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Learning to enjoy winter can start with a shift in mindset

Learning to embrace the winter

It's not a surprise that many people dread winter.

The teeth-chattering temperatures, snow shoveling, and darkness of the winter months provide plenty of reasons why.

But some communities in the far north in places like Tromso, Norway, have learned to embrace their climates and actually enjoy the winter months and stretches of darkness. One health psychologist says it all starts with a shift in mindset.

Kari Leibowitz writes in "How to Winter" that learning to not view the winter months in a negative light can lead to us finding more joy and fulfillment and…

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