HAVE A joyful JANUARY

SO HERE WE ARE. January. The festive season has passed, leaving dark days and darker nights. It’s possible that guilt about overspending, overeating and overdoing it during the festive season is creeping in. Then there’s the pressure to begin reinventing yourself. To cast off your vices and become healthier, thinner, more successful, wealthier, more worthy of love, more appealing to get followers and likes. All of these things you’re told are what you need, what you have to become, if you want to be happy. You’ll notice all of the things don’t factor in the natural world at all.

At a time when the natural world is still regrouping and gathering its strength, you’re punishing yourself for who you’ve been and pushing yourself to become someone else entirely. You’re trying to force delicate, nascent shoots out of depleted, undernourished soil and they will not thrive. These dark days are ideal for nurturing and