Winter is a difficult time for many people. Seasonal changes can have a huge impact on our mental health and wellness in the colder months. It’s important to take extra steps to look after our health and well-being. Making good decisions about winter self-care can really help us to enjoy a more comfortable season.
Winter Self-Care
Looking after your mental well-being is important all the time but can be most essential during colder weather. With winter fast approaching, and other stressors like cost-of-living increases to deal with, this year may be especially trying for all of us. Here are some of the best ways we can look after our mental health and wellness this coming winter.
Stay Sociable This Winter
If you are the type of person who enjoys social interaction, try to remain as sociable as possible. This is one effective way to ward off the winter blues. In the cold and dark months, many people can feel cut off and isolated. This can have a negative impact on our mental health and well-being. Socializing as much as possible with friends, family, or colleagues, even via phone calls or FaceTime can make a huge difference.
Stay On Top of Your Finances
Many things that can impact mental health during this time of year. One important priority is to not let holiday spending get the best of us. Taking charge of your finances is one of the best ways to avoid or reduce stress, worry, and anxiety. There are many factors that play a part in this; we each need to implement ideas that will help us personally. In general, avoid overspending on gifts. And think twice about discretionary spending, always, but especially at this time of year.
Winter Self-Care Remedies
When it comes to improving health and well-being, it’s always good to consider the use of remedies that have proven effective. Things like CBD oil can have a huge impact on our mental wellness. Using remedies like this can go a long way towards helping to ease anxiety and stress, and to help us all feel more happy, content, and comfortable.
As you can see, there are quite a few easy things that we can do to help us avoid typical seasonal depression by spending some time on self-care.
Do all you can to help maintain an even keel this winter.
Thank you as always for reading.
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Joan Senio is the founder of KindCompassCoach. Her career includes 20+ years as a health care executive and 15 years (and counting) as a consultant. The common thread through Joan’s professional life has been a commitment to lead, mentor and coach current and future leaders, and women from all walks of life. KindCompassCoach provides information and advice grounded in Joan’s personal experience; however, all articles are backed by research and provide facts and advice from a wide variety of experts. Joan also serves as a thought-leader for KuelLife.com and is a regular contributor to PsychReg and Sixty and Me.
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