Fall 🍁is a time of transition where you can witness the changes externally everywhere around you. The days become shorter, and the nights become longer. 🌑 We feel the mornings and evenings cool down, and the winds start to pick up. The trees shed their leaves in preparation for the winter ahead, and their colors change from green to more vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows.🍁🍁🍁
Just like the weather and the seasons, your body is constantly adapting and changing along with the environment, both the outside and the inside, which includes your thoughts, emotions, and nutrition.
For some, the Fall season might suggest pumpkin patches, 🎃 Halloween, and Thanksgiving festivities. For others, the shift into Fall might be more about headaches, the flu, 🤧 colds, joint pain, anxiety, and other physiological and psychological symptoms.
Some of Fall’s seasonal effects are dry skin, dehydration, constipation, bloating, insomnia, achy painful joints, irregular digestion and appetite, migraines, headache pressure, weakened immune system, increased appetite, and food cravings, poor circulation, cold hands, and feet, fatigue, anxiety, nervousness, worry, feeling ungrounded, spacey, unsettled, restless and jumpy, overactive mind, overthinking, change in mood and feelings of sadness (SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder).
Here are some tips to maintain wellness during Fall Season:
- Snuggle up. Layer your clothing, keep your neck warm and feet covered. Dry your hair after showering. Surfing, swimming, etc.
- Establish a daily routine with structure and consistency. A routine will help ease your mind, relax your nervous system, and stabilize your digestion and energy.
- Follow a seasonal diet. Eat plenty of grounding root vegetables, such as beets, squashes, carrots, and sweet potatoes.
- Pay attention to what is growing locally and try to eat the organic foods from your local farmers.
- Eat cooked foods. Avoid cold, dry, raw foods instead of having something warm, moist, and well-cooked, like a curry, blended soup, stew, or roasted veggies.
- Incorporate healthy oils and fats into your meals to combat dryness.
- Move your body and get plenty of exercise throughout the day.
As you start to tune into your body more and notice how it responds to different foods or activities during different times of the day, week, and year, you will see that you are constantly changing and adapting to live in harmony with nature and the changing seasons.
➡️ We will be doing just this in “Sync with the Seasons” starting January 2024. If seasonal health appeals to you and you want to learn more, please email us Lori@abalancewithin.com 🫶🏼 ⬅️