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Wintering

12/10/2020

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If happiness is a skill, then sadness is, too.

​Perhaps through all those years at school, or perhaps through other terrors, we are taught to ignore sadness, to stuff it down into our satchels and pretend it isn’t there.

As adults, we often have to learn to hear the clarity of its call.

That is wintering.

It is the active acceptance of sadness. It is the practice of allowing ourselves to feel it as a need. It is the courage to stare down the worst parts of our experience and to commit to healing them the best we can.

Wintering is a moment of intuition, our true needs felt keenly as a knife.


~ Katherine May ~ Wintering: How I Learned to Flourish When Life Became Frozen

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Aemi
12/10/2020 08:19:37 am

This is beautiful. Have heard of this book, but been on the fence about whether or not to read it. I think I shall...

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Tamara Baysinger
12/10/2020 08:24:24 am

Same here. I heard this quote on NPR last week, and it stuck with me. I got the book on Audible for listening on long walks.

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