8 Ways to Feel Delighted Even in the Dead of Winter

The holidays are over, which for some of us is a huge relief, but for others is disappointing and depressing. It also doesn’t help that many of us live in places where darkness descends in the late afternoon, and the temperatures are bone chilling (no matter how many layers we layer!). Which leads us to spend less time outside, and less time with others. All of this makes it tough to feel genuine joy and delight. It can be a gloomy time of year, and gloomy is exactly how we feel. During winter, clients regularly tell therapist Melissa Divaris Thompson that they feel alone and tired. All. The. Time. They share that when they’re done with work, all they yearn to do is lay down on the couch and stay there. Wintertime also is a season of slow. And once we slow down, we might “find we don’t feel so good,” said Thompson, LMFT, a holistic psychotherapist who specializes in seeing adult women and couples in their 20s and 30s in New York City. “We may tap into our feelings and realize how depleted we are.” Brandice Schnabel’s clients feel like they haven’t had a chance to process what happened in December (namely complex family dynamics), and yet they’ve been catapulted into the land of new year’s resolutions and transformations. Schnabel, LISW-S, is a psychotherapist and founder of Sky Witness Healing Arts, a private practice in North Canton, Ohio, that provides counseling from a clinical and/or shamanic perspective based on each client’s needs. But winter d...
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