Time to embrace the energies of the spring season: growth, grounding, ease, and enjoyment. We’re talking habits for more intuition, practices for less stress, and ways to bring more intention to your time online.

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Time to Wave Byeeeee to Winter and Say Hi to Spring

Winter is a time of rest, reflection, warmth, welcoming. When spring arrives on March 20, the energy shifts to growth, grounding, ease, enjoyment. The practices and habits offered in this episode will help you embody and embrace the energy you need this season.

5 Daily Habits to Refresh Your Energy for Spring

01. Commit to connecting with your intuition daily.

Drinking coffee and journaling first thing in the morning is my favorite practice right now. To learn more about journaling with intuition, take my free workshop.
Pause, breathe, ask, “What do I need?”

02. Turn the dial to what you need.

This is an energetic practice you can try whenever you need a shift. Try it now:

Close your eyes and exhale. Imagine turning the dial down on today, slowing it to a pace that actually feels pleasurable. Or speeding things up if that’s what you need.
See yourself noticing when help arrives.
Your coworker takes the report off your plate. Your partner handles bedtime without being asked. A client reschedules, giving your calendar the breathing room you didn’t know you needed.
See yourself welcoming happy coincidences.
You find the perfect parking spot as you pull into the lot. Your barista hands you a cortado before you even order it. You bump into a friend you've been meaning to text.
See your day flow easily. (No micromanaging needed.)
Your kids play quietly while you send that last email. A friend invites you to dinner. The work trip you were stressing over? Canceled.

Now, open your eyes and jot down what this looks like for you today. Set the intention to turn the dial whenever you need a shift.

03. Make self-mothering your self-care.

Self-mothering is what it sounds like, giving yourself the motherly love and support we all deserve. Lean into what feels good, magical, and luxurious this spring. Ask your inner voice, “How can I support myself this season?”

For more ways to practice self-mothering, listen to episode 176: Self-Mothering: Daily Rituals and Practices on Apple, Spotify, or go to the show notes.

04. Spring clean your online life.

We pick up our phones countless times each day. This spring season, get grounded in your experience online and cultivate digital rituals that elevate you.

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Writing by hand has been another favorite practice to combat my chronically online habit.

To hear more about my break from ChatGPT, listen to episode 219: An Honest Convo About AI, Algorithms, Aging, and Alignment Apple, Spotify, or go to the show notes.

05. Celebrate the Spring Equinox.

Welcome spring on 3/20. Small celebration. Could be watching the replays from spring forward. Lighting a candle. Going for a walk. Treating yourself.

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Listen to Episode 223 of Celebrate Cultivate

Hello, you are listening to Celebrate Cultivate. I am your host intuition coach and voice in your earbuds, Kayleen Elise Seuss. Today we are going to have a short and sweet episode focused on the shifts you can. Have in your life the shifts you can make to shake off winter blahs and refresh your energy for spring, because these spring solstice is nearly here.
It is on March 20th. So as you're listening to this live, you've still got a little bit of time left in winter, but if you have kind of gone to target, looked around, felt inside, felt outside. There's a shift happening for sure. Spring is upon us, and maybe you're fully already in the spring season or maybe where you live.
It's still very much winter outside, but inside you are wanting that shift, so this is the time to do that. Winter's energy is very different from Spring's energy. And if you think back to the beginning of winter, that was December 21st, like where you were and what you were doing and what was on your mind, the things that were like bugging you, but also the things that were exciting to you are probably pretty different in some ways than where you are now.
The energy of winter is rest and reflection, warmth and welcoming, and the energy of spring is growth, grounding, ease, and enjoyment. So as you think about. Stepping into this spring season, one of the things I encourage all of my clients, the folks that are in my signature program, a year of view, and myself included, like looking at the energy of the season and how it can support you, how it can inspire you, how it can.
Help align you to what you really want in life. These are things that, that you can look to. I'm gonna share a few different practices and things that will. Help you embody those energies with spring or define them for yourself. Maybe this is a season where growth isn't a huge priority for you, for one reason or another.
Maybe you really wanna lean into grounding or ease feels completely out of reach. So you're gonna focus on enjoyment. The reason why I offer these four different energies is because there's going to be seasons in life where some feel more accessible and some feel. More out of reach, and that's okay. And perhaps for you, none of this works and your energy of spring is going to be redefined or revamped in some way, and that's also great.
That's okay. Sometimes even just hearing me talk through things will help you illuminate what matters most to you. Let's start with the first practice, and that is to connect to your intuition on a daily basis. This spring season. That can be all sorts of ways, all sorts of things. It can be as simple as pausing to breathe and ask your inner voice, what do I need?
It could be a journaling practice, which is my favorite way to connect to my intuition, and it is something that I have been doing on a daily basis pretty much since the start of this year. I. Didn't make a grand proclamation. It wasn't like this thing that I decided I'm gonna connect to my intuition for a hundred days or anything like that.
It was just, I have this journal that I, it's a five year journal. You can write a few lines every day. For five years and I've done one before all the way through and I have a new one that I started last year and it only has a few entries from last year. So at the start of this year, I thought I really like want to get back into the routine of that.
The first of the year is a good time to do that, but when I started my first five year journal. This was like seven years ago. I started it in the middle of August, like on a random Tuesday because it really doesn't matter when you start, when you look at like a five year project. Right. So anyways, I wanted to get back into the routine and I like writing in my journal most in the morning.
I've tried to do it at night and it just doesn't flow for me as easily. My evening routines with like putting the kids down and just the way that my energy is, the nights are way less predictable. Much fresher and have more energy in the mornings, and I like having my coffee first thing, so journaling and coffee.
Coffee is just like the perfect ritual stack for me personally. Everybody's gonna be different, but I knew I wanted to, basically what I do is I do my five-year journal. And I write about yesterday, the day before. And then I pull out my other journal, my open journal from Wild House Paper, and I do my eight minutes of intuition journaling, inner voice journaling, and that's about today.
And that is my daily intuition practice. It's a little bit for the mind and reflection because that five-year journal is just like a really nice way to connect to me and my life and the kids' lives. And you know, when, right now it's not that satisfying because I don't have a lot of entries from last year, but next year as I'm going through it, I will be able to see what happened on March 11th.
Of last year and, but it'll be this year or in the future years, I'll be able to look at like March 11th from 25 and 26 and then write my entry for 27. And that just is a really. It's a fun project. I really enjoy it. It doesn't take a lot of time, and that practice of writing in that journal, I've already got my journal, I've already got my coffee.
I can just dive right in to my inner voice journaling. And typically I set a timer for eight minutes. I walk you through this whole process in my free journal with intuition class. So if you haven't taken that yet, I'll link to it in the show notes and because you can just like walk through me in that workshop.
Or you can just set a timer for eight minutes and journal with your intuition similar to Julia Cameron's Morning Pages practice, or really anything like, it doesn't, I had a, a person ask me recently, and I think I might have shared this on the podcast, but she was like, do you ever get bored? And yeah, sometimes I do, you know, sometimes I write ridiculous things today.
Wrote in my journal, you don't wanna be journaling right now. You want to be reading your book. And normally when I get done journaling, I will open up my laptop and check my email, but I didn't, this morning, I just went straight into reading my book because that's what I wanted to do. And after connecting with my inner voice, that was like really clear to me.
So. Beginning an in daily intuition practice in the spring season really connects to that energy of growth, but the energy of grounding also, and whenever I personally connect to my intuition, there is a lot more ease and enjoyment in in my everyday life. Also. The next practice I wanna share with you is turning the dial to what you need.
This is an energetic exercise, but it can also be very practical. It is inspired by so many of those adages of motherhood and other things where it's like, be. The thermostat, not the temperature. Like you control the energy, not your kids. And over time, it has kind of morphed into this practice that I use for myself and with my clients.
And the way that you do it is just by closing your eyes and giving a gentle exhale, right? Just blowing away the thoughts, and then really seeing yourself turning a dial to what you need for. Today or what you need for the next hour. If you need more energy and enthusiasm, maybe you turn the dial up if you need things to slow down to a plate.
Place and a pace that feels pleasurable and good for you, you can turn the dial down and then as you're turning the dial to where you need, notice how you feel, see what comes up for you. And it might feel kind of silly or like, what does this. Doing. Just kind of go with it. Play with it. If you've done this before with me, you know how good it can feel to just choose what you need from yourself, but also from the universe, from the world, and then see yourself noticing help when it arrives.
Maybe a coworker takes that report that you still need to do off of your plate, or a client reschedule so that your calendar has some breathing room, which is exactly what you need. Then see yourself welcoming in happy coincidences, like finding the perfect parking spot as you pull into the lot, or bumping into a friend who you've been meaning to text.
See your day flowing in a way that supports you without you having to. Check every detail and micromanage every little thing. Your kids actually play quietly while you finish up that last email and that work trip that you've been stressing about is actually just canceled, so you don't even have to worry about it.
Now, open your eyes and just jot down, like on a Post-It or in the notes app of your phone. What this actually looks like for you today, and set the intention to turn the dial to wherever you need when you need a shift. As you play with this practice through the spring season, you will feel a lot more in control of your own energy, and you'll notice.
That when things start to feel wonky or wild, that just pausing to close your eyes and turn the dial to what you need will help you feel a little less chaotic in, in your daily life, in your work, in your mothering, in your wellness, wherever you need. Number three. There's five of these total. Actually.
Number three is making self mothering your self-care for the spring season. So winter's behind us and one of the ways that we can shake off the gunk and the yuck and the Blas of winter is by taking. Better care of ourselves now because I don't know about you, but winter's a little bit of a fluffier season for me.
I am eating more treats. I am drinking more drinks. I am wearing cozier clothes, and that hibernation feeling is is one that I'm still existing in very much through winter, even though in awesome. Where I live, it's not that cold in the winter season, and I'm actually just like wishing we would have a few more days where we could wear sweaters.
In the spring season, it really is that time to like shift into, okay, where am I in my wellness? Where am I in my emotional body? Where am I on my schedule and my calendar? All of these things. And one of the things mothers do so well, at least. You know the lovely mothers who we all are, and hopefully some of you have mothers.
Manage the calendar, mothers, make sure everybody else is taken care of. Mothers like, make sure you have what you need for your field trip and get you off to school with a hug and a kiss, right? And so when you are self mothering, it's looking at what do you need? What is going to set you up for success?
What are the things that you deserve to believe in and deserve that you can have? Like if you think about the conversations that you have with your children and the way that you look at your children or the, the kids in your lives or the way that you wish someone had looked at you and and spoken to you.
It's empowerment, it's upliftment. It's seeing the good and so often we don't give ourselves that benefit. Right, like if you think about the way you believe in your children, can you believe in yourself in that way? Self mothering. I used to talk about it as like lean into what feels good, lean into what feels magical and luxurious.
But I think even just beyond all of that, it self mothering is like really just supporting yourself, honest to goodness support. And sometimes that is a little bit of tough love. You know, like sometimes that's like, Hey girl, you can get this workout in. You're gonna be fine. Like you can do it. Just maybe don't push yourself too hard, but just do it.
Maybe sometimes self mothering is like putting yourself to bed and just calling it a day after it's been too much and starting fresh the next day. I had a day like that not too long ago where everything went wrong. It was rough. It was real rough. I sent a Marco Polo to my friend and she said back to me, I'm not sure if you're laughing or crying, I can't tell, but I hope you're okay.
And I was fine. I mean. It was a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad day and I treated myself with a little extra wine and ate as many chips as I wanted to. I did put myself to bed at a decent time and I woke up and honestly the next day was like one of the best days we've had as a family in so long, so it was really like a crazy 180 between the two days.
Was that extra glass of wine, self mothering in that circumstance? Yes, absolutely. I think it was. When I look at self-care and self mothering, I really think they are a bit different. But this spring season, if you can shift your self-care into self mothering and put that just overall intention of, I'm really going to.
I'm gonna take care of myself and the most loving, nurturing way as possible. This spring, you'll see a shift for sure. Number four is spring clean your online life. So I don't know about you, but my winter has been. Fraught with a lot of drama on my cell phone, on my internet life. There's just, you know, it's been a lot with politics and war and ice and oh my gosh, so much.
So much, so much, and I am intentionally making choices in the way that I consume media. On my phone. I got a brick, which if you don't know what a. Brick is, I will link to it in the show notes. I'll share like an affiliate link or whatever. I think it gives you a discount. It definitely gives me a little kickback, which I would love, but I don't need, so only get it if you think that you'll use it.
But a brick is this little device that you can lock yourself out of certain apps on your phone. So right now my phone is bricked from still from last. Tonight and it's 10 30 as I'm recording this. So I haven't been on Instagram on my phone. I can't Marco Polo my bestie right now, but I can still text our nanny about Neil's haircut.
I can still use the traffic maps, you know, to make sure I'm not getting stuck on the highway on my way to the coffee shop. So, you know, the, the things that I need my phone for, I have access to, but all of the extras, I'm not even gonna unb brick my phone until I've got. All the things I need to get done for today because it, if I don't like, my scrolling has just gotten so out of hand.
So one of the ways I'm spring cleaning my online life is just by keeping myself offline. Other things I'm doing is unintentionally. Intentionally muting or unfollowing accounts that don't give me information that I desire or that I need, or entertainment or education or make me feel good. I'm trying to be really intentional about having more conversations.
With real people on Instagram, 'cause that really matters to me. I'm just looking at like, how do I wanna spend my time when I'm online? And that shift for the spring cleaning, spring season just feels really, really good. Another thing that I've been doing, which I've shared about, is just like writing more by hand as opposed to typing on my computer.
I'm really not using AI right now. I'm taking a break from that as I have been for the last few months, or a year, month, year, last year or so. And that also feels really good. But you gotta look at your own online life and decide like, what are the things that I wanna sprinkle, clean, tidy up, dust off, and what am I happy with, you know?
Define that for yourself. And then finally, as we wrap up this episode, celebrate the spring equinox. Do something like Mark your calendar. It's March 20th. Do a little celebration for yourself with your kids in your work, like light a candle. Maybe watch the replays from my workshop spring forward that's happening right now.
That could be a fun way to celebrate the spring season. You can still get access to spring forward if you are interested. As I'm recording this, it hasn't happened yet, but when you're listening to it, we're already into day two, so if you wanted to sneak in for day three, you totally could. That's on Friday, March 13th.
The focus of day three is accelerate, so we're turning clarity into action. I suppose if you're listening to this like first thing in the morning on Thursday, you could actually. Hop in right now and still join us for Thursday, which is day two, but more realistically, maybe you would just sign up to get the replays.
If you do, it's 1 98 to join, and you also get an exclusive discount to my signature program, which is called A Year of View. There are three spots for a year of you opening this spring season. When you join Spring forward, you get a thousand dollars off the a year review price. So if you're interested in that, check out all the details on my website or just send me a DM at Kayle Elise and we can chat back and forth.
Like I said, there's only three spots for a year review, so if you are interested, if you are serious and you wanna join my signature year long program, we'll be opening the doors very soon. And if you're in spring forward, I hope you are loving it. I hope you are enjoying this shift out of the winter blahs and really finding your way forward for the spring season.
That is it for this episode. I appreciate you so much for listening. The podcast is honestly one of my happiest places to spend my time online right now. As you are thinking about shaking off winter and. Stepping into the spring season, maybe use one of these ideas, maybe come up with one of your own, whatever you choose.
Send me a DM at Kayleen Elise on Instagram and let's chat about what you are doing to welcome the spring season. I can't wait to hear from you.