Cultivating Cozy (& Tips for Dealing With the Winter Months)

Roots and Refuge Podcast

Jessica Sowards

Home & Garden, Leisure

5 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Hey, y'all! Join me for episode 45 of the Roots and Refuge Podcast.

It’s official, the frost has come, and the summer is finally gone. For many people, this is a time of year that brings with it seasonal depression. In my life, I’ve experienced deeper levels of SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder), however, I’ve found ways to embrace these slower months and cultivate cozy.

There’s a concept that comes from the Danish culture called Hygge. It’s defined as “a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being (regarded as a defining characteristic of Danish culture).”

In this episode, I’m sharing some of the tips I’ve used over the years to help cultivate cozy and get through the dark, sunless winter months.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, what's up?
0:05.8	Welcome back to the Roots and Refuge podcast.
0:08.2	I am your host, Jessica Sauer.
0:09.6	It's my friends call me Jess, and I hope you will too.
0:11.8	And here in my podcast, we talk about all things homesteading, growing food by raising animals, gardening, preserving that food, preparing it, sharing it, and overall just trying to live more mindfully
0:21.9	in relationship with each other and with the earth.
0:25.6	Today, I want to talk to you guys about something that I am making a choice to embrace,
0:30.6	which is cozy season.
0:33.5	Here we do publish new podcast episodes every Wednesday.
0:38.1	Those are available a week early on our Patreon for our Patreon members.
0:42.6	And I talk about any number of things, but sometimes I really do come to this space
0:49.8	to sort of share a little more in depth about my process and the things I've gone through
0:56.8	to get me to where I am. And I have historically dealt with a bit of seasonal depression. I've
1:05.1	really struggled during the winter with not having sunlight hours. And of course, when I became a gardener, I don't know how long that's been ago, 15-ish
1:16.0	years ago, that became such a highlight of my year being involved in the garden.
1:21.9	So whenever the world kind of turns gray and the green goes away and the garden isn't
1:27.0	growing, it kind of compounded and the green goes away and the garden isn't growing, it kind of
1:28.9	compounded what was always an issue. I always dealt with a little bit of the wintertime
1:35.6	blue, specifically in like January, February, after the holiday season wrapped up. And as the
1:41.0	years have gone on, I've really, really had to become very intentional with how I handle myself during the winter months, the cold months, and specifically when the garden is dead.
1:55.9	Now, I say this as a person who lives in a place that has relatively mild winters.
2:00.4	I mean, it does freeze here.
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