Why Women Need Wintering with Katherine May The Balanced Lady Boss

“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
I had the pleasure of interview NYT Best Selling author, Katherine May on a recent episode of my podcast. Not only was her book a great way to explore the concept of wintering, but the conversation was even more Epic! Are you hiding from your wintering experiences the way I typically do or are you having a challenge shifting beyond them?
I hope this episodes brings you some new learnings and maybe some peace of mind about an often neglected process we all go through.