Hello, welcome to or welcome back to trying not to care. If you're listening in real time,

this episode's coming out a couple days before Thanksgiving. And I feel like after Thanksgiving,

that's when everyone goes into winter mode. I'm already there. If you listen to this podcast,

if you follow me on social media, you already know that I am deep into romanticizing the holidays

and romanticizing winter, even though technically winter isn't until the end of December,

which I don't understand.

But it is about to be winter.

And for a lot of us, that can be quite terrifying, especially if you struggle with seasonal depression or you struggle

with your mental health in general. The days getting shorter and darker and colder can just be

very difficult. So today I want to give you some ideas on how you can romanticize your winter.

I think a lot of us try really hard to just survive the

winter. And I want to help you not only get through the winter, but look forward to it and

embrace it and truly love your life. So here are a few ways that you can romanticize the winter.

Let's get into it. Up until a couple years ago,

I would absolutely dread the time change. It would make me so unbelievably anxious and sad

knowing that it was going to get dark at like 4.35 p.m. Even just the thought of it at the end of

summer or early fall, knowing that was approaching would

make me sick to my stomach especially if you're in school or you work a nine to five by the time you get

out it's dark which is depressing like you spent your entire day inside working and now you get out

and it's pitch black it's cold and you feel like your day's already over when in college, if you don't know, I went to Yukon for three years, and if you don't know anything about Yukon, it is a huge campus. So if you go to school there, you either have to walk or take the bus because there's no parking on campus. And during the winter, it was just unbearable. It was so cold. It was like a huge

wind tunnel. It would hit your face and it would hurt. And the idea of getting out of class and either

having to walk 30 minutes to my dorm or wait in the cold for 15 minutes for a bus to then go

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