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My December post revealed some profound work and life experiences linked to the hustle and bustle of the holiday season.

It also offered suggestions on how to navigate the darkest time of the year.

Truth guides the northern hemisphere during the Winter Solstice.

For more, see my previous post.

Now more than a month into 2026, I continue to reflect on Truth and wellbeing during the winter months.

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Reflecting on the Holiday Season

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What was your experience during the holiday season, and what Truth did you find about self-care?

How did you establish time for self-care, through solitude or belonging?

What strategies did you use if you felt disconnected?

Did you feel isolated in the social fray?

Were you already processing goals and aspirations for the New Year?

Did January 1, 2026 signify cleaning the slate and a new start?

For me, I experienced both establishing connection and feeling isolated.

Alongside challenging socio-economic dynamics in the ski market, temperatures were variable and unusually warm and dry.

In spite of my best intentions to offer fun skiing experiences, weather influenced my clients’ plans to visit.

They cancelled ski vacations, disrupting both social connections and business transactions; Truth guided my next steps.

Trusting there might be a silver lining, I set out to establish a new network and clientele.

A highlight is a guest returning after twenty years with a new hip who kept her half-day lesson.

On December 25, with rainy conditions, she agreed to extend to a full day.

After lunch, we extended the lesson and returned to ski, sharing stew and home-baked bread.

What happened next reminded us perseverance can coexist with weather.

The sun broke through the clouds, a breeze picked up which dried out the snow, and mother nature presented a mystical world in which to schuss the slopes. The mornings learning, and connections, knit together and my guest experienced the joy of dancing with gravity on skis down a pristine—and uncrowded—ski slope. It was the perfect set up for our following days together!

My daughters and I do connect, frequently on the “Fambam” group text my youngest established for herself, her sister and me. We exchange photos of the days’ activities, particularly what we are cooking. The connection is reinforced with their requests for recipes for their favorite childhood suppers, and their sharing with me recipes they’ve concocted themselves as young women navigating professional and personal pathways.

The isolation I experience is my adult children live and work on opposite sides of the country. This was the first holiday I didn’t send holiday boxes “on time”—though they did receive a pound of their favorite coffee beans and an air tight container in which to store them. The care packages intended for Christmas are now Valentine’s Day tokens. Fortunately, I still have a couple of weeks to ship the boxes!

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Best Practices as the New Year Unfolds

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Candidly, the last couple of months have felt chaotic as external forces I cannot control impact my life.

The other factor is my own decisions to keep resolutions, which contribute to self-created time challenges.

Truth reminds me to pause, take six to twelve slow breaths, and declare I am practicing self-care today.

The world and work can wait until I get back.

For me, a fundamental cornerstone to wellbeing is, regardless of what’s going on in the winter months, I make time to go to the rec center. Most days I at least spin for 20 minutes on a stationary bike while listening to provocative hip hop music on “Work Out Pump” on my air buds before I hit the hot tub. Some days I will add in my motor skill regimen involving stretching rubber bands in multiple planes after the spin, and every once in a while I include functional movement and loaded weight work outs. On days I am tired and have little time, I go directly to the hot tub and soak, even if only for 10 minutes. The routine releases the day’s thoughts, emotions, and related energies so I can reset before I get home.

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Move Forward With Grace

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As the days get longer and you consider how you are transitioning from one year to the next, and whether and how your resolutions are going, be gentle with yourself. The truth about resolutions is they entail a process, including an ebb and flow. If feeling stuck, just do one simple thing a day. If you are on a roll, pause and take a breath. Either way, reassess what is the next best step…one step.  Let’s have a conversation about what that move may be!