24/07/2025
We’ve been taught to rest in summer.
Take vacations. Slow down. Step away from work.
But if we look to nature, summer is anything but rest.
It’s bloom, buzz, burst. The world is at its most expressive. Trees are heavy with fruit. Bees are in full labour. Bodies want to move, sweat, and celebrate. Summer is not a pause — it’s a peak.
And yet, our work culture often saves its slowest season for the hottest one. We plan downtime when the sun is at its highest. We push through deadlines in January darkness. We're told to start the year with resolutions when our bones crave stillness.
It’s a mismatch.
Not just of calendars, but of biology.
In winter, everything in nature contracts.
Trees draw their energy inward. Animals hibernate. Even the light thins. Yet many of us are expected to perform as if nothing has changed — to push through the cold with the same productivity, energy, and drive as the peak of spring or summer.
Our nervous systems know better.
Our bodies slow down, even if our calendars won’t.
The dissonance can lead to exhaustion, dullness, and disconnection.
What if we allowed ourselves a different rhythm?
What if we aligned our personal energy with seasonal energy — and trusted that rest has its time, too?
Our bodies are cyclical by nature. Breath, heartbeat, digestion, sleep, hormones — all happen in waves.
So do our emotions. So does creativity. So does healing.
Seasonal living invites us to listen.
To notice the energy of the outer world — and how it resonates (or conflicts) with our inner state.
Winter is for deep rest, reflection, and dreaming.
Spring brings reawakening, planning, and possibility.
Summer is expression, action, and celebration.
Autumn invites harvesting, slowing, letting go.
There’s no “wrong” season — just wrong expectations.
We burn out when we demand from ourselves what the moment can’t offer.
This summer, don’t see rest as an escape.
See it as integration. As digestion. As a moment to feel fully alive, not away from your work, but within your body.
We were never meant to move in straight lines.
We were made to move in cycles.
In rhythms that include silence and slowness as much as they include effort and expansion.
