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 perils of Pandora’s box were unleashed upon the world. It also inspired one of history’s best-known poems, Emily Dickinson’s “The Thing with Feathers”. Many of the things we do in life—from going to school and applying for jobs, to maintaining loving relationships and raising children—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 sources of hope in your life and harness these to make meaningful change. As one of the principal developers of “Hope Therapy,” a cognitive-behavioral approach to helping people pursue personally meaningful lives, 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 my recent TEDx talk:
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 perils of Pandora’s box were unleashed upon the world. It also inspired one of history’s best-known poems, Emily Dickinson’s “The Thing with Feathers”. Many of the things we do in life—from going to school and applying for jobs, to maintaining loving relationships and raising children—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 sources of hope in your life and harness these to make meaningful change. As one of the principal developers of “Hope Therapy,” a cognitive-behavioral approach to helping people pursue personally meaningful lives, 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 my recent TEDx talk:
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