End of Fall mood board

When we come to the end of fall what are we thinking about?

Are we thinking about the holidays, maybe the stress that comes with the holiday, the hustle and bustle as you move from activity to location, and back round again? Maybe we are thinking of all the people we are going to be seeing? Maybe we are thinking about how everything around us is receding inwards, cutting off what it can't hold on to throughout these winter months coming up... all the dying off?

What about thinking of it like a chance at renewal and reflection. After the trees shed their leaves, they are left with the rigid and stiff bareness of their silouette.

I've been seeing and reading a lot lately that this bareness the trees "showcase" can be seen as the "inner-being", showcasing what we need to think about and take care of the most. The trees have a transition they must go through at the start of every year, and like clockwork, from the renewal of the winter, the trees bud new blossoms, and by summer they have the power to provide immense shade, protection, and food, for others all around, then as they prepare for their months of cold, harsher conditions, they shed what they can no longer carry, so instead of a burn out, they can be renewed once again in the spring season and be able to give all over again.

How does this mirror us, you may ask?

A lot of us experience a change of feeling in behavoiur and emotion as the winter months come up on us, with the lack of vitamin D from the sun, we experience heigtended symptoms of "seasonal depresson". Many of us take on too much already in one way or another, and experiencing feelings of depression to any degree can make any activity feel 10x harder, unlike the trees, we don't "shed" (say no) so easily. So... that then leaves the questions, how can we slow down, and look inward? How can we ask ourselves what we need throughout these cold, harsher conditioned months? As we prepare for the upcoming seasons of warmth and renewal what do we need to change for ourselves?

Love, Chloe

*the photos displayed here are not mine, sourced from Pinterest, the collage is meant to inspire and bring forth creativity*