Do you have a favorite season? Mine is spring.
I (Sandra) love the slowly rising temperatures, the noticeably longer days, and just the overall awakening and increase in colours after a long white winter here in the Canadian prairies.
Only that this year... spring just doesn't seem to happen!
Last week we've still had overnight frost with -2C, single digits daytime temps... and then this coming week... boom! Up in the +30Cs!!!
Trees exploded into green literally overnight (ok, that's exaggerated - it was over 2 or 3 nights ๐)!
Well, bottom line, it's not the easy transition that I love, but a steep jump. And my body and emotions really struggle to keep up. I'm literally in a grieving state - and as an emotional eater this obviously reflects in my tendency to overeat at the moment.
As a marine biologist having worked with global change and it's effect on aquatic animals performance, I gotta say that all these changes in weather scare me. And it doesn't help that it'll be a Super El Nino year!
๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ฆ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ข๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐.
Like, hormonal and nutritional cycles, allostatic capacities, nervous system rests, to name only a few.
๐๐ญ'๐ฌ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ฒ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ง๐๐๐, ๐จ๐ซ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ก๐จ๐ฆ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ฒ, ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐ฑ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐จ๐ง๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐จ๐๐ฌ๐ง'๐ญ "๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ง๐ ".
For me that means finding (and noticing!) these pockets of joy, the moments that light me up, in the here and now - no matter how long or short spring is this year. To focus on what DOES work, rather than what doesn't.
๐โ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐กโ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ฟ๐ผ๐น๐ธ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐๐ , ๐ค๐โ๐๐ โ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐๐ข๐ ๐๐๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ , โ๐๐ค ๐กโ๐๐ฆ ๐ค๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ก ๐ก๐๐๐๐กโ๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ (๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐) ๐๐ฆ๐๐๐๐ , ๐๐๐ โ๐๐ค ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ ๐ค๐๐กโ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ก ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐๐ฃ๐.
๐๐ผ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ ๐๐จ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐
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