All About Hope
Hope has kindled the human spirit for thousands of years. In Greek mythology, hope was the single asset that remained with humanity after all the evils in Pandora’s box were unleashed upon the world. It inspired one of history’s best-known poems, Emily Dickinson’s “The Thing with Feathers”. President Obama was even elected to his first term in office after writing a book titled The Audacity of Hope.
Hope also plays a big role in well-being. Think about it: Many of the things we do in life—like going to school, applying for jobs, and maintaining loving friendships or romantic relationships—can be difficult. We do them, at least in part, because we have an abiding hope that they’ll lead somewhere we want to go.
An important goal in therapy is to help you discover the sources of hope in your life and how to harness these to make meaningful change. As one of the principal developers of “Hope Therapy,” a cognitive-behavioral approach to helping people set and pursue personally meaningful goals, I’ve spent decades exploring the dynamics of hope.
If you’d like to know more about my perspective on hope, check out this video of a talk I gave for Bay Area Cancer Connections a few years ago.
Hope has kindled the human spirit for thousands of years. In Greek mythology, hope was the single asset that remained with humanity after all the evils in Pandora’s box were unleashed upon the world. It inspired one of history’s best-known poems, Emily Dickinson’s “The Thing with Feathers”. President Obama was even elected to his first term in office after writing a book titled The Audacity of Hope.
Hope also plays a big role in well-being. Think about it: Many of the things we do in life—like going to school, applying for jobs, and maintaining loving friendships or romantic relationships—can be difficult. We do them, at least in part, because we have an abiding hope that they’ll lead somewhere we want to go.
An important goal in therapy is to help you discover the sources of hope in your life and how to harness these to make meaningful change. As one of the principal developers of “Hope Therapy,” a cognitive-behavioral approach to helping people set and pursue personally meaningful goals, I’ve spent decades exploring the dynamics of hope.
If you’d like to know more about my perspective on hope, check out this video of a talk I gave for Bay Area Cancer Connections a few years ago.
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