I am Sarah Jane Case and this is Eniagram and coffee.

Hello friends, welcome back to the podcast.

Today I wanted to talk to you about wintering as we

gear up for a new season and I also wanted to just chat for a minute do a little

catch up. There's kind of a lot going on behind the scenes and I want to make sure we're up to date on what to expect coming soon on the podcast. So normally I take a month off from the podcast each winter.

However, this year I'm going to set up my recordings ahead of time

so that I am still taking time off but there is not going to be a break between seasons.

So we're going to be doing two more weeks of new content and then two weeks of our yearly roundup I create a lot of episodes you

know we're podcasting every day which means that some of my favorites get

buried in the feed so I'm gonna pull a few back to make sure they get seen, just kind of a top 10 highlight reel of the year 2023. And then the first two weeks of January we are doing something that I've never done before and that is a new year's

Extravagansa

Normally I take the month of January off and so I don't create content around what is my favorite

time of year which is the new year and I am so excited to be able to create content for you this year because is this just one of my favorite

conversations to have is just how are we reflecting what are we planning for how do we want to step in to the year ahead, you know, how do we do

the sew in a gentle and loving manner.

So that's what we're going to do.

Now today and next Tuesday we're talking all things wintering. I am

just one of those people who get the winter sads and it's real and it's so crucial for me to be proactive when this season comes around.

One of the ways that I have done that in the past is through thinking of the season as intentionally wintering.

Now I read the book Wintering by Catherine May, which you might be thinking about.

I read that several years ago and to some degree that's kind of what we're talking about but also not exactly. So her book is mostly focused on the emotional element of wintering which we'll touch on a little, but I want to talk about the physical reality

of wintering and wintering in a way that doesn't suck.

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