Spring is the season of freshness and renewal! Flowers are starting to bloom, our daylight is getting longer, the weather is getting warmer, and spring cleaning is on our minds.

It’s about clearing out the clutter–both physically and mentally. For our health, the spring season reminds us of the beauty and power of detoxing the body. After a long and stagnant winter, our bodies crave the cleanse that comes with prioritizing spring produce, more movement, sweating, and spending more time in sunlight.

Recap of Seasonal Living

In previous posts, I wrote about seasonal living and embracing autumn and winter in your life. To recap seasonal living: it is a way of living in rhythm with nature and its seasons by eating seasonal produce, participating in seasonal holidays, and looking deeper into what the lessons of each season can teach you or remind you about yourself. Instead of fighting the seasons as they come and go, it’s about finding ways to welcome them.

Spring Intentions

Seasons serve as great reminders that life moves in cycles. Spring is known as “the season of hope” because of its emphasis on renewal after the challenges winter can bring. Following the cold seasons and their opportunities for us to slow down and make “behind the scenes” plans, spring is about taking action. The dreaming and planning you did in winter is the foundation of what you will follow through on in spring!

With warmer weather and longer days ahead, it makes us feel more optimistic in our day-to-day lives. Use that energy and dive into new interests, health goals, rituals or routines, new recipes, and expand your mindset. Use spring as the opportunity to click the reset button! It’s always the perfect time to prioritize your health, your passions, and your goals. Stay present and joyful for spring’s natural beauty and its reminder that even nature begins again every year.

Ways to Welcome Spring

Get outside

More time outside will boost your vitamin D and your mood. Getting sunlight first thing in the morning will help your circadian rhythm (your body’s 24-hour cycle).

Grounding/Earthing

Earthing/grounding is where you place your bare feet on the surface of the earth. Since we are positively charged and the surface is negative, we are able to find equilibrium or balance. Check out my previous blog post on earthing and grounding to learn all the benefits!

Refreshing Your Home and Mind

Spring cleaning is more than just dusting in hard-to-reach places that you put off for the majority of the year, it’s about creating space for new energy. Donating clothing or household items not only helps declutter your space, but it also helps declutter the mind.
Invite the freshness of spring inside your home by opening up the windows and adding some fresh flowers and greenery!

Try a new spring-focused recipe

Since spring is all about lighter foods, try out my quinoa salad recipe!

Revive or add to your morning or evening routine

Not loving your routine or wanting to start one? With the changes of each season, it offers the perfect time to dive into some resets. Match the fresh energy of spring by adding in clean skincare products, lymphatic drainage massages through gua sha or dry brushing to help detox, reducing screen time in the morning/evening, a consistent workout schedule, and _______. You fill in the blank! Adopt a wellness ritual or habit that aligns most with you.

Get sweating!

Sweating is our body's natural way of detoxing. Winter months can mean more time indoors, and therefore less sweating. Get outside as the weather warms up and choose to do more exercises outdoors.

Detoxification

Drink herbal teas that support digestion and detoxification, such as dandelion root or nettle tea. Show your liver some love with routine castor oil packs, limiting alcohol, swapping out toxic cleaning products or air fresheners, and cutting down on processed foods.

How to Support the Liver

Maintain a healthy diet

Prioritize whole foods! Foods high in antioxidants have been known to support liver function such as berries, fatty fish, avocado, leafy greens, olive oil, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts.

Limit alcohol consumption

Excessive alcohol can damage liver cells and lead to chronic disease.

Removing toxins

Although some environmental toxin exposure can be uncontrollable, we are able to limit our exposure. Conventional and common cleaning products, air fresheners, and fragrances in perfumes all contain toxic chemicals that cause stress on the liver.

Adding a castor oil pack to your nighttime routine

In traditional medicine, castor oil has been used to help support the liver by improving detoxification, and hormone balance, and reducing inflammation.

Spring Produce

Que the farmer’s markets back in session! The benefits of seasonal eating (eating specific foods that are grown during specific seasons) include richer flavors, and more nutrients, it supports a healthier planet, and seasonal produce have beneficial nutrients that are tailored for each season.

Spring produce, for example, holds properties that support detoxing and replenishing after cold and dark winter months. While winter focuses on more hearty and savory foods, spring introduces lighter, crisper, and brighter foods.

Here are some spring fruits and vegetables that will help your body naturally detox and replenish:

Fruits:

Strawberries
Avocados
Lemons and limes
Pineapples
Apricots
Kiwis
Grapefruit
Cherries
Mango

Vegetables:

Collard greens
Kale
Spinach
Peas
Carrots
Onions
Artichokes
Mushrooms
Asparagus
Leeks
Broccoli
Radishes
Rhubarb

For a more detailed and individualized seasonal produce guide for your area, here is a website that allows you to enter the U.S. state you live in and the time of the month you are curious about!

Spring into this season with curiosity and gratitude! Marvel in the natural colors of spring and take a few moments to appreciate the budding blossoms or the blossoming tulips. Allow yourself to feel excited over the possibilities of fresh opportunities and ways to bloom in your health!

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Seasonal Living: Spring Bloom

Recap of Seasonal Living

Spring Intentions