You're listening to the beautiful mess podcast. As two gals who grew up in the Midwest

we thought we'd share some tips around how to not get too sad during a

long winter. That's right this episode is all about hibernation wisdom. Plus we're

also sharing another embarrassing story involving a Christmas gift that I tried to give

someone that was rejected.

I'm excited. All right, so we're talking about the winter blues, I think for many years. I was in denial that this affects me. I wanted to be above it

But I was wrong. No one's above it. Yeah, I get a little sad in the winter and I really think more than the cold it's the

lack of sunlight for me so anyway over the years I've tried a lot of things I've heard

of a lot of tips from other friends and I know you have some things

Elsie so we're gonna talk about stuff that we've done in the past and also some things

that we're doing this year trying out and we'd also love to hear from you all any hibernation or winter blues

tips. And maybe I should say just before we get started, this is for a very mild, like just feeling a little bit down in the winter.

If you're feeling like you can't get out of bed or you're feeling feelings of self-harm,

definitely reach out to someone.

That is completely different than what we're talking about in this episode and I'm sure that's probably obvious to 99% of you

But I did just want to put that out there

Definitely take care of yourself because you're all very very important.

Yeah just in case and yeah starting therapy is like the best decision I made in

2019 so highly recommend. If you need help get help it's a very bold and courageous

thing to do and we all sometimes need that but we're talking about a much more

mild just feeling a bit down because there's not a lot of sunlight and it's cold.

So let's talk about tips for this.

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