Julie

“But 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”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“Some winters are gradual. Some winters creep up on us so slowly that they have infiltrated every part of our lives before we truly feel them.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“I will never understand why men think that women work so hard to destroy them. In my experience it is usually the opposite.”
― Ariel Lawhon, The Frozen River

“Wintering is a season in the cold. It is 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.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times