If you’re starting the new year with depression, I’m there with you today. I want to offer you advice based on my many cycles of depression since childhood, and my fourth dark night of the soul in three years.
These are the things I’m doing today after taking time to reflect on everything that happened in 2024, which felt depressing for several reasons. I want to get to a better place, and I hope you do too.
Irritation and seasonal affective disorder can go together. But they aren’t inevitably linked. Here’s what I’m learning about both of them.
Are you trying to beat the winter blues? I took the opportunity to be more mindful today, and it brought me God’s peace despite my winter blues.
During the shorter, darker days of winter, the winter blues affect not just me, but my marriage. It’s bad enough when I struggle with winter blues, but since my husband also struggles with them, our marriage suffers a double whammy.
Over the years, I’ve learned ways to cope with the winter blues and even fight back with healthy methods. I’m sharing them today at A Wife Like Me. Here’s a peek at my post, and I hope you’ll head over to read the rest.
In this final post of my winter blues series, we’ll talk about the importance of reaching out and using intentional friendship to beat seasonal affective disorder.
We have covered light therapy, eating right, and self care in the past series posts. I hope you’ll check those out too, so you’ll have a full arsenal of ways to battle your winter blues.
Let’s look at five ways reaching out can boost your mood in the winter.