Living in Season

What if you stopped trying to be summer all year long?

The world tells you to be consistent.

Same energy. Same productivity. Same output. Every day. Every week. Every month.

Push through when you're tired. Produce when you're empty. Bloom when it's time to rest. Grow when it's time to let go.

Never slow down. Never stop. Never rest too long.

And you've tried. You've pushed through winter with summer energy.
You've forced spring growth in fall's natural release.
You've maintained the same pace through every season of your life

Until your body said no. Until burnout. Until collapse. Until you couldn't keep performing anymore.

Consider this:

What if the problem isn't you? What if the problem is trying to live against your nature?

Nature doesn't operate on consistent productivity.
She cycles.
She ebbs and flows.
She grows and rests.
She blooms and dies back.
She follows seasons.

And you're not separate from nature. You ARE nature.

Your body, your energy, your creativity, your capacity; they're not meant to be the same all year long.

They're meant to cycle. Like the earth. Like the moon. Like every living thing.

What if you stopped resisting the seasons and started living in alignment with them?

The Seasons of Nature

Let's start with what you can see outside your window:

Spring: Emergence. New growth. Everything pushing up from the ground. Energy rising. Expansion beginning. Tender. Hopeful. Fragile but determined.

Summer: Fullness. Peak bloom. Maximum light and energy. Abundance. Productivity. Everything at its most visible, vibrant, alive.

Fall: Release. Harvest. Letting go. Energy turning inward. Preparation for rest. Completion. The necessary shedding.

Winter: Dormancy. Rest. Darkness. Nothing visible happening but deep work underground. Restoration. The long pause before new growth.

Each season has its purpose. Each season is essential.

You wouldn't judge a tree for losing its leaves in fall. You wouldn't demand that spring arrive in January. You wouldn't expect summer energy in the depth of winter.

You understand that nature needs all of it. The growth AND the rest. The bloom AND the die-back. The expansion AND the contraction.

So why do you expect yourself to be summer all the time?

The Seasons of Your Life

Just like the earth, your life moves through seasons too.

Not just the calendar seasons (though those matter, we'll get to that).
But larger seasons. Life seasons. Transformation seasons.

You've lived through:

The spring of childhood: learning, growing, absorbing everything.

The summer of early adulthood: building, producing, achieving, expanding.

Maybe you're in the fall now: reassessing, releasing, letting go of what no longer serves.

Or the winter: resting, grieving, dormant while something new forms underground.

You can't be in summer forever. Even if the world wants you to be.

Some seasons of life call for:

• Building a career

• Raising children

• Caring for aging parents

• Recovering from loss

• Rebuilding after everything fell apart

• Creating something new

• Simply being, with no grand project

Each season requires different energy. Each season deserves to be honored.

Trying to maintain summer energy in a winter season will break you.

Living the Calendar Seasons

The seasons outside matter too. They affect your body, energy, mood, capacity: whether you pay attention or not.

Here's how to work with them instead of against them:

Winter (December - February)

Energy: Low. Inward. Restful.

What Your Body Needs:

• More sleep

• Warming foods (soups, stews, roasted vegetables)

• Less social demand

• Quiet time

• Permission to move slowly

What This Season Supports:

• Reflection and planning

• Inner work and healing

• Reading, journaling, dreaming

• Rest without guilt

• Releasing what didn't work last year

What Doesn't Work:

• Trying to maintain summer energy

• Overcommitting socially

• Starting 47 new projects in January

• Expecting yourself to be "on" constantly

The Invitation: Rest is not laziness. Winter rest prepares you for spring growth. If you skip winter's rest, spring will be harder.

For be-U-tiful One: Winter is perfect for Cocoon Phase work. The darkness outside mirrors the darkness of dissolution. Let yourself be dormant. Trust the unseen work.

Spring (March - May)

Energy: Rising. Hopeful. Building.

What Your Body Needs:

• Lighter foods (greens, fresh vegetables, lighter proteins)

• Movement to wake up stagnant energy

• Fresh air and sunlight

• Gentle expansion

• Time in nature

What This Season Supports:

• New beginnings

• Fresh projects

• Learning something new

• Building momentum slowly

• Clearing out what accumulated over winter

What Doesn't Work:

• Expecting immediate results

• Pushing too hard too fast

• Demanding full bloom before it's time

• Comparing your spring to someone else's summer

The Invitation: New growth is fragile. Protect it. Don't expose tender shoots to harsh conditions. Let things unfold at their own pace.

For be-U-tiful One: Spring is Emergence energy. You're practicing. Building wings. Learning to fly. Be patient with yourself. Growth takes time.

Summer (June - August)

Energy: Peak. Expansive. Productive.

What Your Body Needs:

• Hydration

• Fresh, colorful foods

• Activity and movement

• Social connection

• Play and joy

• Time outside

What This Season Supports:

• Maximum productivity

• Visible progress

• Expansion and growth

• Community and connection

• Big projects and bold moves

• Celebration of abundance

What Doesn't Work:

• Burning out by never resting

• Trying to do ALL THE THINGS

• Forgetting that fall will come

• Using all your energy reserves

The Invitation: Bloom fully. This is your time. But remember—even in summer, rest at night. Even in summer, take breaks. Peak energy doesn't mean endless energy.

For be-U-tiful One: Summer is Wingwork and beyond. You're flying. Your transformation is visible. Use this energy, but build in sustainable practices so you don't crash when fall arrives.

Fall (September - November)

Energy: Turning inward. Winding down. Completing.

What Your Body Needs:

• Warming foods again (squash, root vegetables, apples)

• Less external demand

• Time for completion

• Space to grieve what's ending

• Preparation for rest

What This Season Supports:

• Harvest—gathering what you've built

• Completion of projects

• Letting go of what's dead or dying

• Assessment and reflection

• Releasing relationships, habits, beliefs that no longer serve

What Doesn't Work:

• Starting major new projects

• Trying to maintain summer's pace

• Resisting the natural winding down

• Clinging to what needs to be released

The Invitation: Let the leaves fall. You can't hold onto everything. Release makes space for new growth in spring. Trust the letting go.

For be-U-tiful One: Fall is integration time. What did you learn? What are you keeping? What needs to be released? Honor completions. Make space for the winter rest that's coming.

Your Personal Seasons

Beyond the earth's seasons and your life's seasons, you have personal rhythms:

Monthly cycles (if you menstruate):

• Follicular phase = Spring (rising energy, outward focus)

• Ovulation = Summer (peak energy, social, creative)

• Luteal phase = Fall (turning inward, need for completion)

• Menstrual phase = Winter (rest, reflection, lowest energy)

Weekly rhythms: Maybe Mondays are your spring; fresh start, planning. By Friday you're in fall; winding down, completing. The weekend is your winter; rest.

Daily rhythms: Morning might be your spring - rising energy. Afternoon your summer - peak productivity. Evening your fall - winding down. Night your winter - rest and restoration.

The more you attune to your natural rhythms, the less you fight yourself.

Transitions Between Seasons

The hardest part isn't the seasons themselves. It's the transitions.

From winter to spring - when you're ready to emerge but it's slow, awkward, uncertain.

From spring to summer - when growth accelerates and you're not sure you're ready for visibility.

From summer to fall - when you have to start letting go and it feels like failure.

From fall to winter - when everything stops and you're afraid you'll be stuck there forever.

Transitions are uncomfortable because you're between. Not here, not there. In the liminal space.

be-U-tiful One's phases honor these transitions:

• Cocoon to Emergence = Winter to Spring transition

• Emergence to Wingwork = Spring to Summer transition

• Wingwork to Becoming Her = Summer to the full cycle

Each transition requires patience, trust, and the willingness to be uncomfortable while something shifts.

You can't rush a season change. You can only honor it.

Practical Ways to Live in Season

1. Track Your Energy

Notice when you have high energy, when you need rest, when you're most creative, when you're most social.

Stop fighting your natural rhythms. Start working with them.

2. Adjust Your Expectations

Don't expect winter you to have summer energy.

Don't expect spring you to have summer results.

Adjust what you expect from yourself based on what season you're actually in.

3. Eat Seasonally

Your body needs different things in different seasons. Listen to her.

Winter: warming, grounding, nourishing
Spring: light, fresh, cleansing
Summer: cooling, hydrating, abundant
Fall: hearty, settling, stabilizing

4. Move Seasonally

Winter: gentle, restorative, slow
Spring: awakening, flowing, moderate
Summer: active, expansive, vigorous
Fall: grounding, releasing, moderate

5. Plan Seasonally

Big launches? Summer or early fall.
New beginnings? Spring.
Deep work and healing? Winter.
Completion and harvest? Fall.

Stop fighting the seasons with your plans.

6. Rest Seasonally

You need more rest in winter. Less in summer (but still some).

Honor this instead of maintaining the same pace year-round.

7. Release Seasonally

Fall is for letting go. Don't wait until you're forced.

Regularly release what's no longer serving you; relationships, habits, beliefs, commitments.

The Invitation

Start paying attention.

What season is the earth in right now?

What season is your life in?

What season is your energy in?

Are they aligned? Or are you trying to be in a different season than you're actually in?

This week, notice:

• Where you're fighting your natural rhythm

• Where you're demanding summer energy in a winter season

• Where you're resisting the transition that's trying to happen

Then ask: What if I honored the season I'm actually in?

What would change?

Go Deeper

Living in alignment with seasons is fundamental to be-U-tiful One's approach.

In The Cocoon Phase, you learn to honor winter - the darkness, the dissolution, the rest.

In Emergence Sessions, you practice spring - the patient unfolding, the gentle building.

In The Wingwork, you navigate all seasons - knowing when to push, when to rest, when to let go.

In Becoming Her, you embody seasonal wisdom - living in rhythm instead of resistance.

Explore the be-U-tiful One journey

You are not a machine that should operate the same way year-round.

You are nature. You are seasonal. You are cyclical.

And there is so much freedom in remembering that.

Stop trying to be summer all year long.

Honor winter's rest. Trust spring's slow emergence. Celebrate summer's bloom. Release in fall's letting go.

The seasons know what they're doing.

So do you; when you stop fighting them.

With you in the becoming,

Dawn

be-U-tiful One
Beauty not as approval, but as truth.