As the first days of Spring introduce more light into your house, have you noticed that your skin isn’t looking as bright or as clear as it was before dry, unforgiving temperatures prevailed?

When temperatures dip, do you feel your smile dip right along with them? Winter can be especially tough on the delicate skin around your mouth, leaving lips rough, dry and begging for extra care. And nothing puts a damper on a good day quite like trying to grin through cracks, flakes or irritation.

After months of sitting in air conditioning mixed with more than the usual outdoor sun exposure, tanning sprays and sunscreen, your skin may feel in need of a deep cleaning and some brightening. Time to reach for an exfoliator! As longer nights and shorter days approach, exfoliation may be just what you need to help rescue your skin.

Now that the New Year is far behind us, some of our intentions for healthier living may have found themselves in the back of the closet, collecting cobwebs. Old habits are hard to shake and adopting new ones seems even more difficult. Looking for inspo? The viral TikTok trend called the 75 Hard Challenge serves up inspiration in spades by requiring the participant to follow a specific set of exercise and lifestyles rules for 75 days (or about 2-1/2 months) in a row. Its less brutal cousin, called 75 Soft Challenge, has recently caught on with its much more accessible goals and safer recommendations.

Post holidays, you may have trouble sleeping or perhaps you’re hitting a workout plateau. If it seems like you just can’t concentrate on your weights after you’ve laced up your gym shoes, there may be more involved than just a case of the winter blues. Hormones can profoundly impact your ability to shred muscle, burn fat, stay energized and maintain focus.

Shorter days, cold snaps and packed holiday calendars don’t exactly set the stage for feeling your best — physically or mentally. Between cozy cocktails, extra slices of pie, late nights and a never-ending to-do list, consistency tends to slip right along with daylight. That’s why January often arrives with a jolt of motivation: a collective reset sparked by habits that felt festive in the fall but start to feel less sustainable come winter. But what if that reset didn’t have to wait?

Now that the days are darkening sooner, temperatures are dropping and lots of chilly, stormy days lay ahead, perhaps it’s time to start making hot tea again! And what about chai? The traditional method for making tea in India (chai literally means tea in Hindi), when you think of chai, you are probably most commonly thinking of Masala Chai

With the hectic holidays behind us, you may feel like you’ve begun the year on frazzled footing. As dark days continue to reign, why not explore the healing and restorative effects of Epsom salts?

As the leaves change and the days begin to shorten, it’s time to begin stocking up on immune fortifying foods and medicines which will be within easy reach if you start to feel under the weather. And as food can also be medicine, why not start with soup?