How to Winter: Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive In Cold, Dark or Difficult Times (Hardback) - Kari Leibowitz

The ultimate, evidence-based guide to coping with winter, from one of the world's foremost experts on mindset psychology.

Essential strategies for turning life's challenges into opportunities for growth - Carol Dweck, author of Mindset.

Do you struggle to stay positive in winter?

Do you dread the long nights and dark skies that come with autumn's clock change?

Do you find endless grey skies, drizzle and cold difficult to deal with?

Nobody can change the weather, but Dr. Kari Leibowitz's groundbreaking How to Winter will help you dramatically shift how you feel about the darkest and coldest of the seasons. Leibowitz is the world's foremost winter psychology mindset expert, and in How to Winter she sets out evidence-based strategies to help you learn not only to accept the chillier months, but even to embrace them.

Drawing on her extensive PhD research, and insight from cultures around the world, Leibowitz offers practical, easy-to-follow advice for transforming your experience of wintertime. What's more, she sets out how techniques used for shifting our mindsets around winter can also be used to cope with times of emotional difficulty.

Whether you suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder, or simply find yourself in an annual slump, How to Winter will help you learn to thrive in cold, dark or difficult times.

The perfect mix of science, story-telling, and practical advice, How to Winter is not just a guide to finding joy and wonder in winter-it's also a truly life-changing education about human nature and psychology. It's a book that will help you find magic and meaning in everyday life and one you'll want to give to the people you love. - Kelly McGonigal, bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct.

Incredible and evocatively written... Reading this book convinced me that changing my perspective on just about any unpleasant experience in life - not just wintertime - can in fact transform the experience itself. This is a must-read for anyone who loves winter - and anyone who hates it. - Vauhini Vara, author of The Immortal King Rao, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

I will never look at winter the same way again after reading this book - Simone Stolzoff, author of The Good Enough Job.

A treasure trove of science-backed ideas and inspiration for making it through winter like the Nordics do - Helen Russell, bestselling author of The Year of Living Danishly.

In this delightful and original book, Kari Leibowitz convincingly argues that in learning to love winter we can gain a deeper insight into the ability of our mindset to control our reality. - Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of Slow Productivity and Deep Work.

A stunning debut from a major new thinker. - Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author of When, Drive, and The Power of Regret.

About the Author

Kari Leibowitz is a Stanford-trained PhD and expert at leveraging mindset to improve health and well-being. She combines scholarly expertise with practical know-how to apply the science of mindset to make us happier and healthier, and is a particular expert in applying this knowledge to winter. She is the author of How to Winter.