{"id":958,"date":"2010-03-09T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/does-happy-spring-mean-sad-winter.html"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:57:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T15:57:07","slug":"does-happy-spring-mean-sad-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2010\/03\/does-happy-spring-mean-sad-winter.html","title":{"rendered":"Does Happy Spring Mean SAD Winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"flowers.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/flowers.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"84\" width=\"112\" \/><\/span>It&#8217;s not officially spring yet, but it sure does feel like it.&nbsp; Sunshine, temperatures above 45 degrees, and bulbs peeking out of the no-longer-frozen ground all have me feeling fabulous, alive, and like the air suddenly has more oxygen in it.<\/p>\n<p>This spurt of joyous energy has me wondering about SAD (seasonal affective disorder, that thing that makes us feel blue in wintertime&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beyondblue\/2009\/10\/recognizing-sad.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here for how to recognize SAD<\/a>).&nbsp; I didn&#8217;t think I had a particularly SAD winter&#8211;I haven&#8217;t been felled by constant colds or flu, I kept up my exercise routine, and I ate a fairly nutritious diet even in the season of comfort food.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>But this week, I feel so wonderful, that by comparison the winter seems like a bleak, gray blur.&nbsp; So here&#8217;s my question &#8211; does a happy spring mean you had a SAD winter?&nbsp; Or is spring joy something that finds us all, no matter how well we stayed warm when the snow was falling?<\/p>\n<p><span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;color: black;font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'\"><strong>Like what you see? <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=FreshLiving&amp;amp;loc=en_US\"><font color=\"#023d89\"><strong>Click here to subscribe<\/strong><\/font><\/a><strong> and get Fresh Living in your in-box every day.<\/strong><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does a happy spring mean you had a SAD winter? 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