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Feeling Overwhelmed? Try Incremental Self-Care

Last week, I was visiting with a dear friend who just started an intense graduate program. She also works full-time and is juggling family demands. Her life feels uber-full, and it's often hard for her to make it to a yoga class, to the hiking…

Could Meditation Be Your Sanity Saver? 5 Ways to Begin

Meditation, Newsletter

I live in Western North Carolina, an area in the Blue Ridge Mountains that was recently hit with catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Helene. The "1,000 year flood," was fueled by unprecedented climate change shifts. We've been in the national…

What is Your Life Trying to Tell You?

Life & Career Coaching, Newsletter

Recently, while leading a work/life alignment workshop for small business owners, I spoke with a long-time entrepreneur who shared she was getting signs that it was time to let her business go. She was ready to harness and redirect her energy…

6 Things to Do When Life Feels Hard

Newsletter, Self-Care

Many people are struggling right now and some are barely keeping their heads above water. I was visiting with a dear friend last week whose wife was just diagnosed with lung cancer. He's feeling depressed, overwhelmed and is running on fumes. …

Want to Prioritize Self-Care? 3 Ways to Begin

Newsletter, Self-Care

Last week I spoke at a women’s life balance event and afterwards I visited with an attendee who asked, “I know self-care is important, but I have no idea what I need and I’m not even sure where to start!” Can you relate?

Self-Care = Meeting Yourself Where You Are

Newsletter, Self-Care

Self-care is not about adding something to your to-do list. It's about cultivating new ways of being with yourself ~ Renee Trudeau I have a dear friend in Austin who is known for her bubbly, outgoing positivity. But, when she and I are alone…

We Gotta Feel It to Heal It

Mindfulness, Newsletter

How comfortable are you "feeling uncomfortable feelings?" During my 20's and 30's, I experienced my parent's divorce, my brother's suicide and the death of my mother and father. All of the pain, sadness, betrayal, anger and abandonment these…

6 Things to Do When the Going Gets Tough

Newsletter, Self-Care

Many people are struggling right now and barely keeping their heads above water. I was visiting with an old friend yesterday who is battling depression. “It comes and it goes, but when it returns, I often freeze and forget what helps me the…