Tips

A Month of Winter Blues Tips

You’ll find links to all the Winter Blues Tips on this page. Scan the list and click on those you want to read.

All of these tips are drawn from my two health guides, The Light Therapy Lamp Guide and Your 8-Step Plan to Stopping the Winter Blues, and the new home study course, The LightDiet: Using light to beat the cloudy day, rainy day, winter day blues.

When you’re finally sick of feeling lousy every winter and are ready to change your winters forever, the guides and The LightDiet will show you the way.

The Winter Blues Tips

Tip 1: Are you blue or SAD?

Tip 2: Wash your windows for 20% more light

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

Tip 4: Sunny or cloudy, move more outdoors

Tip 5: Work with your body clock to beat SAD

Tip 6: Depression for 2 weeks may not be SAD

Tip 7: Dawn simulators wake you up on dark mornings

Tip 8: Women are 75% of SAD sufferers

Tip 9: Use snow reflected light

Tip 10: Regular exercise beats depression

Tip 11: Exercise with a buddy. Make winter more fun

Tip 12: Eat to reduce cravings, maximize energy

Tip 13: Ask your dog to help you beat the blues

Tip 14: Take notes when you change a winter routine

Tip 15: Change a winter habit? Reward thyself!

Tip 16: Party like the Super Bowl all winter

Tip 17: Repaint with satin, not flat, to brighten your winter home

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