Welcoming Spring: From Winter’s Stillness to Renewal

West Coast National Park

🌻Hello Beautiful Souls🌻

Spring has arrived, and with it comes a new energy. A couple of weeks ago, I took a trip to the West Coast National Park to see the wildflowers in bloom, and the experience was breathtaking (I added a couple of pictures). The air felt lighter, the days a little longer, and I couldn’t help but notice how the season mirrored what was happening inside me. The air feels lighter, the days stretch a little longer, and there’s a quiet invitation to step outside, breathe deeper, and move more freely. It’s as if the earth itself is reminding us that even after long stretches of stillness and heaviness, renewal always comes.

But before spring, there was winter.

Winter carries a different rhythm. It’s the season of stillness, of shorter days and colder nights. We wrap ourselves in heavy layers, seek the comfort of warm blankets, and often retreat indoors. Nature seems to pause, conserving its energy in the quiet and the dark. And in many ways, winter calls us to do the same. It asks us to slow down, to reflect, to sit with ourselves when the distractions of sunshine and long days no longer pull us outward.

This past winter, I felt that deeply. The season felt heavy — not only in the physical sense of rain and cold, but within me too. I was moving through an inner shift, questioning parts of myself, shedding old identities, and facing truths I had avoided. At times, it felt suffocating, like I was being held still in a place I didn’t always want to be. But I’ve come to see that winter’s stillness serves a purpose: it creates space for deep reflection, for inner work, for the kind of growth that can only happen in the quiet.

And then, like a breath of fresh air, spring arrives.

West Coast National Park

Spring is movement after stagnation, light after heaviness, renewal after reflection. It is nature’s reminder that no season lasts forever. As the flowers bloom and the air warms, I notice a similar energy within myself — a desire to step outside, to leave behind the heavy layers, and to move forward with lightness. It’s as if the work of winter prepared me for this moment, and now I am invited to grow, to stretch, to begin again.

And soon enough, summer will follow — the season of celebration, joy, and expansion. Where winter asked us to go inward and spring invites us to emerge, summer encourages us to fully shine in the fullness of who we are.

The seasons mirror the cycles within us. Sometimes we are called inward into stillness and reflection. Sometimes we are asked to stretch into renewal. And sometimes, we are free to celebrate the fullness of our becoming.

So I wonder: what has winter meant for you? What have you been working through, shedding, or reflecting on? And if you’re reading this from another part of the world where the seasons are different, how do the cycles of nature mirror your own? What does winter represent to you? And how does spring — whether literal or symbolic — show up in your growth?

Because no matter where we are in the world, the seasons remind us that nothing stays the same forever. Renewal always follows stillness.

West Coast National Park

Take a breath of the new season, let the sunlight touch your skin, and allow spring to remind you that growth is always possible.

Love always,

Nicole