Nourishingrowth, London Borough of Hackney (2025)

06/05/2024

The best advice

👉I am a storyteller. Follow me for real-life stories of people who changed lives, "I can do it too" examples, daily inspiration and life hacks to discover yourself.

04/05/2024

One thing I did not plan 7 years ago when I quit my job.

I would have never guessed what is my life now.
I quit my job to become a pastry chef, never would I have believed that ultimately I would be a freelancer happily juggling between crime novel writing, coaching and cooking for

The naked truth: I did not plan the life I have now.

I did not plan I was going to be a freelancer, a coach, needless to say, a writer. Your current dream life is not the one you will really get.

I like to say this to my coaching clients.
"Even if you think it is great, your plan A is rubbish. You will get plan B, C... Z and it's very good news".

Today you don't have all the info needed to define exactly what your real "dream life" is.

You spent the last 20, 30 or more years following a standard or at least non-questionable path. Today, you start to think about changing for good and you think that you can decide on the sole basis of your current knowledge?
No no no.

If I am asking you today to think about your dream life, based on the info you have in your hands, you will answer something like "yoga teacher", "entrepreneur", or "restaurant owner" with enough money on my bank account to enjoy life with my family.
Or something like that.

But this is not what will happen. Because before jumping into the river you are going to test, try, learn, be disappointed, discover new things and when you are truly ready to jump, I bet everything that it won't be to become a yoga teacher or a restaurant owner.
It will be for something much more in line with you.

And that's great.

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03/05/2024

None of these statements are true.

If you want to change your life to finally live the life you want, you don't need to be richer or younger.
It's not only for the "others" (who are they? Certainly not the unrealistic people of Instagram, you know that they don't exist).

And it's not difficult. You just have to take the first step.

I could tell you 10, 100, or 1000 real-life stories about it, you would still doubt it.
Or find another limiting belief to counter the harsh reality (or the naked truth).

And the naked truth is the following:
If you are too afraid you will miss the life you really want.

Changing your life is not about taking a giant leap into the unknown. It's about baby steps...

Can you do baby steps?

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02/05/2024

You can't fight too many battles at the same time.
Some are not even "battles", just facts out of our control that we refuse to let go of.

Do you want to change your life? Here is what you can do today:
🥷Pick-up the right battles.

The one you can win. One at a time. Choose wisely.

You are stronger than you think.

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01/05/2024

5 super valuable lessons you will learn from your life change.

1 - There is no short-cuts, no magical solution, no "one fits all" programme
2 - Your plan A will fail and it's great because plan B will be so much more in line with you.
3 - The first step is the hardest one. Once you take it, you will never want to turn back.
4 - There will be hard times but it will totally worth it
5 - Becoming yourself is the greatest life adventure ever.

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30/04/2024

🪄To change your life the magic equation is :
Commitment + Babysteps x Consistency = Big life changes.

8 years ago, when I was at the bottom of the barrel, I would have never guessed that this could be my life one day.

Whatever you want in live, you need to believe that it is possible. That you can get it.

I know, it sounds terribly wishy-washy but it's because you don't take it seriously that you don't even start.

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29/04/2024

Commitment and consistency are super powers.

🔸1 min of meditation per day,
🔸3 pages read before going to bed,
🔸100 words of your next best-seller written during your weekly lunch breaks,
🔸10,000 steps every Saturday,
🔸a nice message to tell a loved one that you think of him/her each weekend (Take care of your relationships. I swear: being thankful and showing it really makes a huge difference in life).
🔸one new food to be tried every week
etc.

Pick up what seems doable and enjoyable and just do it.

Remember: nothing is too small, every step matters.
Ultimately the benefits will blow your mind.

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27/04/2024

I've been here.

Ten years ago I was stuck in a life I did not like at all.
💷Very well paid (I was a corporate tax manager), with the perfect social status but desperate that it would be MY life when I was craving something completely different.

So many limiting beliefs were keeping me from moving forward (don't get me wrong, I don't say that stepping out is easy, quick and painless).

🧐What about you?
What is keeping you from starting over? What is the life you want to live?

There is no stupid answer. It takes courage to move forward and sometimes we realise that we are courageous only afterwards.💪

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26/04/2024

Overexcited with the idea of quitting my bul... job, fed up with a corporate life I could not stand anymore and obsessed with the idea of securing my life change, I only focussed on one thing (and the wrong one): my next job.

🥇 Call the Guinness Book: my exploration phase took exactly one week.
I did not like my corporate tax job anymore but I loved baking? Here we go: let's become a pastry chef!

I was so impatient to change - and so afraid to be in the blue- that I took my decision in a flash (stupidest idea ever). Even better: I told everyone about it (even worse).

There you go: a perfect recipe for a disaster.

When a couple of months later, I realised how much I hated the pastry chef world, it was too late.
I was in. I had left my job, my flat and started a new - very expensive - training in a top pastry school in France. Hasty decision => unforgiving consequences.

Long story short, it took me two years to curve the trajectory and find a much better path for my journey.

So save yourself time -as well as money and grey hair: don't follow my example and take the right time to think about your life change journey.

Finding your next job idea is NOT your priority. The priority is to discover yourself and then allow you to do what you really want to do in life.

This step takes time. Don't rush the process.

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25/04/2024

🏃‍♀️Mine is this one: I recently started to run!
Ok, you might think "Oh great, another Insta girl who is showing off about her so healthy lifestyle blablabla".

You couldn't be more wrong.
Less than 4 weeks ago, I thought I was incapable of running. I carried this little shame/you are a potato coach for more than 3 decades.

The last time I ran, I was in high school (and I am now 48 so you do the math).
Horrendous experience. I was always the last one, breathless and feeling fat and stupid.

Once an adult, I did not want to hear about running for more than 30 years.

Until... a month ago.
A friend of mine recommended me a running programme for beginners.

It was free, everything seemed manageable and easy to include in my daily life, so I gave it a go and...
🫨mamma mia.

It's been only 4 weeks and I can already 30 minutes in one go.
30 minutes! Me!
I can do it!

So, enough about me.

🧐 What about you?

What is the annoying limiting belief you would be curious to beat the crap out of? (excuse my French 😆).

Pick up something "small" and not too painful. This is not a self-therapy, it's self-development. It's about shifting your perspective and getting the life you want (not to challenge you harshly).

👉I am a storyteller. Follow me for real-life stories of people who changed lives, "I can do it too" examples and life hacks to discover yourself.

24/04/2024

💷 1- A lot of savings ahead
Relax. It's all about baby steps, you just want to open the door and begin the rest of your life.
Nobody changes - willingly- life overnight. You have plenty of time to save/secure your money plan.

🗺️2- A detailed "foolproof new life strategy".
Nope. It simply does not exist.
No risk = no gain.

🤓 3- A life coach (and I am a life coach 😉).
You are strong and smart enough to start today on your own.
Maybe with time, you will be happy to be supported by a coach to discover yourself. Maybe not.
Trust yourself. It's YOUR life, you are the only one who knows which life you want to live.

👉I am a storyteller. Follow me for real-life stories of people who changed lives, "I can do it too" examples and life hacks.

23/04/2024

8 years ago I changed everything. Job, home, country...

It can be a bumpy road (mine has been) but it is exhilarating. That's you life after all!

I am a storyteller, I love sharing hacks that work, real-life stories of people who changed lives, "I can do it too" examples, daily inspiration and tips to discover yourself.

👉20 things you can do to start your new life now (if you can't quit your job) - Link in bio

10/03/2024

"It can't be my real life".

10 years ago I was stuck in a life I did not like. I just could not believe that this was my reality, how I would be remembered.
The urge to do something, to change life was growing but I thought it was impossible. That I was too old, too skillsless, too uninteresting.

I thought it was impossible until it became vital to do no matter what.
So I did it. Organised but hastily, without asking myself the right questions, believe me, the seven last years have been a little bumpy.

Still, I did it. My life today is certainly not perfect but it has nothing to do with what it was 10 years ago and I couldn't be happier.

Today, I am here to share my experience and others' life-changing experiences with you.

And to tell you that you can do it too.

You can do it too.

Lots of love.

07/03/2024

Can we change life?

10 years ago I thought it was impossible. That I was too old, too skillsless, too uninteresting.

But on the other hand, it also seemed impossible that this life was MY real life.
That my only legacy would be a nice flat, memories with my friends and family and money in my bank account.

I thought it was impossible to change life until it became vital to do it anyway.
So I did it. Organised but hastily, without asking myself the right questions, believe me the seven last years have been a little bumpy.

Still, I did it. My life today is certainly not perfect but it has nothing to do with what it was 10 years ago and I couldn't be happier.

Today, I am here to share my experience and others' life-changing experiences with you.

And to tell you that you can do it too.

You can do it too.

Lots of love.

25/02/2024

When was the last time you took a day off just for yourself?

Join us :
🌸Saturday 16th March
🌸 in a beautiful villa in Wimbledon
🌸9 am/5 pm
🌸 £75 per person

On the menu :
🧘a beautiful 90 minutes Hatha Yoga session (all levels)
🥙a scrumptious homemade veggie Brunch
🤗a fun life coaching group session
🤓a great Ayurvedic talk
🧁a Tea time full of French pastries with an ayurvedic twist (homemade made of course! by an amazing professional pastry chef - me ☺️).

For enquiries and booking DM me or sophie@sophierenaude.com.

We can't wait to see you!🤗

18/02/2024

🥴 When was the last time you took a full day for yourself for real?

✨ Our next One Day “Yoga Retreat for Foodies” will@take place Saturday 16th of March - in a wonderful venue in Wimbledon - from 9am to 5pm!

🔹Hatha Yoga (all levels)
🔹Brunch (100% home made, fresh and veggie with vegan options)
🔹Introduction to life coaching
🔹Ayurveda talk
🔹Tea Time (full of French pastries with an Ayurvedic twist)

🤩Treat yourself and join me and Steph () my fabulous partner in crime for our next One Day “Yoga Retreat for Foodies” !

We can’t wait to see you !

👉 DM me for bookings and enquiries or contact us at

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