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With fewer daylight hours and, typically, less social interaction, winter can be challenging on mental health — but we don’t have to suffer through it, a Cortes Island therapist says.

Registered clinical counsellor Kira MacDuffee has a practice, Opening Works, in Mansons Landing. MacDuffee said that the long winter months are comparable to COVID-19 lockdown periods: all that alone time can be confronting but is, simultaneously, a huge opportunity for healing and transformation, she said.