How to Winter (2024)
A blend of mindset science, original research, and cultural insights for cultivating a "positive wintertime mindset” to vanquish winter blues and find joy and comfort in dark times year-round Do you dread the end of daylight saving time and complain about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Do you find yourself in a slump every January and February? What if there were a way to rethink this time of year? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz’s galvanizing How to Winter uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season to be enjoyed, not endured—and in turn learn powerful lessons that can affect mental well-being throughout the year. Kari Leibowitz has lived in the Arctic and traveled to places on Earth with some of the coldest, darkest, and longest winters. There she discovered the power of "wintertime mindset"—viewing the season as full of opportunity and wonder. Helpful strategies for cultivating this wintertime mindset can teach us not just about embracing the frigid, gray months of the year but also the darker and more challenging seasons of life. Inspired by cutting-edge psychological and behavioral science research as well as cultures worldwide that find warmth and joy in winter’s extremes, How to Winter provides readers with concrete tools for making winter pleasant wherever they live.
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- 9781035006977
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- 402 pages
Genres: nonfiction
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