Warming Your Heart

Warming Your Heart

Not only is keeping your body warm important, but it is also just as vital to keep your heart warm. Here are some suggestions and events that’ll light that stove in your heart.

Ways to Warm Your Heart for the Holidays

• Decorate your house for the festive month – Nothing like getting fresh flowers to illuminate your house/room or seasonal decoration and scented candles. Here are some fantastic ideas for easy home decorations for this holiday season.

• Treating yourself – Go shopping for yourself, go to a library, go on a coffee date with yourself or walk around the park. Take some time out for yourself, you deserve it! Here is a list of companies and stores still offering discounts for healthcare workers.

• Making a meal or baking together – There are many heart healthy (and heart-themed) recipes that are good for you—and good tasting! Find the savory foods here, and festive bakes here.

• Outdoor activities – Taking part in outdoor winter activities like building a snowman or planning a road trip to visit relatives in another province. Find some suggestions here.

• Volunteering – Volunteer at a homeless shelter or soup kitchen or handing out coffee and sandwiches to those who might not have anyone or anything to warm their hearts or stomachs. Here are some suggestions from our November Issue.

  • Cradles to Crayons Boston

  • Greater Boston Food Bank

  • Boston Rescue Mission

  • More Than Words

  • Friday Night Supper

• Music – Listen to your favorite album when you are resting. It’s the perfect way to unwind.

• Go ice skating – Head to your local outdoor ice skating rink. After that, warm up with a cup of hot chocolate!

• Build a gingerbread house – Whether you make it from scratch or use a gingerbread house kit, it is a great bonding activity that gets you into the festive mood. Click here for a recipe, and here for other ideas.

• Admire the holiday lights – Get in the car and take a drive around the neighborhood or city to enjoy the holiday lights.

• Make an ugly Christmas sweater – Although you can easily find an ugly Christmas sweater in stores, it is so much more fun to make one yourself! For ideas, check this out!