Somehow, it is still January. Here are my nine wellness-free survival tips | Emma Beddington
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Buy a bargain panettone and a month’s supply of chocolates – and consider developing a historical ailment such as bilious humour. It will all be over soon. I don’t want to alarm anyone on this, the 95th day of January, but I have just realised that there are still almost two weeks before February starts. I don’t know about you, but the January 2025 time loop has broken me: my blood has become toxic ectoplasm and my bones are jelly worms. I don’t so much live the 43 minutes of daylight we get in North Yorkshire as sullenly, listlessly exist through them. This morning, putting on leggings to go to the gym defeated me, so I just lay on the bathroom floor instead.
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This is not our first January rodeo – we have survived before; we will survive again. Last year, some idiot even tried to claim January was “sort of great” (yes, that idiot was me). But the coping strategies I have found online all seem rather worthy, rather preachy, rather “hello birds, hello sky”. So to expiate for last year’s idiocy, I have devised some better survival tips, none of which involve “spending time in nature”, “gentle stretching” or “nourishing soup”.
That’s a January panettone, keep up. Nothing perks up the seasonally depressed hunter-gatherer like bargain high-end foods, so scour retailers for the last dregs of enriched Christmas breads. What’s nice about panettone is how pillowy soft it is – you can rest your head on one and nibble it at the same time. If you’re feeling the post-Christmas, pre-tax pinch, I reckon some people online might pay to watch that; just a thought.
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