everything i'm obsessing over going into spring

feeling very inspired and colourful these days

Spring is my absolute favourite season. To me, it serves as a trophy for surviving the long, harsh, violent winter which every year I am convinced will take me out. Around mid-march when I start to be woken up by birdsong and no longer need to close my bedroom curtains at 6pm, I am suddenly snapped back into myself.

Spring, thus far, has felt very like transformation. Much like the flowers and the baby lambs, I’m coming into a brighter and rebirthed version of myself. The starkness of the winter launches me forcefully into this period of freedom, transformation, and inspiration.

So, in the spirit of Spring and rebirth, here are some of the things which have helped and inspired me to blossom these past few weeks.

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If you’re following me on Substack (which, please do if you’re not!) you’ll be acutley aware of how much I’ve posted about Lena Dunham this past week. I first watched Girls at the beginning of 2024, and to put it lightly, it changed my life. I had never seen a piece of art of real and raw and releatable to me and my life. Despite Hannah and the girls being in a totally different situation than I am, all of their emotions, choices, and expectations felt like they’d been stolen from my brain and made into a HBO show.

So, when I found out that writer and creator Lena Dunham was releasing a memoir, I was literally counting down the days until it was in my hands. I picked the book up on Wednesday, a signed copy from my local bookstore, and haven’t been able to put it down since. Though, I’ve actually been making an effort to read at a slower pace than usual because I want to ensure that every single coveted piece of wisdom and advice is going directly into my prefrontal cortex.

Despite being an avid gymgoer for most of my teen years, I must admit that I’ve majorly fallen out of the routine in the past year. However, my local gym, which I usually force myself to go to twice a month, recently refurbished and opened a women’s only workout section, so naturally, I crawled my way back. Having a space to workout without the fear of perception and judgement from sleezy men has been my motivator to head back to the gym. I’ve been going about three-four times a weel recently and I feel amazing for it. After a pretty encompassing bout of health anxiety since the new year, being able to go and run 5k and lift heavy weights is an absolute blessing in being able to feel like I can trust my body again.

Having a third-space to go to which has no expectations and where I leave feeling significantly better than when I arrived is endlessly beneficial to me, plus, I just love wearing cute active wear.

COLOUR! I don’t usually lean towards colour when I’m getting dressed in the morning, but right now there is nothing I want to do more. I can’t stop buying anything in pink, turquoise blue, or butter yellow specifically. Those colours just scream spring to me and I want to embody them as much as I can. If I dress like spring, I’m hoping it’ll push away the final of the grey days and manifest the sunny, 16 degrees weather which I know and love. I’ve curated loads of pieces the past few months that I just cannot wait to wear spring into summer. The goal is to look like a walking talking manifestation of spring and joy and luck.

As per my posts which have gone semi-viral this weekend, I cannot stop listening to and thinking about Olivia Rodrigo. I saw her in Copenhagen a couple years ago and I genuinley sobbed throughout the whole performance. I felt encompassed in pride for this complete stranger. Something about watching a girl only a year older than me achiveing her dreams and doing so with such grace and poise was so moving and inspirational to me.

She dropped her new single, Drop Dead, on Friday and I genuinely haven’t listened to anything else since. She said on Zane Lowe that she wanted the song to feel like running and that feeling when you close your door behing you after a first kiss, and she’s captured that exactly. Every time I hear it I feel like genuinely running a mile. It makes me feel so light and excited.

The music video, directed by Petra Collins, features her running about Versailles in a Chloé dress with a walkman on, so basically my dream, and it hasn’t left my mind. Olivia encaspulates girlhood so perfectly for me and I literally cannot wait for the album. Olivia Rodrigo summer is coming.