We started this company because an insane amount of stress forced us to seek a better way. We spent our careers in marketing and recruiting, often sacrificing time with family and loved ones, removed from our passions, and stuck in the stress cycle because that’s what the world had always told us to do: “work hard, never give up, hustle.”
We worked our day jobs, we worked our side jobs, we taught yoga, we read books, we took courses. And we got sick. Ashley ended up with crushing, month-long migraines. Elizabeth suffered from anxiety that led to gut issues and panic attacks. And yet we worked. We ignored it. Pushed it down. Blamed ourselves for not being good enough, or working hard enough, not wanting it enough.
The reality was that we were burned out. Burnt to a crisp. Refused to do it anymore. We gave up on hustle culture to seek alignment.
In the process of figuring out who we are and where we can have the most impact, we have tried many things. We have taught yoga, cooking classes, meditation, anti-racism, and stress management. We have been an events company and an e-commerce company. We’ve done retreats, festivals, corporate workshops, and speeches.
But the last three years have taught us so much. The last two years, in particular, have been incredibly difficult but also incredibly enlightening. What has often been behind the scenes is that our primary service has always been corporate workshops. Because of where we came from and why we started, stress management has always been the area we felt most confident about. It has also always been our most popular and consistent service offering.
As we grow and evolve as women and as a business we’ve had to make some hard decisions about the direction of our company. As much as we love cooking, as passionate as we are about allyship, it’s our decision now to move away from traditional wellness and towards an area of wellbeing that feels both poignant and timely: mental wellbeing via stress management and burnout prevention.
Our revised mission is: To reduce stress and burnout by changing the way we work and think.
So much of what we think is fact or accept as “the way it is” about work and stress is actually just a default mode we’ve gotten used to. The world is evolving. The way we work is evolving. And we believe we can have the most impact while protecting our own mental health and practicing what we preach by shaping the future of work.
The heart of who we are is not changing. If you are experiencing fatphobia, racism, and hustle culture at work you will also be experiencing stress. Work is a huge part of the ecosystem of our lives and we cannot address issues with individual stress until we address the culture of the communities we spend so much time in.
We hope you’ll continue to join us on this journey. We are so grateful for all your support over the last three years. We need you now more than ever to help us grow.
Our services now include:
-workshops around stress management, productivity, and workplace culture
-the stress management series, lectures/speeches
-the stress management box with our workbook
As always, encouraging difficult conversations that move the needle and change the way we think will be at the core of all we do.
We were handed a workplace culture that glorifies production at the expense of mental health but we can choose something different. We can work hard but with boundaries. We can engage with our passion but use productivity frameworks to get better work in less time. We can work to live without living to work. You can “never give up” by learning to pivot and allowing your goals and mission to evolve with you and your desires. You can flex into business times by resting deeply when you have downtime.
Hustle culture had its day but being burned out is miserable. We know because we were there and we’re here to help prevent that fate for others.
If you’re looking for a quick and easy way to describe us in this new form, here is our official company bio:
TRILUNA is a stress management company dedicated to reducing burnout and increasing conversation around mental health. Co-Founders Elizabeth and Ashley each left their careers burned out and seeking a better way. Through their individual journeys they each came to the conclusion that in order for work to work it would need an overhaul. After health coaching and yoga certifications, self-study, and three years of running workshops for companies as large as LinkedIn and as small as local yoga studios they've developed a program that helps organizations keep their teams productive, connected, and well.
Thank you,
Elizabeth, Ashley, + Team TRILUNA