(Video) Are You Resisting … or Allowing Life?
This past week I talked to several clients and friends across the US who shared they feel: “Unsettled. In limbo. Anxious. Stagnant. Disrupted and disoriented. Exhausted and overwhelmed. Unable to plan. Tired.” I like to remember we’re all constantly changing and nothing is fixed, but SO many of us can relate to at least one of these feeling states right now.
Recently we had a big snow storm in Western NC. January has been bumpy for me (to put it mildly) and I had really fallen in to a funk. A friend invited me to snowboard down a long, somewhat steep hill on a very slick inner tube. “Hang on,” she said. “You’re going to go fast!” Without thinking it through, I set aside my fears and my resistance and I went for it. Pure exhilaration! Ever since this experience I’ve been asking, “How I can allow and go with life-just as it is?” In my two-minute Live Inside Out video below, I share the question I’m sitting with this week. Join me!
Want more support for getting unstuck? Read What Makes You Come Alive? I encourage you to move your body and get outside this week. The five anchors that helped pull me out of my depressive slump in January were: connection, movement, singing, nature and breath work. I’ll be thinking of you this week. And if this post helps you, please share my blog with friends and family!
HOW CAN I SUPPORT YOU? HERE ARE THREE OPPORTUNITIES FOR COMING INTO BALANCE:
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Subscribe here to Live Inside Out, a weekly blog written by mindfulness coach/author/speaker, master retreat facilitator and self-care evangelist 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 Western North Carolina and Austin, Texas and are enjoying a new empty nest. More on Renee here.
