I feel "cheated" on - by nature 😅

Do you have a favorite season? Mine is spring.

I love the slowly rising temperatures, the noticably 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 😏)!

Well, bottomline, 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!

But all those changes in these external cycles also make me realize how important our internal cycles are. Like, hormonal and nutritional cycles, allostatic capacities, nervous system rests, to name only a few. It's about staying balanced, or knowing how to return to our homeostatic state quickly, when our external environment just doesn't "play along".

For me that means finding 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.

How do you honor your cycles, and return to center if something external throws you off?

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