Helen Russell: How to be Sad: Everything I’ve learned about getting happier, by being sad, better [2021] paperback ZCURA exhorting listeners to dance

exhorting listeners to dance

a Reese's Book Club pick

but the overall theme for me was hope

' Ian McEwan

as the sun sets

Helen Russell: How to be Sad: Everything I’ve learned about getting happier, by being sad, better [2021] paperback ZCURA exhorting listeners to danceWe live in an age when reality TV shows climax in a tearful finale. But feeling sad genuinely sad is still taboo. Yet, sadness happens to us all, sometimes in heartbreakingly awful ways. If we don't know how to be sad, it can be isolating for those experiencing it and baffling for those trying to help others through dark times. Today, most of us know intellectually that 'sad' is normal. But we're not always brilliant at allowing for it, in practice.