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We have the ability to impact our level of happiness.

When life keeps on life-ing, we can find a path forward through hope.

Using a structured framework for hope can create a path forward.

Connection and community will make challenging times easier.

If you’ve felt more mentally exhausted than usual lately, you’re not imagining it.

Every time you open the news, scroll through social media, or walk into a conversation at work, there seems to be another layer of uncertainty, conflict, or pressure. Even when your personal life is “fine,” the constant exposure to global stress can quietly drain your emotional reserves.

If you’re feeling overwhelmed, hear this clearly: you’re not alone.

By pretty much any metric, Americans are feeling more hopeless than ever. A record 18% of Americans are clinically depressed, Americans are fleeing the country in record numbers, and according to a Gallup poll comprised of over 22,000 participants, Americans are feeling less optimistic about their future and less satisfied with their lives than ever before.

Any way you crunch the numbers, the result is the same: as a society, we're struggling.

Is there any hope for us? It depends on who you ask. If you were to ask Charles R. Snyder, a psychologist who specialized in positive psychology, you’d quickly start to feel optimistic again about the future.

Charles R. Snyder reframed hope not as a pleasant emotion but as a positive motivational state. In Snyder’s Hope Theory, hope is grounded in three........

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