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Making a Difference in Your Winter
SAD affects us in different ways, but we can all fix it ourselves.
Have you ever felt down on your luck? Things aren’t going your way, it’s not working out, or you just need to get out of here? Me too. It’s quite the downer. You feel less like yourself every passing moment, the walls close in, you don’t want to even get out of bed.
I think this may be the time of year. Seasonal affective disorder (SAD; I know, apt name indeed) has different ways of rearing its ugly head. Fortunately for me and my fellow West-Coasters, the weather hasn’t been white and below zero constantly, unlike the rest of Canada, but we are still hit with the same weather (cold, rainy and cloudy) for 5 months straight over the winter holidays. It makes for getting up and out a lot more difficult than back in the summer when you’d want to head out every day!
SAD or just plain sad, you’re the one stopping yourself from getting out and making a difference for yourself. It’s difficult I’m sure, but remember that feeling you get the last time you went out and did the things? Focus on that! Focus on taking those little steps towards a better you. Those small steps now pay off dividends over the weeks and months of the winter break.
