10 Ways to Welcome More Joy This Spring
Gentle ways to reconnect with yourself, embrace the season, and find joy in the little things.
Spring is a season of lightness, colour, and a quiet invitation to come back to life. If you’ve been in a season of stress, depletion, or just going through the motions, this is your permission slip to invite more joy into your everyday. Not in grand, performative ways, but through small, intentional acts that fill you up from the inside out.
Here are 10 ways to welcome more joy this spring—simple, soulful shifts that can lift your mood, lower your stress, and reconnect you to what really matters.
1. Make a Spring/Summer Bucket List
They say anticipation is half the joy. Write a list of things you're excited to do this season—big or small. Picnics, patio dinners, wildflower hikes, beach days, evening bike rides, rooftop drinks, outdoor movies. Let yourself look forward to something.
2. Plan a Date with Yourself
Pick a day. Block it in your calendar. Dress for it. Impress yourself. Whether it’s a solo hike, a long lunch with a book, a gallery afternoon, or a spa treatment—give yourself the kind of attention you usually reserve for others.
3. Schedule Sacred "Me Time" Each Week
Choose one hour a week that is completely yours. No negotiations. Let your people know it’s your time. Read, nap, sit in silence, create—whatever your spirit needs. It doesn’t need to be productive to be powerful.
4. Spend Time in Nature
Science confirms what our hearts already know: nature heals. Aim to immerse yourself in nature at least once a week. Walk barefoot in grass, sit by water, hike in the woods, watch the sunset. Let the seasons recalibrate you.
5. Cook or Bake Something You Love
Spend the day preparing your favourite meal or baking something special—alone or with someone you love. Shop the farmers market. Set the table. Use the good dishes. Let the act of nourishing become a ritual of presence.
6. Reconnect with Someone You Miss
Call, visit, or plan something with someone you’ve been thinking about. Sometimes we delay connection because life is busy, but love—especially the kind that spans time and space—is worth prioritizing.
7. Do That One Thing You’ve Been Putting Off
We all have one: that task that’s been on the backburner forever. Book the appointment. Fix the thing. Cancel the subscription. Clear the clutter. You’ll feel so much lighter once it’s done.
8. Reignite a Creative Hobby
Joy often lives where we make things with our hands or hearts. Paint, play music, write, knit, garden, dance—whatever brings you into a flow state. Sign up for a class or carve out time to do it just for you.
9. Buy Back an Hour of Your Time
Delegate something—just one thing. Hire a cleaner, get groceries delivered, ask for help, trade favours. Free up one hour a week and use that time for something that lights you up. Rest counts, too.
10. Be a Tourist in Your Own City
Wander new neighbourhoods. Try a restaurant you’ve never been to. Visit a local landmark. Hike a new path. Curiosity is its own kind of joy, and wonder is often closer to home than we think.
Joy doesn’t have to be loud, expensive, or extravagant. Sometimes it’s a quiet morning, a solo stroll, a fresh meal, or a familiar laugh. This spring, choose to notice it. Choose to create it. Choose to receive it.
Let me know what’s going on your list.