度冬: 在人生的寒冷時刻，停止消耗自己，沉靜修復內在

by Katherine May, 林薩寶 (Translator)

獻給每個生命中的冬期

║Barnes & Noble年度圖書獎║

人的一生免不了要度冬，
此時我們最需要的，
是像樹那樣安安靜靜長出自己的離層，讓枯葉脫落。

每個人都要學習度冬，像自然界的萬物一樣，在能量變得稀薄的時候，深深縮起來，等陽光再度充沛時，自然而然便能煥發新生。

度冬期是一段寒冷的季節，可能來自疾病、喪親、失業、關係崩解，也可能只是一段漫長而難以言說的失落狀態。那是被世界隔絕的時刻，是生命被迫休耕的階段：我們感覺被拒絕、被邊緣化，被阻斷前行的道路，或被推入局外人的角色。個人只能站在邊界，進入一片黑暗而未知的過渡地帶。

在《度冬》中，英國作家凱瑟琳‧梅深入探索這段生命低谷的經驗，並援引文學、神話與自然現象，重新定義隨冬天而來的黑暗、孤獨與枯萎──它並非單純的低潮或終結，而是萬物休養生息的過程，其中蘊藏著自然的智慧。她提出：若快樂是一種能力，那麼悲傷也是。我們被教導要忽略悲傷，但在長大成人後，往往必須重新學會聽懂悲傷的清晰呼喚。這就是度冬。這是一種主動接納悲傷的態度，是允許自己把悲傷視為一種需要去感受。

書中，她在冰島的藍湖、芬蘭桑拿的高熱裡尋回身體的感知；她探訪北方趨近永夜之地，並透

167 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 3, 2025

About the author

Katherine May is an internationally bestselling author and podcaster living in Whitstable, UK. Her hybrid memoir Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times became a New York Times, Sunday Times and Der Spiegel bestseller, was adapted as BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week, and was shortlisted for the Porchlight and Barnes and Noble Book of the Year. The Electricity of Every Living Thing, her memoir of a midlife autism diagnosis, is currently being adapted as an audio drama by Audible. Other titles include novels such as The Whitstable High Tide Swimming Club, and The Best, Most Awful Job, an anthology of essays about motherhood which she edited. Her journalism and essays have appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, The Observer and Aeon.

Katherine’s podcast, The Wintering Sessions, ranks in the top 1% worldwide, and she has been a guest presenter for On Being’s The Future of Hope series. Her next book, Enchantment, will be published in 2023.

Katherine lives with her husband, son, two cats and a dog. She loves walking, sea-swimming and pickling slightly unappealing things.