(Video) How Important is YOUR Self-Care?

 

Last week I ran into a friend at our local coffee shop. She shared, “I’m so bummed I’ll be missing our weekly Wild Souls Nature Walk and weekend Wild Souls movement class but I’ll be too busy attending to my family’s needs.” Then she paused, realized what she had just said … and started laughing. “Actually maybe I’ll re-think that. This may be THE most important week ever to keep self-care on my to-do list.” I smiled. Exactly. Watch a  2-minute video and join me as I reflect on this week’s Live Inside Out question: 

Audre Lorde shared, “Self-care is not about self-indulgence, it’s about self-preservation.” Want more? Read Self-Care is Not Self-Improvement.  And if you’re ready to put your self-care front and center in 2022, consider joining me Sunday afternoon Dec. 19th from 1-4:30 ET for SOVEREIGNTY: A Winter Self-Renewal Retreat where we’ll explore how we can stand in allegiance to ourselves as we take time for deep self-renewal, connection and quiet reflection.  

HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOU OR YOUR TEAM IN FINDING BALANCE & RESILIENCY? 

• Wild Souls Nature Adventures (based in Western NC where I live) offers magical, evidence/nature-based programs and practices to help you feel more grounded, alive and resilient. Join us this week for mindfulness nature walks, music and movement classes. Read more and sign up to get notices! 
• **NEW 2022 Retreats**~ learn more. I just announced THREE new Awakening Your Wild Soul: A Women’s Self-Renewal 2022 retreats. Join me at 1440 Multiversity (CA), Art of Living Retreat Center (NC), Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health (MA) and I’ll be doing a very special Dec. 19th one-day Winter Solstice Sovereignty retreat.  Save your spot now; we fully anticipate these will sell out. 
• Help your team/employees find balance in 2022! 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 3M, Ernst & Young, 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 life balance 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.  Renee lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she just launched Wild Souls Nature Adventures.  Originally from Austin, TX, she and her husband are enjoying a new empty nest. More on Renee here.