The Mom, Wife, Dream Life

Most of the time, when the weather starts to shift and things get colder, so do our moods and attitudes. Whether people admit it or not, their bodies respond to weather shifts. Which ultimately influences your mind, which then influences your thoughts, which turn into thoughts and/or actions.

Seasonal shifts happen regardless of where you live; some shifts in the seasons are drastic, while others are hardly noticeable until days or weeks later. Where we live, we don’t have a usual change of season; it’s either horribly drastic and frigid, or it’s gradual and confusing. Lately, it’s been warm, hot, freezing, fall weather, back to warm, and now it’s chilly fall weather. It makes no sense, and probably will continue to remain spontaneous.

What Do Seasonal Shifts Affect?

The seasonal shifts can bring families closer together, because not all of them are considered physical. What I mean by this is yes, there are seasonal shifts in the weather, but there are also seasons in every person’s life that shift and bring them closer to their loved ones. Weather plays a significant part in human beings’ attitudes and moods. When the weather is warm, and the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the grass is green, most people are happy and kind-hearted. Whereas if it’s cold, windy, and everything turns grey, most people (not all of course), but most people find it hard to stay optimistic and happy. 

Do a lot of People Have Seasonal Depression? 

Some people may fall into a category of seasonal depression. If you are part of that group, you are not alone! Many people deal with that to some extent or another. I may not have it to the extreme you do, but the cold weather definitely changes my attitude and the way I feel in general. You are not alone; there is help and support for you. If you need that assistance or want extra help, do not be embarrassed, afraid, or ashamed in seeking it. Everyone needs help with something at some point in their lives. Get help, and get better so that you can be happy about life and this change of the season you are in.

This change in weather can bring families closer together. Families were made to be bonded, made to be close-knit, and made to be a team. Families are there to love, support, encourage, teach, learn, and grow with each individual in that family. Most families tend to draw closer as the weather cools, because that typically means the big family-filled holidays are coming up. Families want to be together; we are human beings. Humans are drawn to other humans because we want to feel wanted, needed, seen, heard, and accepted. When the weather and seasons shift, our loved ones are brought closer to us because we want to be able to share and enjoy the upcoming celebrations and holidays with one another. Nobody deserves to be alone on those special holidays.

What Do I Want to Do When Cold Weather Shows Up?

I don’t know about you, but for me, when fall weather and winter weather start showing up, I want to curl up in a blanket, drink hot cocoa next to a fireplace, and snuggle up with my husband and kids while we watch the leaves/snow fall outside the windows. That to me sounds like the perfect day. I want to be close to my loved ones and close to my husband and kids.

It’s hard to be close to our loved ones when we are in the midst of seasonal changes in our personal lives. Our lives are hectic, everyone’s lives are busy and full of schedule changes and mishaps. No matter who you meet, run into, or interact with, that person, those people have shifts and changes in their lives that you and I don’t even know about. What might be a small shift to you may be a huge shift to someone else. It shouldn’t matter what shift or season you are at in your life; everyone needs support and love from those around them.

How Can I Prepare For Colder Weather? 

Big and/or small seasons need the proper care to ensure a good move into the next one. For example, when prepping your house for winter, you need to make sure the sprinkler system is blown out and that all outside responsibilities are safely taken care of to avoid breaking and damage throughout the winter storms. Just like with this, we must be prepared for our own life storms and seasons to help us get through to the next one. One way we can do this is by spending time with family and friends who make us happy, who lighten our life trials, and support us in everything we do, seek, and want to achieve.

What exactly is a seasonal shift that’s not weather-related? Some seasonal shifts that are not weather-related may include:

• Moving to a new house/apartment
• Having a baby
• Adopting a pet
• Graduating from High School
• Going off to college
• Going on a church mission
• Graduating College
• Starting a full-time job
• A loved one passes away
• Losing a job
• Mental health crisis
• Financial hardships

Seasonal shifts can be good or bad. When they are good, who do you go to to share the happy and good news? Your loved ones and the people that are close to you, right? You want to share the exciting thing that happened, you want to share that job interview you got, the school you got accepted to, the positive test on the bathroom counter, etc. Happy and good seasonal shifts can bring you closer to your family and increase the bonds you have with them.

Who Can I Rely On During a Seasonal Shift? 

When seasonal shifts aren’t as good, they bring a damper to your life. You drift towards those same important people in your life. Those people are there to support you, there to listen and lend a helping hand when life gets you down in the dumps. These changes won’t be forever, but even if they last a while, you have the people around you to lift you when life gets hard.

These seasonal shifts, good and/or bad, are to bring you closer to your family members and loved ones. They are to strengthen our bonds, our relationships, and our families in general. We do better in those seasons of life when our families are closer together. I hope during these fall weather days we can become and get closer to our family members and those loved ones we have that make us better human beings. I hope we can approach the seasonal shifts with a better view of our lives and be able to prepare for them in the best way by turning to those we love, who also love us back in return.

“The changing of the seasons is a reminder to live in the present and accept each moment as it comes.”

McKenna Sanders

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