How to Have Hope in Desperate Times Pt.1

What a few weeks we have had here in the United States!

For some, it’s been a time of lifetime dreams coming true, for others it’s a blatant display of disregard for the life they’ve been fighting to extend for generations and generations.

Throw a birthday of sorts in the mix and it’s the perfect recipe for drunken fireworks accidents and mass shootings by white terrorists at the city parade.

All the chaos encouraged me to share some thoughts and strategies I’ve developed over the years that have resulted in me feeling like I still have hope even in these tumultuous times.

I share this because I love you and I want all of us to make it through this healthy, happy, and with equity in our system.

I can’t do much about your happiness, but I can share what undergirds mine and maybe you’ll find some tools you can use as well.

I took to Tik Tok to share my thoughts and the overwhelming response I got there reminded me I should be sharing these things with you all first and foremost. This time, I went the opposite way, but you get the extra bonus of the writing I’m adding along so I hope you’ll forgive me.

Take a minute and watch the video above if you want to know where this started.

So, is it authentic or ostentatious for me to say “I have hope” when the whole world appears to be going to hell in a handbasket?

Only you can decide what’s true for you, but I will say I loved Susan Cain’s latest book, Bittersweet because it gave me an opportunity to understand better why I can exist so easily at the intersection of grief and hope.

I’ve done it for a long time, so I promise it wasn’t easy or an overnight process.

You may or may not be like me in that way, but I promise, even if you aren’t, you CAN find hope even in desperate times.

I say this with so much confidence because of who I have chosen to learn from over the past 8 years or so.

To keep this process simple for now, I broke my thoughts down into a series called: How to Have Hope in Desperate Times.

I don’t know exactly how many parts it will end up having, but right now, there are 7 bite-sized videos that represent months of work.

Since they are small nuggets based on big thinking adjustments we might need to face, I’ll spread them out and add context and resources for you on this blog.

Before we dive into the series though, here’s your warning:

The next four posts are about looking in the mirror.

That’s how important our own self is in the recipe of how to have hope. We have to dig in deep to the who, what, how, why, and when of our individual existence on this planet.

I’ll take you through how to do that pretty thoroughly over the next 4 posts, but right now, go look in a mirror and tell yourself ” WOW. You are Awesome. A miracle. A Real gift to the world.”

Talk soon. I love you.

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