Embracing the Dark Times of Winter
How do we get through the dark times? Relationship struggles, lack of motivation, financial troubles, overwhelm, and depression all seem to have an uptick at this time of the year. Maybe you're like me, working tirelessly to make your dreams come alive, persistently following through with acting on what you're manifesting but at the end of the day you feel no closer to your goals… Doing the best you can every day, doing everything you can to repair, to feel into the dissonance that's inside you, strengthen relationships, keep the bank account growing, nourishing your creation, expression, and excitement to stay in a healthy, motivated space of moving forward... Doing your best taking time for self-care, eating healthy, and exercising… and still the feeling of stagnancy remains, the bills keep piling up, tensions rise, you feel like you need a month vacation but can't afford any time off, and the Winter is only just beginning…
All that's left is gratitude, and deepening self-appreciation. You ARE “making it happen”. It's not an overnight success, but it's progressively succeeding through the chaotic obstacle course of life. You're growing like a tree. You can look closely and it doesn't seem like it's really doing anything, at ALL! It's almost frustrating and boring but underneath it all you're growing and becoming more resilient which isn't a super colorful, or externally visible process.
This small chapter of your life is like the winter itself: cold, no new visible growth, a driving sense of protection, the world around you seems to get quieter, it might seem like there just aren't as many opportunities around. This is a time to feel into it, exercise living in Love; showing gratitude to yourself, your circle, your home, your passions, and your work. It's the traditional time of year for collecting wood, gathering extra food and supplies, shoveling snow and nourishing the energies that will give birth to new life in the new year.
For me that's quite literal! While I don't have a wood stove, and we don't get much snow out here, my wife and I are having a baby; to welcome into our big hearts and tiny home, in the middle of Winter, in the middle of a farm field, on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean, there's a whole new life for us to nurture who's going to emerge into the world around mid-January. I am bursting with excitement and bustling with nesting energy, exercising Love Over Fear to stay in the abundance mindset to be sure every piece of the getting-ready process is physically there and energetically brought into fruition in the spirit of abundance, creation, and Love.
I'm so grateful for the connections that I've made online, really putting myself out there with writing, massively putting a face to the Love Over Fear and Love, Healing & Expansion work with a large amount of video production. Videos at IG: @lovehealingexpansion The organic creation of an authentic online presence is a monumental task, that at times seems very fruitless, but as I wrote in my article, “The Unseen Ripples of Love”, there's an infinite amount of amazing end results of which I will never know, but get glimpses of this connection of Love happening, and it's that subtle encouragement that helps keeps me pushing onward.
A massive thank you to anyone reading this, anyone supporting my work, reading my book, Love Over Fear, and to those taking the time to exercise presence, Love, gratitude, and awareness in their life.
In the vein of self-appreciation, I feel called to add in, if you find yourself Christmas shopping at a book store, I would be absolutely ecstatic if you request that they get “Love Over Fear: A Foundation for Autonomy” stocked on their shelves. This book is filled with thought-provoking and inspiring Love-based philosophy and offers amazing opportunities for developing as a sovereign individual, the demand is out there and the book is fresh, modern, and just coming out into the world from an unknown author.
I wish all of you an amazing season of peace and Love!
With Gratitude,
J. Wesley
