Swansea Life
Beat those
winter blues
IF YOU’RE DREADING
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Dr Shoshana Garfi eld
THE COLD AND DARK
Other than visiting your GP, you could try seeing
MONTHS TO COME,
a psychotherapist who specialises in helping
TAMSYN JONES
women feel better about themselves.
SUGGESTS A FEW
In today’s society, many women struggle
to accept themselves for who they are.
WAYS YOU CAN TACKLE
Some women will go to great lengths to
THEM AND FEEL
change themselves and what they have. A
psychotherapist can help individuals learn to
BETTER.
love themselves again. This is a skill, which,
much like riding a bike, cannot be learned by
The days are getting shorter, and for many
reading a book.
it is now already dark when you wake up
in the morning and dark when you fi nish
Psychotherapist Shoshana Garfi eld feels
work in the afternoon. But while some of
Christmas brings many issues, whether they
us revel in such conditions, enjoying the
are money or image problems, to the fore.
cosiness of indoors or the crisp air of a
She feels that women should be aware of their
winter morning, others fi nd this time of
problems and advises them to intercept the
year depressing.
patterns. This could be over-eating, drinking or
spending. She also recommends not depriving
For those of you who fall into the second
themselves completely, however, as a build up
category, there are plenty of ways to help
of frustration could cause bigger problems.
deal with these cold, dark months. There is
a wealth of different things that might offer
“Love is a verb; it’s a doing word, so you
some cheer during the winter blues. Surely
should do something to feel the full effects
anything is worth a try. These include
of it,” she explains. She suggests some true Rosalind, a client of Dr Garfi eld, says that she
doing yoga, taking a holistic, detoxifying
pampering such as “drawing a hot bath with feels she is “being slowly reborn” and that
break or even seeing a psychotherapist
candles for yourself or even just taking the day she has “fi nally begun to access, release and
or a life coach who might give you a new
off work”. integrate more core stuff than she had in the
outlook on life.
past 30 years put together”.
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