Sitting under a blanket with a warm cup of tea & reading a book is one of my favorite things to do when it’s cold out. The cold makes it easy to skip your workout, the sun going down sooner means you feel tired earlier, and the holidays make overindulging easy. This can lead to a vitamin D deficiency and the ‘winter blues’. This makes winter a great time to start a self care practice. We want to prevent these blues from happening so we need to incorporate winter self care practices to boost our mood.
You need to feel good about yourself and take those tiny steps to your goals right now. No matter how small or insignificant you believe they are, if they’re important enough to pop up in your head, then they need to be out there! December is a great time to move towards your goals and get your butt in gear. This way, when January hits, you can hit the ground running. But do you know what you need to feel good and get the ball rolling? Yup, some self care and you time.
How do you plan to get in winter self care? What brings you joy? Is it organizing a closet? Donating things? Volunteering your time? Take a moment to sit and think about what really sparks joy within you. Then go for that! Because when you feel your best you’ll be your best. And if you’re allowing those negative thoughts to creep up and hang out in your mind, your self esteem and sense of adventure tend to go down.
Having a hard time to pick out some activities to do? Let’s look at a few ideas I had while sitting in silence trying to think of some winter self care ideas. Hope you enjoy. I believe in you and all your goals you have my friend.
30 Winter Self Care Ideas
- Get up early and sit in the quiet
- Watch the sunrise
- Cuddle under a blanket and read a book or magazine
- Take a hot bath with DIY bath salts
- Workout
- Bundle up and spend time in nature
- Meditate
- Be creative (watercolor, lettering, scrapbook) even if you feel you’re ‘not good’ at it!
- Let’s Make Art has some great and easy tutorials!
- Go get your nails done
- Get a massage
- See a reiki or energy worker
- Set a timer and do a 10 minute tidy
- Blast music and dance
- Start a gratitude journal
- Watch videos or read memes that make you laugh
- Take some time off work
- Be a tourist in your town
- Watch it snow
- Warm up some hot coffee, coffee, or glühwein
- Volunteer a few hours of your time
- Tell someone ‘no’ when asked to do something
- Incorporate extra roots vegetables into a meal
- These are what’s now in season so will have the highest nutritional value and be cheaper
- Drink water throughout the day
- Buy an exfoliator and good moisturizer then pamper yourself post shower or bath!
- Set an early bedtime
- Go see a holiday movie
- Say positive things about winter and the change of season
- Diffuse balsam fir or cinnamon, vanilla, and orange in your essential oil diffuser to feel festive!
- Read more about cinnamon essential oil here.
- Play a board game
- We have a yoga board game we play that the girls love
- Plan an outing with friends
Thanks for reading! If you liked this, share it with a friend or pin it on Pintrest to read later. Have a blessed week. I believe in you! xo Meghan
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