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In 'Wintering,' Katherine May Encourages 'The Active Acceptance Of Sadness'

The British author writes beautifully of her own recent bout with a personal winter, a period when she felt low and overwhelmed — and aims to help others to embrace their winters.
<em>Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times,</em> by Katherine May

As we head into what looks to be a cold, hard winter exacerbated by the coronovirus pandemic, British writer Katherine May offers some warming advice: Embrace your winter!

By winter, she means not just the cold season, but "a fallow period in life when you're cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider."

In May writes beautifully of her own recent bout with a personal winter, a period when she felt low

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