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Hey guys, welcome to Tommy Talk. Today's topic is beating those January blues. Okay, the January

blues are real. It is the post-holiday crash, right? We're coming off of so much adrenaline and fun and family and friends and gathering.

And then suddenly it feels like everything's gone.

Like it's taken away.

The decorations are down.

All the massive events that we were going to are no longer occurring, which actually

might be a good thing because I don't know about you, but I'm a little exhausted from the holidays. But still, it's like all of those celebratory moments seem to be gone

and the days are cold and they're dark and you take down your lights and it just feels gloomy. I don't

know. There's the January gloom. It's the January blues. There's also the new year, which means you feel pressure to start

fresh and reinvent your life and have all these new goals and you have to go a million miles a minute

to start achieving them and you're harder on your body and your mind and your spirit. And it's just like,

can I get a second to recalibrate?

So all of that combined really makes you feel the pressure and the intensity of what I call the January blues.

And that's when maybe some low energy comes into play.

Maybe you feel sad or irritable.

Perhaps there's a little brain fog as you're coming back from the holidays or you don't feel

as motivated because when you wake up it's pitch black and when you get out of work it's pitch

black so you're just trying to figure out how to keep going how to feel energized and motivated

and fabulous and fun while dealing with some pretty gloomy conditions and And there are ways to kind of navigate that.

You don't have to feel that way for January, February, March in the darkest times of winter.

You can feel better about yourself in these times when maybe the environment around you is not

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