26/01/2026
It’s Monday morning and it’s still January - officially the longest month of the year. Things feel grey, dark, cold and heavy. What’s to be done?
If your mood right now is an overriding low one, where things feel bleak and the year is less than jolly, here are some ideas that I find do truly work to help boost your mood. They help to shift your perspective and offer a little rest-bite, guiding you forward towards brighter days:
1. Get outside, even if for 5 minutes, even in the rain. Look at the sky, stare at something intriguing, get curious about your surroundings, breathe the air.
2. Purposefully stop to notice the truth of how you do feel before auto pilot sets in and carry’s you away into pretence.
3. Feel into your breathing, count how long it takes you to breath in and how long it takes to breath out. Increase that count by 1. Slowing the breath a little and feeling how your body shape shifts to welcome the air in and push the air out.
4. Find a pen and paper and write something down or doodle. Allow 5 mins to simply let the pen speak to the paper, showing you a deeper sense of how things are for you in this moment.
5. If you still feel lost or at sea do seek some professional help. You’re not meant to be overwhelmed, stuck, trapped or drowning. You’re designed to be more flexible than that, able to stretch into the joy as easily as sink into the sorrow.
I’m here should you want to touch in. Should you choose to embark on a new way of being, a new way to open your heart to the world, a new way to approach this brand new year, even on a grey January Monday morning….
All you need to do is ask.
Lucy
(See my website, link in bio, or email Hello@embarkcounselling.co.uk)
