Nov 3, 2026 · 25 min · 9 segments
In today's episode, Kylah is sharing an activity she created to optimize the increased hours of darkness over the next few months. If you want to bring intention and presence into this season, give…
If you are in America, you know that daylight savings started two days ago, at least at the time I'm recording this, it started two days ago.
And for us, that's always a pretty rough time of year.
And by us, I mean the entire population of America, because suddenly the sun goes down at the most ungodly hour right here where we are in Southern California.
It's going down at 4.55 p.m. right now, which is...
And it's so strange.
Last night I was in my kitchen and I got ready for bed.
I took a bath.
I'm like in my PJs.
I'm like, okay, I really got to wind down, you know, and go to sleep.
It's getting late, you know, because it's dark outside.
And when it's dark outside, it just kind of tells your brain, oh, it's nighttime.
And then I look at the clock and it was 5.47 p.m. And normally at 5.47 p.m., you know, in the summertime, I'd still be working.
It's so disorienting for it to be so dark so early.
And I think when this happens, because we have about four months of this where the sun goes down at quite a crazy hour, and I think it's really easy to let the disorientation of this really impact our routines and really impact the way that we choose to spend our free time and just the way that we live our life for these couple months.
And we were...
Going for a drive Monday evening and suddenly, because I was thinking about it, I was like, oh, okay, I really, I don't want to go home now and just sit down and, you know, put on the TV for what can turn into really like three, four hours.
We don't have a TV in our house, but, you know, put it on our computer.
whatever.
And it can easily, because, you know, you don't want to go to bed at 7 PM and then suddenly you've watched, you know, a show for three hours.
You're like, what the heck am I doing? I was like, I really don't want that to be what suddenly becomes of our routine for the next few months.
And not only that, not only do I not want to waste time, all of the free time that I have in the evening because if the sun went down at 7.30 p.m. like it was in the summer, all the way up until 7.38, we are outside, we're surfing, we're going for a walk, we're doing things with friends.
Like it's a very productive time because the sun is still out.
And when the sun is out, it kind of cues our brains to want to be productive, go do things, be out in the world.
But when the sun is setting so early, it cues your brain to kind of hunker down, go inward, be inside, not be doing all these activities.
So suddenly you have this – all this extra – after dark free time, that if you are not intentional with that time, it can really take a toll on our mental health, our physical health, but also our presence in our own life.
If you are in America, you know that daylight savings started two days ago, at least at the time I'm recording this, it started two days ago.
And for us, that's always a pretty rough time of year.
And by us, I mean the entire population of America, because suddenly the sun goes down at the most ungodly hour right here where we are in Southern California.
It's going down at 4.55 p.m. right now, which is...
And it's so strange.
Last night I was in my kitchen and I got ready for bed.
I took a bath.
I'm like in my PJs.
I'm like, okay, I really got to wind down, you know, and go to sleep.
It's getting late, you know, because it's dark outside.
And when it's dark outside, it just kind of tells your brain, oh, it's nighttime.
And then I look at the clock and it was 5.47 p.m. And normally at 5.47 p.m., you know, in the summertime, I'd still be working.
It's so disorienting for it to be so dark so early.
And I think when this happens, because we have about four months of this where the sun goes down at quite a crazy hour, and I think it's really easy to let the disorientation of this really impact our routines and really impact the way that we choose to spend our free time and just the way that we live our life for these couple months.
And we were...
Going for a drive Monday evening and suddenly, because I was thinking about it, I was like, oh, okay, I really, I don't want to go home now and just sit down and, you know, put on the TV for what can turn into really like three, four hours.
We don't have a TV in our house, but, you know, put it on our computer.
whatever.
And it can easily, because, you know, you don't want to go to bed at 7 PM and then suddenly you've watched, you know, a show for three hours.
You're like, what the heck am I doing? I was like, I really don't want that to be what suddenly becomes of our routine for the next few months.
And not only that, not only do I not want to waste time, all of the free time that I have in the evening because if the sun went down at 7.30 p.m. like it was in the summer, all the way up until 7.38, we are outside, we're surfing, we're going for a walk, we're doing things with friends.
Like it's a very productive time because the sun is still out.
And when the sun is out, it kind of cues our brains to want to be productive, go do things, be out in the world.
But when the sun is setting so early, it cues your brain to kind of hunker down, go inward, be inside, not be doing all these activities.
So suddenly you have this – all this extra – after dark free time, that if you are not intentional with that time, it can really take a toll on our mental health, our physical health, but also our presence in our own life.
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