Tag Archive for: self-renewal retreat

(Video) Do You Push or Allow Things to Happen?
Mindfulness, Newsletter“Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is a paradox: what is soft is strong.”―…

(Video) How Can I Calm My Mind?
Mindfulness, Newsletter"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." Mahatma Gandhi
Recently I had an ah-hah about my body, mind and nervous system and how a new unhealthy habit was affecting my sleep, ability to release worry and stress,…

7 Reasons to Choose Love Over Fear
Mindfulness, Newsletter, Self-CareI remember a few years ago showing up at my local polling place to vote and seeing a long line wrap around the building. The anxiety in and around the voting space was thick and palpable. After ten minutes of waiting, I almost turned around…

We Have to Feel It to Heal It
Life Balance, MindfulnessHow 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…

Self-Care 101: Three Ways to Begin
Featured, Newsletter, Self-Care, Women's RetreatsLast 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?

Connection = good medicine. Are you getting yours?
emotional self-care, NewsletterI recently led a virtual work-life balance retreat for a group of women leaders. At the end of the day, a participant reached out to and tearfully shared, “I had no idea how badly I needed that. Not just the connection with other women, but…

9 ways to reclaim our humanness
Self-Care
The other morning my husband and I were milling around in the kitchen making breakfast and lunches and preparing for school and work. We looked up and saw our 13 year-old on his computer. My husband took a peek as he walked behind my son’s…

6 questions to stop you in your tracks
Women's Empowerment
Last Friday I led a one-day self-renewal retreat for wonderful group of women in Austin. It was a wise, creative, contemplative group. There were many insights and “ah-ha’s” shared, but one that stayed with me was, "I never knew a…

What self-care is NOT
Self-Care
I was lying in bed Sunday morning reading from author Anne Lamott's beautiful little book Small Victories. In one of her stories about parenting, she shares with a little self-deprecation, but mostly tenderness, how she doesn't bake for…

What does self-care mean to you?
Self-Care
I just returned from leading a self-renewal retreat for women at a new retreat center in the Midwest. The beautiful women I gathered with from Iowa, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Missouri were all at different life stages but shared…

5 days unplugged=whole new perspective
Self-Care, Work Life Balance
Last week I took a five day writing sabbatical (read more). I was holed up at home and ended up getting a cold, but the week was illuminating nonetheless. Being unplugged for five days helped me see with absolute clarity what was working--and…
Tag Archive for: self-renewal retreat

REBIRTH: A Soulful Self-Renewal Retreat for Women~Download Today
eventWomen's retreat, Sat. April 24th with Renee Trudeau