How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days by Kari Leibowitz -- BOOK BEGINNINGS

BOOK BEGINNINGS ON FRIDAYS

How to Winter by Keri Liebowitz, PhD.

Thank you for joining me for Book Beginnings on Fridays. Please share the opening sentence (or so) of the book you are reading this week. You can also share from a book that caught your fancy, even if you are not reading it right now.

MY BOOK BEGINNING

Located more than two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, Tromsø, Norway, is home to an extreme and special winter, when the world often appears blue-tinted, snow cloaks the city in quiet, and the northern lights dance in the sky.

-- from How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive on Cold, Dark, or Difficult Days by Kari Leibowitz, PhD. 

A friend of mine gave me this book for Christmas and I want to read it while it is still winter. It is aimed at people who don't like winter, so I am not really the target audience. Maybe if I lived some place where winters are harsh, I'd dislike winter. But here in the Pacific Northwest, winter is pretty mild. We definitely get the dark, shorter days, and the weather is chilly and damp. But we don't usually get snow and it rarely dips below freezing. I enjoy the change of season very much, although I understand that some people don't. 

Still, Leibowitz has interesting ideas for how to deal with the winter blues, so I am enjoying the book. She also makes an effort to explain how her advice and tips can be applied to any depressing situation -- more of a winter of the soul than a season. 

For more on winter in Portland and a list of 18 wintery book, check out my post from earlier this week. 

 

YOUR BOOK BEGINNINGS

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THE FRIDAY 56

The Friday 56 is a natural tie-in with Book Beginnings. The idea is to share a two-sentence teaser from page 56 of your featured book. If you are reading an ebook or audiobook, find your teaser from the 56% mark.

Freda at Freda's Voice started and hosted The Friday 56 for a long, long time. She is taking a break and Anne at My Head is Full of Books has taken on hosting duties in her absence. Please visit Anne's blog and link to your Friday 56 post.

MY FRIDAY 56

-- from How to Winter:

The recommendations in this book are not one-size-fits-all. Rather, they are a smorgasbord of psychological tools and winter strategies that anyone can use, wherever you live, to cultivate more adaptive mindsets and embrace the darkest time of year.

FROM THE PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION

Do you dread the end of Daylight Saving Time and grouch about the long, chilly season of gray skies and ice? Do you find yourself in a slump every January and February? What if there were a way to rethink this time of year? Psychologist and winter expert Kari Leibowitz’s galvanizing HOW TO WINTER uses mindset science to help readers embrace winter as a season to be enjoyed, not endured—and in turn, learn powerful lessons that can impact our mental wellbeing throughout the year.