Stop Pretending Winter Is Out to Get You

RACHEL LAFORCE
2 days ago
2 min read

There’s a weird moment every year where people look at November like it’s the seasonal Grim Reaper. The clocks change, the leaves die, and suddenly everyone acts like winter is some sort of cosmic punishment for not having their life together.

But winter isn’t here to ruin your life. Winter is here to make you potent.

This is your season to review, refine, and root down into your next level.

Hibernate Like You Mean It

Hibernation isn’t laziness, it’s a requirement for alignment.

Winter invites you to slow your roll long enough to ask the questions most people avoid:

What do I really want?
Where am I actually going?
What is the goal beyond aesthetics and busywork?
What do I really want?
Where am I actually going?
What is the goal beyond aesthetics and busywork?

If you can’t answer those questions, you’re not failing, you’re just not listening.

March Is Coming and She’s Bringing Receipts

Bold claim. March 2026 is the moment where your physical world shifts. Your behavior, your career, how you talk about yourself…it all gets upgraded, but only if you’ve done the winter review.

Translation: This is your pre-season training. Don’t skip it.

Stop Outsourcing Your Knowing

Can you just enjoy respite and not people being up your butt crack instead of running to oracle cards looking for the next answer?

You already know what to do. But clarity requires quiet. And quiet requires you to stop using busyness as a trauma response.

What you are doing daily is the fastest way to get where you want to be. It’s just deciding.

Most people want confidence before commitment. But the universe doesn’t negotiate with half-energy.

Catching the Wave

You’re not waiting for momentum. Momentum is waiting for you to stay present long enough to catch it.

If you remain locked-in, intentional, and honest about where you’re heading, that wave will not miss you. But you must be awake enough to paddle.

Journal Prompts (Expanded, reflective)

Where in my life am I mistaking distraction for clarity?
What goals feel like they’re genuinely mine—and which ones are borrowed from culture, family, or fear?
What would it mean for me to “hibernate with intention” this winter? What needs to slow down? What needs to be nurtured?
Where have I already built momentum that I haven’t taken time to acknowledge? How would it feel to actually celebrate that?

If a massive wave of change hit my life tomorrow, what part of me is ready—and what part of me is terrified?

As always, tune out, tune in. Love you, mean it.

Rachel

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