07/07/2025
✨💖Today is a great day to explore and recharge this practice!
If you have not tried it yet, I invite you to begin collecting songs that feel especially good and resonant with the beautiful summer weather we are experiencing.
If you have already made a playlist, I invite you to put it on, ride around to it, sing to it, dance to it. Remove anything that doesn’t go in the flow of how you’re feeling and add anything that takes the vibes up a level.
Even if you identify with experiencing seasonal depression or feel particularly swayed based on the weather one way or another — today is still a beautiful day to explore joy through music. 💖✨
With the weather turning, now is a great time to start practicing strategies to get ahead of seasonal depression. If you’ve ever dealt with seasonal depression, I’m inviting you to try making a playlist of songs that remind you of riding around on a warm, sunny, summer day with the Window down and the wind blowing. Songs that make you feel like it’s a beautiful day outside. Make a playlist of songs you’d wanna hear at the summer kickback or on a trip to the beach. If you’re in the house throw on some shorts and a tank or a sundress. Envision yourself full of joy and peace while listening to the playlist. This gives your mind and body the experience of summertime fun in the sun. Your body is a complex machine that functions based on established pathways. Engaging numerous senses in an experience that simulates summertime fun can trigger your body to react as if this is reality. ☀️🌞🌻🌼
*I highly encourage you to PRACTICE CHALLENGING negative thoughts such as “but it’s not summer” “this doesn’t feel like the real thing” this is stupid” “there’s still no sun” “this just makes me miss summer/social interactions more and now I feel worse”. Challenge them by 1. Asking if they are facts. 2. Asking if it helps you to think that thought.
If the answer to either or both of those questions is no, replace the thought with something more aligned with your purpose. “It may not be the real thing but it’s still fun/it still feels good.” “These brings back so many happy memories.” Even a “I love this song!” GRATITUDE—for the moment and everything that makes the moment (music/clothes/food/device to play music/etc) can always help to reset your mind and energy.
