Self Care Season | 10 rituals to support yourself through the winter blues
The Daily Grind
Angie Bellemare
5.0 • 618 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
February can feel heavy. The holidays are over, winter feels endless, and motivation can dip. In this video, I’m sharing 10 gentle, intentional rituals to help support yourself through the winter blues and seasonal sadness without pressure or burnout. This is about slowing down, creating warmth, theming your month with care, and building simple routines that help you feel more grounded, supported, and like yourself again. You don’t need to overhaul your life. You just need a softer, more intentional approach to this season.If winter has been weighing on you, let this be your reminder that you are worth the time and energy it takes to take care of yourself right now. Nurture now, grow later.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm I feel like every time that January comes to a close, I get more and more aware of how much I used to struggle with seasonal sadness. |
| 0:31.6 | And I just make sure that I re-up on all of the habits that I've instilled into my life, just little routines that I've done because I really used to struggle with it. |
| 0:42.3 | And knowing that I'm leaving Disney and going back to the colder climate with the earlier nights and the sun setting and it being dark at 3.30 in the afternoon, I not only made sure that I soaked up |
| 0:57.3 | every last ounce of fun with my friends in Disney World, but also just being mentally prepared. |
| 1:03.4 | And that's what I wanted to talk to you about today. So I figured what we could do was not only |
| 1:07.1 | have a fun little adventure in Disney World, but travel home together and then talk about |
| 1:12.8 | seasonal sadness, how I've conquered it. I feel like a little pro and just give some really |
| 1:18.5 | awesome tips as to what I do that are super easy and so simple, but so many people just don't do them. |
| 1:25.3 | And we rode dinosaur for the last time. I thought I would shed a tear, but it was more just a little heartwarming |
| 1:33.4 | memory. And it was one of the first rides I ever went on. So it was so special. And I got to ride it with my |
| 1:38.8 | best friend. Andre came with us also. And it was just it was such a good start to our evening and it was just |
| 1:44.3 | absolutely amazing so yeah this video is going to be filled with some life stuff some real |
| 1:51.0 | stuff some fun stuff some Valentine's Day stuff and it's jam-packed so buckle up |
| 2:07.6 | now I think that it's interesting that this will also be just a quick little tip for anybody that struggles with travel anxiety. That is something I also used to struggle |
| 2:13.4 | with. And I would love one day to make a full video on it but this is a lot of what I do to |
| 2:18.7 | prepare to travel and being somebody that really really struggled with flying in the |
| 2:24.4 | past and this is something else that I really conquered I think some of it was just |
| 2:30.6 | lack of preparation so just making sure that I'm prepared whenever I fly that |
| 2:34.1 | everything that I need is done making sure that I'm prepared whenever I fly that everything that I need is done, |
| 2:36.3 | making sure that I can multitask on the plane. That would be a really good tip for you. So I love my little switch two that I got. So I play Donkey Kong Bonanza right now and I absolutely love it. But I will play that well having these noise canceling headphones in and having a movie going on my iPad or a TV show or whatnot. |
| 2:54.6 | So I really try and multitask. I also don't have any caffeine. I don't have any caffeine anymore at all, but I would not suggest it before flying is just going to elevate your heart rate. |
| 3:02.6 | So speaking of Valentine's Day and just getting into the end of January, beginning of February mode, we are going to do a little bit of decorating. |
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