How are you Wintering?

We inhabit systems that reward output over presence.
Visibility over depth.
Doing over being.

From an early age, many of us learned:
“What are you going to do?”
“Be useful.”
“Don’t waste time.”

An empty agenda raises questions.
Slowness is interpreted as a lack of ambition.
Rest must be justified.

In this context, being active all the time is not a personal flaw.
It is a collective survival strategy.

We have learned to become Human Doings rather than Human Beings
in order to earn space, attention, and worth.

What we have largely lost is an appreciation for the necessity of rest, peace, reflection, and contemplation —
states that can only truly emerge when we disconnect from constant external input
and create a deliberate, protected space to return to ourselves.

Many people today lack awareness of seasonality in their own lives.
The rhythm of expansion and contraction.
Action and stillness.
Expression and integration.

As a society, we have become highly skilled at thinking and doing.
And we have largely forgotten feeling and resting.

Yet evolution — personal as well as collective — does not happen in perpetual motion.
It requires cycles.

After planning and action comes reflection.
After intensity comes rest.
After movement comes stillness.
And only from that stillness can new information be integrated,
new insight emerge,
and a course be recalibrated.

Harmony — including your own — is not achieved by speed.
It is achieved by honoring all seasons of a cycle,
and knowing when each one is required.

Honor your winter season.
Honor the tempo, the invitation and the effects of the energy present right now.

Sending Love
Daniëlle
🙏💗💫