To ask for your ideas of how to stay happy this winter

[Learningtofeminist]

Don’t really want to go into all the reasons but we’re having a particularly shitty year and now facing The Covid Winter.

Please give me ideas for how to keep morale up! Currently in a tier 2 area so no socialising indoors, husband has been made redundant so financially constrained, I have gained 10lb due to several (as yet unsuccessful) fertility treatments this year and have no desire to gain any more so baking is not ideal. We have a very social 3-year-old who’s currently at nursery 3.5 days a week and we may have to cut that (see ‘financial constraints’).

I am already feeling a bit hopeless and don’t really want to do anything except sit by the fire and eat cake 😔

I've recently found the Fiton app. It's completely free, but has everything fitness related from yoga and pilates, to HIT and kickboxing, and mindfulness. It's been fab! Something for every mood

Swim. It works for me anyway.

The best thing I have done now kids are at school is go for a walk First thing every single morning. Even if I’m feeling rubbish it massively helps. I work long hours but this is worth finding time for. If DH isn’t working you can leave the 3 year old with him.

Good post @Rapunzathepenguin .