Winter Wellness and Self-Care

I suppose I don't smoke personally but I think smoking is something people should really try and make a New Year's resolution about so that would be something to work on in the winter I think it's important for not to drink too much in the long winter nights I think you know pub life might get a bit of, although it's good for people to go to the pub and see each other, I think it's important probably not to consume too much alcohol because that is a depressant and that can feed into your mental health as well as your physical health. So those are things I would be wary of. I think sufficient sleep is easy in the winter, so that's a good one. Do I have any personal issues with health during the winter? I would say yes, probably getting enough vitamin D, getting out and about, doing as much walking as possible. I'm pretty good at staying healthy. I do yoga. I do a lot of cold showers and that kind of thing called plunging. I do Wim Hof, the breathing. So those are all things I tend to do more in the winter because I'm not actually doing other things that I do in the summer, like, you know, pruning roses or doing gardening. And I've just applied for my own little vegetable patch under Kensington and Chelsea. So I like, really love gardening. So in the winter, I do more inside. I do as much as I can, self-care. I do a lot of brushing, where you take a brush and you brush your skin, which is very good for your skin because it's probably not getting you know much sun it goes a little bit sallow so you know little things like salt scrubs really good body brushing, cold showers, breathing and just remembering that the spring's coming. Oh maybe just like one day a week I do I have a self-care evening and I do do like a mask, scrub and a mask and that kind of thing, just to kind of look after yourself, as well as looking after your family, as well as looking after people in the community, as well as volunteering like I do here. It's nice to make time for yourself as well. Yes, I think what I'd like to say to the healthcare experts is that try and promote preventative as well as curing what's already set in. So just giving people, instead of doling out the pills, when people get ill or get mental illness or something, just maybe having, and maybe they do, I haven't been to see a doctor for so long, I don't know, but not since the pandemic, but I think it's really important to kind of put out the message, these are things you can help do to help yourself through the long winter months and to promote self care and good diet, lots of sleep, no smoking, not drinking too much, really the importance of good diet, the importance of not being overweight and make it fun, make it kind of attractive, not like a duty, not shame people.