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7 Self-Care Practices That Carry Me Through Change
Newsletter, Self-Care2025 was a year of rapid transitions. It felt like I could barely catch my breath between moving, building a home, healing from a car accident, supporting friends/family through hardships, hiring a new team and more!
Transitioning from one…

Let Kindness Lead: 3 Ways to Begin
Newsletter, Self-CareOne time while leading a workshop in California, my teaching assistant and I had a rude, jarring experience with another presenter. We later found out he had recently lost his wife. Consequently, our hearts softened and our perspective of the…

Dancing with the Dark: 8 Ways to Embrace Your Shadow
Mindfulness, NewsletterLately I've been dancing with a deep sadness that comes and goes like a flickering light. While I love celebrating Christmas as a season of renewal and time of spiritual rebirth, sometimes the days before and after this sacred holiday can be…

5 Ways to Find Spiritual Renewal This Holiday
Mindfulness, NewsletterAuthor and self-care expert Renee Trudeau offers 5 ways to find spiritual renewal this holiday.

Holding it Together is Overrated
living intentionally, Newsletter, Self-CareAs you look at the upcoming holiday stretch, are you feeling a little short of breath? Or are you taking it day by day, perhaps even allowing December to unfold as it will?
I’m the oldest of seven, the product of overachiever parents, and…

Six Tips For A More Mindful Holiday Season
Mindfulness, NewsletterRecently, my extended family all hopped on a Zoom call to pause, check-in and share our intentions for this holiday season, asking: what's most important to us during our time together and what do we each need when it comes to self-care?
We…

Feel Good Fast: The Simple Power of Gratitude
Mindfulness, NewsletterGrowing up our cerebral, overachiever family placed a high value on competency. Often that translated into a critical mindset toward self and others where we frequently saw the bad, before the good.
This way of being, like all patterns, became…

Feel It to Heal It: Are You Running from Your Emotions?
emotional self-care, Mindfulness, NewsletterAre you running from your emotions? 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 losses brought up for…

Are You Choosing Love or Fear?
Mindfulness, NewsletterLately I've had trouble sleeping. My mind has been latching on to concerning thoughts around family members and has me up at 4:30 a.m. trying to convince me "worrying" will help. Thank goodness I know better. These pre-dawn wake-ups have…

Pause. Are You Honoring Your Journey?
Newsletter, Self-Care"And, there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do—determined to save the only life you could save." ~Mary…

Pause. Are You Honoring Your Journey?
Newsletter, Self-Care"And, there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do—determined to save the only life you could save." ~Mary…

Ready to Prioritize Self-Care? 3 Ways to Begin
Featured, Self-CareLast 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?
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