Key points

Hope is a practice we cultivate, not just a feeling we wait for.

Hope can be borrowed and shared.

To stay steady and be of service to others, we each need our own way of staying hope-filled.

There were times in my life when I didn’t have the strength to hold hope for myself. I believe that each one of us has a tiny and tender pilot light in our soul that keeps our will to live alive. At one point, it felt as though my flame had gone out.

In my first book, Calm Within the Storm , I wrote about how my flame didn’t extinguish in a single moment. I navigated a tumultuous adolescence and tried to ask for help in all the wrong ways: addiction , self-harm , self-sabotage , broken relationships. At 16, I didn’t know how to tell the people who loved me that I was strugglin

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