A review by bluejayreads
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

reflective slow-paced

3.0

Objectively, this is not a fantastic book. It's significantly more memoir than self-help, and a rambling one at that. It starts out solid, introducing the concept of wintering as an emotional season, parallelling not necessarily correlating with the season in nature. She discusses what the season feels like, the symptoms, and a few very general thoughts about how to get through such seasons. Then she loses the main thread and talks about various vignettes of her life, from seeing the Northern Lights to her son's first blizzard, ending with an extended discussion of the benefits of swimming in ice water. I appreciated it because it gave a name and explanation to what I'm going through right now, but it's unfocused and doesn't provide much advice for what to do when you're in an emotional winter. 
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