This month brings the winter solstice back to our snug little Gulf Coast community, so get your sweaters out even though they will not likely be needed. December 2020 is here and so, too, another jam-packed installment of Natural Awakenings Tampa Bay. This magazine continues to inspire me with its monthly servings of holistic insight and empowering news from leaders in the natural health movement…and this month’s issue is particularly exciting.

Our Healing Ways Department this month takes an imaginative and highly informative look at the many-faceted benefits of singing (beyond the fact that it feels so good). In “Sing to Heal” (page 30), author and writer Marlaina Donato points out the therapeutic and healing advantages of singing and some of the many ways it uplifts body, mind and spirit.

On another note, for most of us, this year has been challenging. As we approach the many holiday traditions unfolding this month, habitual routines may need some thoughtful tinkering to maximize positivity and the potential and spirit of the season. With “Reinvent the Holidays: More Meaning and Less Stuff” (page 32), Denver-based health writer Ronica O’Hara offers timely advice geared especially toward children and their expectations, now and for the future.

Carry on with the energy of Love; and as always, with an open heart and mind, enjoy reading on.