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Winter Blues Tip 5: Work with your body clock to beat SAD

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Are you a lark or an owl? Are you a morning person or night person? Your body clock determines whether you’re one or the other. If you’ve ever tried to be an owl when you’re a lark, you know how whacked out you feel when you don’t listen to your natural rhythm. You can’t catch [...]

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Winter Blues Tip 3: Light therapy and Vitamin D don’t mix

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Every day a variety of internet searches find this site asking if light therapy lamps and light boxes produce Vitamin D.  Short answer: No. You don’t want to get Vitamin D from a light box There are two key parts of the winter blues puzzles tangled together here – light therapy and Vitamin D production. [...]

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20 Minutes to Winter Wellness

Helping moms beat the winter blues I’d like to introduce you to Lisa Byrne, an enterprising and inspiring woman who has created an online haven for busy moms who want to take care of themselves. Lisa, who is a busy mom of three little ones herself, offers classes and workshops through her blog the Well [...]

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10 Reasons the Winter Blues Will Get You

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If you’re feeling lousy since the long, dark  fall and winter days rolled in, you may be asking, “Why do I feel so bad?” or  “What’s wrong with me?” Having just experienced the winter solstice with a beautiful lunar eclipse,  this is the perfect opportunity to reframe the rest of the season. Most of what [...]

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Sunlight: A New Approach to Light Therapy

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This is a guest post by Lisa Gabel, an honors graduate from Massey University in New Zealand. Lisa contacted me a few months ago to ask if I would review her product design, partly inspired by my article “Most of Us Are All Light Deprived.” Bring the light inside The Sunlight project began with a [...]

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Get your insurance company to buy your light box

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You’ve done your homework, have read about seasonal depression and have downloaded the Light Therapy Light Guide to shop for the best one for your needs. Paperwork, paperwork If you’re considering buying a light box you may be able to get reimbursed for the cost from your insurance company. But just like anything to do [...]

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Take steps to beat the winter blues

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It’s early October and folks are feeling the first touches of the winter blues. The days are shorter, cloudier and besides the cold in the air, you might feel a bit of panic setting in as you think about how difficult winter can be. Winter doesn’t have to be so hard I’m putting the final [...]

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Why you feel blue when the sun shines

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Many of us are sunflowers: We need lots of sunshine to thrive, grow tall and blossom. A few of us are more like the trillium you find on the forest floor, a shade-loving, spring-blooming perennial woodland wildflower. Most of are probably more like shamrocks, which are happiest in bright, but not direct sunlight. One chance [...]

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Desperately seeking summer

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“Is light therapy good for summer depression?” “I’m sad when it’s cloudy.” “Why am I sad in warm weather?” I am touched by the Google searches finding my posts about warm weather blues and Summer SAD. If you’re feeling consistently blue during the summer, it may be Summer SAD, or it may not. While less [...]

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Winter Solstice|Winter Survival Light

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You may notice that today is the winter solstice, the official start of winter in the northern hemisphere. The winter solstice held ritual significance for ancient cultures, marking one of the turning points of the solar year – the shortest day and the longest night. From here, almost imperceptibly, the days get longer and the [...]

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White, Blue, Green? Which light is best?

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This is the sixth article in the Bright Light series. If you’re confused about the differences between bright white light therapy, blue LED light and low-intensity green light therapy, you’re in the right place. Give me a minute. Lots of research into light therapy That’s good news. Researchers are learning more all the time about [...]

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6 tips for determining the light box you need

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This is the fifth article in the Bright Light series. If you’ve searched online for light therapy lamps or light boxes, you’re likely confused by the variety of products. Overwhelming. In this post I’ll walk you out of the maze with my criteria for selecting a light box. When you’re ready to select a light [...]

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Your Early Morning Energy Trigger

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This is the fourth article in the Bright Light series. There’s good news and there’s bad news. Our brains have a window of time in the morning during which they are particularly sensitive to bright light stimulus. The good news is that you can get your bright light early and be on your way. Most [...]

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Why You Need a Daily Hit of Bright Light

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This is the third article in the Bright Light series. So light therapy is sounding more and more like something you’d like to try. Of course, you have more questions. If light therapy is going to work for you, here’s the key and I can’t stress this point enough: You need your daily hit of [...]

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Most of Us Are Light Deprived

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This is the second article in the Bright Light series. Most of us live most of our lives indoors. That means most of us, even in sunnier climates, are “light deprived.” Since I learned I have seasonal affective disorder, I fantasize about living in a more temperate, sunny place like San Diego. Get this: Even [...]

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Cloudy With a Chance of Depression

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This is the first article in the Bright Light series. You know what if feels like, even if you don’t know the medical name for it. The clouds roll in to stay about the beginning of September or October, depending where you live, and your energy curls up in a corner and refuses to come [...]

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