Blog - Renee Trudeau

Can you be with what is?

This past weekend my husband and I needed to have a crucial conversation with our middle schooler, but due to schedule conflicts, his mood swings and poor timing, this talk kept getting postponed. My anxiety around wanting to have this…

My #1 life balance secret

Self-Care, Women's Retreats

"Are you listening to your life; what is it trying to tell you?” Renee Trudeau Most people are surprised to hear that I love making a big pot of minestrone soup for my family and friends as much as I love getting invited to go to India…

Are your yin & yang out of balance?

Work Life Balance

As a communications director, throughout my twenties and most of my thirties, I pushed myself hard. After securing media coverage for a client on the TODAY Show, I barely stopped to breathe before I was pitching their story to National…

Simplifying from the inside-out

Life Balance, Work Life Balance

I remember one 4th of July weekend when my husband and I gathered a small group of friends for a “Freedom Fest." No fireworks, hot dogs, or Tchaikovsky. Instead, we had a potluck and asked each guest to bring one thing that “I want to…

Holding it together is overrated

Life Balance

I’m known as the oldest of seven, the product of overachievers, a hyper-competent “woman who always has answers and knows where she’s going,” the go-to girl–the one who always seems have it together. And as I move deeper into…

What are you missing?

Mindfulness, Self-Care

In the next three weeks, I will be managing an extra full plate at work: multiple speaking engagements, leading a retreat, finishing a new telecourse and more. And as I look at my schedule--all things I truly love to do and that feed me--at…

Sisterhood

Women's Retreats

“We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.” ― Marianne Williamson I once spoke at a girls empowerment conference to a group of three hundred ten to thirteen-year-olds.…

7 reasons you should ask for help

Life & Career Coaching, Self-Care

This morning a dear friend went in for hip surgery and I called together a circle of women to pray for her. And this week as I prepare to head to New York for a week to lead a retreat, I'm calling in ALL the troops--from additional admin…

Do you live intentionally, or haphazardly?

Life Balance, Work Life Balance

"A strong intention can make 'two oceans wide' be the size of a blanket or 'seven hundred years' the time it takes to walk to someone you love." Rumi Do you ever wonder how all the day-to-day choices you make, big and small, affect your…

What are your non-negotiables? (+a girlfriend giveaway)

Life & Career Coaching

In our 15 year old career coaching firm, one of the exercises we often have our career exploration clients do--after we've worked with them to define what they want, what they do best and what's a fit for them--is to come up with their top…

6 ways to stress less & simplify this fall

Self-Care

In the Native American tradition, September signifies the start of a new year. It certainly feels this way to parents. Whether your kids are toddlers or teens, the start of the school year signifies opportunity, a time for a fresh start…

Permission granted to slow down

Mindfulness

Ever since my son and I got back from our month off the grid in Western North Carolina--read What the Mountains Taught Me--I've been thinking about how speeded up we have all become: plowing through inhumane to-do lists, agreeing to crazy…