How to Winter

Harnessing Your Mindset to Thrive In Cold, Dark or Difficult Times

By: Kari Leibowitz

Narrated by: Kari Leibowitz

Read by the author, Kari Leibowitz

Do you dread the clocks changing, and struggle to stay positive in winter? Do you struggle with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and don't know how to address it?

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.

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

'The perfect mix of science, story-telling, and practical advice' – Kelly McGonigal, author of The Willpower Instinct

Critic reviews

Kari Leibowitz has written a practical guide to harnessing our mindsets to help us find meaning in darkness and difficulty. This book offers essential strategies for turning life's challenges into opportunities for growth. (Carol Dweck, renowned psychologist and bestselling author of Mindset)

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. (Kelly McGonigal, bestselling author of The Willpower Instinct)

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. (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)