'Wintering' Is Painful, But Embracing The Cold Makes It Hurt Less
Writer Katherine May describes "wintering" as the times we feel frozen, hopeless cast out — but, she says, embracing that feeling will help us endure it better, and return to the world renewed.
We've reached the time of year where the days are getting shorter and colder, but that's no reason to retreat from the world. The English writer Katherine May actually sees this as a transformative time. She has visited Stonehenge during the winter solstice. She's traveled to the Arctic to see the northern lights, and she has soaked in the Blue Lagoon. She writes about all this in her latest book, Wintering.
"Wintering is my term for a period in life when we're frozen,
