My Top 5 Tips for Warding off the January Blues

Well Christmas is over and what a lovely time we all had! but now we start to get on with life.

A lot of people suffer from the January blues and it can really drag you down. Here are my top 5 tips for warding off the blues.

1. Get back into normal routine as soon as possible
2. Make a list of jobs or tasks that you would like to complete and work your way through - by completing tasks we release more of our endorphins (happy chemicals!) in our brains.
3. As soon as you wake up, put on the lights, open the curtains and get out of bed and on with life - this will help reduce the natural 'sleepy' chemical our brains release in the dark to make us sleep at night.
4. Get out of the house - meet friends, go for a walk
5. Start an exercise routine - exercise again releases natural endorphins and makes us feel good.

                                                              Happy New Year!!!

                                                                    Karen Taylor