What do you think of winter?

Do you love the season and look forward to it, or do you flat out loathe it? Tanya Curtis looks at the impact of winter on our mental health and provides five ways to keep the winter blues at bay.

What does winter mean to you?

When I think of winter I think of Ugg boots, jackets, scarfs, electric blankets, heaters and replaces. I also think of the shorter days and longer nights – mostly only seeing outside in nighttime with early starts and late finishes.

Do foods really impact our moods? Fabic Behaviour Specialist and Counsellor Tanya Curtis looks into the correlation.

Foods are used in so many ways. Some may use food for its true purpose – to support 
our physical body to live its full potential. However, many, if not most, use foods beyond this purpose. If we consider honestly we can see that foods are used in many situations. We use foods when we are emotional, happy, sad, depressed, angry, frustrated, excited, celebrating an occasion, socialising etc.

Observing a playground full of children, it does not take long to identify a similar feel to a hospital and even an airport. How you may ask? Three vastly different places, how could they possibly be similar? Simple, all three places are filled with emotions of varying intensity from one spectrum to the other - complete sadness for some yet overwhelming joy for another; all in one place.