When it’s cold outside

When it’s windy and dark and wet outside it’s so good to be inside, warm and dry. To draw the curtains, light the fire and eat hot food gives a comforting feeling of safety and protection. Therapy is a lot like that. You’ve been metaphorically out in the wind and rain and you may not have had your big coat on. Instead of fighting the elements it’s time to come in and dry off.

This month I will be welcoming the arrival of the Winter Solstice. It may not feel like it for a while but the days will get incrementally longer and we can set our sights on the coming of Spring. No rush though. We need the cold and dark, the wet and muddy. It cultivates our appreciation of warm sunshiny days with blue skies. How I wish that it was the Solstice that gave us a Bank Holiday to feast and celebrate the momentous turning point in the natural year. It seems a more balanced approach than a heavily loaded review/goal setting event of the calendar New Year – so much pressure! Better to create your beautiful life whenever the inspiration takes you and moves you. The now is always good. Not everyone enjoys this time of year. If that’s you, please remember, it will come and it will go.

However you are spending the coming weeks I hope they are filled with love and acceptance. Thank you for reading again and again. I especially appreciate it when you stop to tell me that you have as I love to hear what you think. Waes Hael! (Good Health!).