Irritation and seasonal affective disorder can go together. But they aren’t inevitably linked. Here’s what I’m learning about both of them.
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How to Be Mindful to Beat Winter Blues
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.
When Winter Blues Affect Your Marriage
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.
How to Reach Out and Fight Off Winter Blues
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.
Eating Right to Fight Off Winter Blues
Today, we’ll look at how eating right makes a huge difference in the battle against winter blues. Last time, we discussed light therapy. and I encourage you to read that post if you struggle with seasonal affective disorder like me.
No girl loves sweets more than me. Christmas is my favorite time for indulging in cookie after cookie, because I love to bake.
But when those winter blues hit me hard in January, I change my eating habits. Not necessarily to lose weight. I change my eating plan to fight off winter blues.