No year has ever skipped winter to get to summer faster. Hard months are part of the loop.

Difficult stretches are built into the cycle rather than interruptions to it. Expecting an unbroken run of good months turns every hard one into evidence that something has gone wrong, which stacks a second problem on top of the first. A bad season is not a detour from the year, it is part of how the year is shaped.

When a hard stretch arrives, lower what you expect of your output and keep the basics running. Ask what this season is actually for. Getting through it intact is the whole task, and it does turn.