practices for Finding Your Way in a Wild New World.
HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOU OR YOUR TEAM IN FINDING BALANCE & RESILIENCY?
The view from my picnic blanket last night up on the Blue Ridge Parkway; join me in NC for a Wild Souls Nature Adventure!
- *Just announced! NEW 2021 Events*~ learn more. Plus check out Wild Souls Nature Adventures! I moved to the Blue Ridge Mountains last year and I am in the process of creating magical, wild Western North Carolina-based nature/mindfulness experiences designed to reconnect you to wilderness and yourself. Learn more and sign up for my Wild Souls mailing list here).
- My 2021-2022 speaking calendar is filling up! Schedule me to create a balanced living workshop, keynote or personal retreat to help your team, organization or employees feel less stressed and more resilient, creative and focused. For 20+ years I’ve been working with companies/organizations such as Women in Conservation, the Council on Family Violence, Merrill Lynch, the Center for Women in Law, the Hewlett Foundation and more. Email me, I’d love to discuss how I can support your team or organization. Learn more here.
Subscribe here to Live Inside Out, a weekly blog written by mindfulness coach/speaker and self-care author Renée Peterson Trudeau. Passionate about helping men and women find balance through the art/science of self-care, her work has appeared in The New York Times, Good Housekeeping, US News & World Report, AARP, Spirituality & Health and more. She and her team have certified more than 400 facilitators in 10 countries around the globe to lead self-renewal groups for women based on her pioneering work. She’s the author of two books on life balance including the award-winning The Mother’s Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life. She and her husband live in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Austin, Texas and are enjoying a new empty nest. More on Renee here.
