Hello, good morning and welcome back to Morning Ray. I'm your host, Lan or Alana, and today's episode is all about navigating the winter blues, or as some of you may call it or have it, seasonal effective disorder, it definitely can get a little bit gloomy

and down and crowded up in our minds when it comes to the winter months. I definitely know it happens

for me. The past few years, though, I feel like I finally got a grip on it and I haven't felt as down, haven't experienced

the winter blues as much in the past years. And so I thought I put together a little episode

of how I personally navigate it and hopefully maybe some of these things might help you

a little bit. Maybe it's something you haven't tried before.

Again, take what you wish you will. It's nothing groundbreaking over here. I'm just a 25 year old

girl sharing my thoughts and insights and inputs and what I do on a day-to-day basis. So if you don't

like that, feel free to click out. No one is making you listen to this episode,

but I would love if you came and hung out with me. Yeah, I love you guys so much and I always appreciate all of you who have been so supportive towards me and of the show and of my

socials and everything over the past four or so years or even, I guess, more because the podcast

has been around for four years,

but I've been on socials for maybe eight years.

Thank you.

I'm so appreciative of all of you guys reading your kind comments on Spotify in the podcast

reviews, comments on socials, and my DMs.

It's always so heartwarming and I love getting to connect and chat with you guys. Again,

another disclaimer. If the ads are too much for you, the fast forward button does exist. I use

it all the time. I have to make a living somehow and I give you guys this for free and the ads is

how I make money to be able to pay my bills. I do do this full time.

So I'd appreciate it if you just didn't leave comments commenting on that because I don't really

think I'm going to be blunt here. I don't have more ads than the average podcast host and it's free.

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