(Video) Where Do I Need to Course Correct?

Socrates said, “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” 

For years I worked in healthcare communications and designed huge outreach plans to encourage people to shift towards healthier behaviors (i.e. quitting smoking or taking up walking). What we learned in our research is that lasting change does not happen by cracking the whip or reprimanding ourselves, but through compassion, kindness and noticing what’s working and what’s not.  While taking a personal retreat this past weekend in the Pisgah Forest, I received some beautiful insight around where in my life I need to shift.  So this week, I’m exploring with compassion and curiosity, “Where do I need to course correct?” 

Want more? From our favorites vault, read What Is Your Life Trying to Tell You?  and join me and fifty like-minded women from around the US May 6-8 for Awakening Your Wild Soul: Women’s Self-Renewal Retreat at The Art of Living Retreat Center in Boone, NC (fly in to Charlotte or Asheville).  I’d love to support you! 

WANT TO MAKE YOUR SELF-CARE A PRIORITY? THREE OPPORTUNITIES! 

1. **ALMOST SOLD OUT!** May 6-8 in Boone, NC ~  Gain clarity/focus from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Join like-minded women at Awakening Your Wild Soul: A Women’s Self-Renewal Retreat ~Art of Living Retreat Center. Boone, NC. Tuition/room and board packages start at just $699.  Learn more.
2. May 10-16: Global Self-Care Summit ~ An online event featuring Dr. Kelly McGonigal,  Sharon Salzberg, Kristin Neff,  Renee Trudeau and 35 more authors in an event designed to help you prioritize your self-care! Click here to register for FREE! 
3. Wild Souls Nature Adventures (based in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC) offers magical, nature-based mindfulness & resiliency programs and events help you feel more grounded, alive and balanced. New offerings are listed each week. Or have me design a custom experience for your team or friends  Read more and sign up to get notices! 
   

Subscribe here to Live Inside Out, a weekly blog written by life-balance coach/author/speaker and self-care evangelist Renée Peterson Trudeau. Passionate about helping men and women find balance through the art/science of self-care, Renee has been speaking and facilitating transformational, high-impact workshops for 25 years. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Fast Company, 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 self-care 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. Her latest venture is Wild Souls Nature Adventures. More on Renee here.