Gemma Speck

Rest is as important as the seasons are to earth and you're part of earth and feeling that it's really sinking into how natural it is to honor that

and to honor the system and to not disturb the system by honoring the seasons of life has really helped me, I think, in such an important way.

Basically, how I've started to think of it is that some parts of life, like I said, are summer.

There are going to be natural seasons where I grow, I expand, I am full of light and energy, I am up all the time.

There's autumn, that's like the shedding.

There's spring, that's the work.

And you have to have the winters.

You have to have periods of hibernation and rest and just preparing for the next season.

Every single cycle in your life requires a winter.

You require consolidation.

You require rest to be able to keep going.

The problem is, is that we often demand summer output.

across all seasons, especially in our winter seasons.

And I'm not actually talking about seasons here.

I'm talking metaphorically.

But, you know, we treat ourselves like a machine where the setting is going to stay the same the whole year round.

Humans simply do not work like that.

Like the cycles that the Earth operates on and that you operate on are incredibly important and designed to

make you the best version of yourself and designed to be the system that you work on.

Just because you have stuff to do doesn't mean you can override nature.