DEEP MIDWINTER: Six Vital Lessons Your Garden Can Teach You About Real Rest

In the short, dark days of winter, while the natural world instinctively surrenders to deep rest, we, instead of allowing ourselves to move in harmony with this rhythm, direct our energies outwards instead of inwards.

Seasonal living, requires us, as women, to reconnect to our cyclical nature, which can be difficult in this linear world that holds productivity in such high esteem. And to do so, we need to accept that rest is an vital nutrient, not a weakness. To remember that rest is written in our DNA.