While you should try and do what you can to focus on your health for the long term, wellness doesn’t always stay the same from season to season. For example, in the winter, you’re getting significantly less Vitamin D than you are in the spring and summer. You might want to change up your diet or add supplements to help this.
Maybe you’ve noticed that the body doesn’t feel the same in July as it does in January, and daily habits usually don’t either. Winter rolls in, and you’re tired, dry, cold, and a bit more bothered by everything. Summer turns up, and now sleep’s a mess, appetites are all over the place, and nobody wants to eat anything heavy while melting into a kitchen chair. So yeah, of course, wellness habits change with the seasons.
While it might not seem like it, that’s actually a good thing. It doesn’t mean somebody’s inconsistent or doing wellness “wrong”. It just means life shifts, the weather shifts, and the things that feel useful start shifting too. A routine that feels great in one season can feel completely unhelpful in another; it’s honestly as simple as that, really.
Winter Usually Makes Everything Feel a Bit Needier
The cold weather really does have a way of making the body feel like it needs more from absolutely everything. Including more sleep, more comfort, more moisture, more warmth, more effort just to feel halfway normal. Skin starts acting up, throats get scratchy, the heating makes the air feel dry, and everybody seems to know at least one person who’s coughing somewhere nearby. It’s not exactly a season that encourages peak energy. You get the point! Winter can be rough. Be it indoors or outdoors, it can be a struggle for a lot of people.
But the winter is all about taking it slower, easier, softer, like having warmer meals, hot drinks become weirdly important, and people start reaching for things that feel soothing and easy to keep around. That might mean herbal teas, lip balm in every coat pocket, extra skincare, or propolis liquid drops when the season starts feeling rough around the edges. Some people stock up on certain vitamins, like Vitamin D, as mentioned earlier.
Summer Has its Own Demands
On the other hand, summer just has a way of pulling you outside, doesn’t it? But the sun can turn up and just act like everybody should feel effortlessly amazing just because its here. Except warm nights can impact sleep, busy weekends can leave people feeling run down, and hot weather can make regular routines feel a bit off as well. There are perks to the summer, but some not-so-great things as well.
As winter is about hearty meals and warmer drinks, well, it’s the total opposite for the warming months. You want to be outside more, you want light meals, maybe even colder meals; your habits are totally different. Your habits totally change.
The In-Between Seasons Tend to Shuffle Things Again
Both Spring and Autumn have that weird in between of both being hot and cold. They both tend to nudge routines around in quieter ways. Spring often brings that urge to reset a bit. People want fresher food, more movement, open windows, and a bit less of the heavy, hibernating feeling that winter drags in.
Autumn usually goes the other way. It starts bringing people back indoors, back into more structure, back towards earlier nights and steadier habits. But for the most part, both seasons are similar enough to where those transitions in routines happen.
Summary
So no matter what the season is, listen to your body. If you tune into your routine and habits, you can usually tell what your mind and body are craving. You might need to do a little research to help with certain elements if you aren’t sure what you need. The main takeaway is, that you shouldn’t feel guilty or like its ‘wrong’ to not have the same routine all year round. Our bodies change and adapt, so we should support that.
LL x
*This is a contributed post. As ever, all opinions are my own.
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