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Hope is not something you find; it’s something you build and nurture.
Small daily moments of joy can help you to reconnect with hope during any season.
Caring for yourself creates the inner conditions that encourage hope to grow within you.
When I started writing my latest book on hope, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to say. The world doesn’t exactly make hope feel easy these days. There always seems to be another headline reminding us of everything that is going wrong, another reason to feel uncertain about the future.
But as I sat with that feeling, I realised something important: Losing hope would mean deciding to stop trying, stop living, and stop enjoying life simply because problems exist. And I didn’t want to live that way.
The truth is, the world will always have its difficulties. There will always be uncertainty, change, and things we cannot control. But that doesn’t mean we have to lose ourselves to them. It doesn’t mean we stop looking for beauty, connection, meaning, or joy.
I believe every person has the ability to learn how to feel more hopeful. That is what led me to write Notes on Hope. I wanted to explore how we can build hope, nurture it, and reconnect with it in our everyday lives. Because........