Danielle Render Turmaud, PhD

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Kidlit Author (Rep: Amy Nielsen) + Trauma Therapist | THESE BOOTS WERE MADE FOR MARCHING (2029)| Psychology Today Expert Blog Author| SCBWI |Host of the You, Me, & the Writing Journey Podcast (@YMWJPodcast) and @YouDeservepIt Pitch Event

Today, on the United States 250th Independence Day, I do not have many words. But this I will say …
Publishing is like a two sided coin. It’s full of paradoxes, like… ➡️The possibilities around the corner are exciting AND ➡️The waiting can be brutal. 👉The passion is life giving. AND 👉The passion makes the passes hard. ➡️The community is incredible. AND ➡️It can be hard to see others get deals while you wait. All aspects of the experience can be true. Let yourself feel what you need to—and take care of yourself. 💜, Your Therapist + Author Friend
Often, stepping forward means stepping inward. You’ve got this. Trust yourself. 💜, Your Therapist + Author Friend
Line up of season 4
Photo of Danielle with: I signed a very exciting author-related thing this week!
Danielle celebrating with cheesecake
Episode release information for pre-release episodes
Mountain View
Valentines activity explanation
Encouraging email at the top of my inbox (to me from me)
Ep 31 with April Berry airing January 18 and Ep 32 with Vicky Weber airing January 19
May you never forget your ability to adapt, grow, and learn. But if you do, look outside and see how the trees, the grass, and the flowers adapt to the barriers around them. For you are a force of nature.
Let today e about everything you already have instead of everything you still want
“Don’t try,” said Doubt. “Don’t hope,” said History. “Don’t believe,” said the world. “Try anyway,” whispered something inside me.
Danielle’s 2025 wrap up list
Poster for event
Photo of Sylvia Plath with this quote
In spite of how heavy the world feels, my inspired heart will create beauty in rebellion. We need art and words and songs. Someone, somewhere, is barely hanging on and something beautiful will be their light house. - butterflies rising
I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my nosholes—everywhere. Until it’s every breath I breathe. I’m going to go out like a meteor! —Audre Lorde
Regret holds you to a higher standard than even you are able to maintain, it says: “I knew all the answers, I knew what was going to happen, I knew better.” Maybe sometimes you did, but usually, you were just trying to cope & survive within a context that was unfamiliar or scary. Show yourself compassion. Show yourself curiosity. Meet yourself from where you were, not from where you are now.
Beauty was not simply something to behold it was something one could do.
My Rainbow Teacher editor card with comp titles (like My Shadow is Purple, A Teacher Like you, etc.) and themes from the PB.
An editor card for PB MY RAINBOW TEACHER that shows comp titles and discusses themes for the PB. Includes an image of a teacher holding the hands of the MC/child.
Writing is not a way of escaping reality. It’s a way of engaging with it more completely. Ursula K Le Guin
If you can it change the course of the storm, be the lighthouse.
Mental health is not a destination, but a process, it’s about how you drive, not where you’re going.
Don’t be so focused on the light around you, that you miss your own. Danielle render Turmaud
All of Weather medicine is built on getting rid of pain, which is not the same as healing. Healing is actually the capacity to hold the pain. Dr. Gabor Mate
When you can sit in the space between no longer and not yet, you begin to grow differently. By Nancy Levin
Photo of the amazing Take Your Kid 2025 kidlit faculty
Photo of the amazing Take Your Kid 2025 kidlit faculty
You are powerfully you are çapavle you are deserving etc.
Today, some are celebrating. And some of us are grieving the state of our country and the willingness of many to prioritize the wealthy and the heterosexual + cisgender white persons over the lives of all others. Wherever you are today, I hope this post reminds you that you matter.
If your are helped you survive something, it’s already a masterpiece.
Two people dancing with faces as YMWJ Podcast logo and ???
A butterfly in therapy saying “I finally became a butterfly, and everyone’s already asking what’s next”
If there’s one thing to remember today it’s that you already have all the strength, wisdom, and magic you’re searching for. Your light doesn’t need permission—just space to shine.
Information on YMWJ Podcast episode 12.
Episode notification that says Chapter 56 “kindness corner with Danielle Render Turmaud”