We are a few weeks into spring! This season always has the potential to create a sense of renewal and growth, making it the perfect time to focus on and prioritize your self-care and well-being. Consider spending some time to reflect on the changes you want to make in your life and how you plan to prioritize your self-care throughout this season. Consider how you want to feel at the end of the season and work backward on what it will take to feel that way. Remember, you are worth it!

I don’t know if you felt any different energy during the full harvest moon on Monday, but I know I sure did. Change is in the air once again. As we continue to navigate these tumultuous times, it may be time to bring some intentionality forth and put attention on where you are heading and where you want to go, and determining if the two are in alignment.

The change of the seasons is a powerful time to set intentions for the upcoming season and the remainder of the year. What might you do to honor yourself today to set up a season of flourishing? A powerful practice is to ask yourself, “What do I need today to honor myself?” or “What can I do to honor a part of myself that needs it today?” When you ask yourself, what comes up for you? Is there any underlying message you're hearing but wanting to ignore?

No matter what your experience is like through this; it is valid. Your emotions, your feelings, and your thoughts are valid, and there is space for them. During times of uncertainty and change, it is crucial for us to allow space for, feel and process the emotions and thoughts that are coming up for us.

In these times of uncertainty and challenge, it’s even more critical for us to lean into self-care and perhaps adjust our practices to ensure we are adapting to the situation around us. It’s normal to feel many emotions during these times. It’s important to allow yourself to feel, process your feelings, and work on letting them go, and it is important to set boundaries around activities that are not serving us and our emotions well.

As we transition into spring, it can be a time to pause, reflect, and evaluate what is serving our truest selves, and what needs to be released because we have outgrown it, or because it is no longer serving us. As we transition out of winter and toward spring, what can we do to prepare for a spring cleaning within ourselves?

As we approach the end of January, our excitement for the New Year begins to fade and those habits we wanted to change begin to crowd out our new desired behaviors we swore we were going to stick with this year. Maybe this year we can try it differently. Focusing on small daily actions that are loving to yourself to stay the course.

By forgiving yourself, you can stop the shame and start healing, creating a more loving and deep connection with yourself and others.

But through the past few years of this deep inner work, I now know powerful thoughts and images that seem to appear from nowhere are the fear of that small and scared child inside me holding onto some feeling of comfort she thinks she needs. She has learned to use powerful thoughts and imagery to try and protect me, but I know what is behind those now. It’s my six-year-old self, trying to not become harmed in this world. I used to get quite angry with this part of myself, but I realized that is only becoming angry with another part of myself. A part that so badly needs to feel love, belonging and safety.

Show yourself some love today and each day for the remainder of February. There are resources below, one for each day for the remainder of February. I ask you to consider creating practices or building upon practices of self-love for just these two weeks to see what it may bring to you.

There is a lot of talk about gratitude this time of year, and many of us express thanks for things and people. But, I’d like you to consider if you are really taking the time to lean in to the feelings of gratitude, especially during a time of year that is filled with so much activity and often stress.

Self-care from a place of self-love replaces our easy button activities with ones that are good for our future selves. They are actions that will to allow us to wake up tomorrow feeling better and less tense.