How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future
An inspirational mental health book to help you find hope and build it into a lifelong habit.

Filled with practical exercises, questions to consider, revealing research, timeless philosophy, and tales of triumph over adversity, How to Be Hopeful is an uplifting, motivational, and essential guide to living and acting with renewed hope for self-compassion and for a more compassionate world. It shows us the places we can look for hope—in nature, art, the kindness of strangers, our own actions—and ways to keep it alive through moments of adversity.

A wonderful gift for all occasions!

  • Graduation
  • Birthday
  • Divorce
  • Get well or feel better after surgery
  • Cheer up
  • Thinking of you

Author, performer, and activist, Bernadette Russell, has made it her life's mission to teach the practice of hope, allowing us to focus on the positives and the possibilities—no matter what challenges life throws at us.

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How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future
An inspirational mental health book to help you find hope and build it into a lifelong habit.

Filled with practical exercises, questions to consider, revealing research, timeless philosophy, and tales of triumph over adversity, How to Be Hopeful is an uplifting, motivational, and essential guide to living and acting with renewed hope for self-compassion and for a more compassionate world. It shows us the places we can look for hope—in nature, art, the kindness of strangers, our own actions—and ways to keep it alive through moments of adversity.

A wonderful gift for all occasions!

  • Graduation
  • Birthday
  • Divorce
  • Get well or feel better after surgery
  • Cheer up
  • Thinking of you

Author, performer, and activist, Bernadette Russell, has made it her life's mission to teach the practice of hope, allowing us to focus on the positives and the possibilities—no matter what challenges life throws at us.

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How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future

How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future

by Bernadette Russell
How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future

How to Be Hopeful: An Inspirational Guide to Ignite a Life Full of Hope, Happiness, and Compassion for Yourself and Our Future

by Bernadette Russell

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An inspirational mental health book to help you find hope and build it into a lifelong habit.

Filled with practical exercises, questions to consider, revealing research, timeless philosophy, and tales of triumph over adversity, How to Be Hopeful is an uplifting, motivational, and essential guide to living and acting with renewed hope for self-compassion and for a more compassionate world. It shows us the places we can look for hope—in nature, art, the kindness of strangers, our own actions—and ways to keep it alive through moments of adversity.

A wonderful gift for all occasions!

  • Graduation
  • Birthday
  • Divorce
  • Get well or feel better after surgery
  • Cheer up
  • Thinking of you

Author, performer, and activist, Bernadette Russell, has made it her life's mission to teach the practice of hope, allowing us to focus on the positives and the possibilities—no matter what challenges life throws at us.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781728245591
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Publication date: 04/06/2021
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

BERNADETTE RUSSELL is a writer, performer and storyteller living in London. She is a columnist for Balance magazine, writing a monthly musing on the theme of kindness.

Table of Contents

Introduction In Search of Hope v

Chapter 1 Ordinary Days 1

Nurturing hope in the everyday

Chapter 2 Our Younger Selves 22

Recapturing the optimism of childhood

Chapter 3 Hard Times 39

Finding hope on the rainiest of days

Chapter 4 Finding the Light 59

Staying hopeful through death and grief

Chapter 5 Murmur at Ions 82

Reaping the benefits of community connections

Chapter 6 The Edgelands 106

Finding the balance between good news and bad

Chapter 7 Deeds and Words 124

Taking positive action

Chapter 8 Hope is a Forest 150

Joining the fight for nature-and for as all

Chapter 9 Back to the Future 176

Finding hope for tomorrow in science, art, and innovation

Epilogue A Manifesto for Hope 197

Acknowledgments 199

Chapter Notes 203

A Directory of Hope 213

Index 217

About the Author 224

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