hope as an antidote to fear

Choosing Positivity: How Your Mindset Shapes Your Day and Your Life

Life doesn’t always go to plan. Things happen beyond your control, people make choices that affect you, and challenges appear when you least expect them. But within that, you still have one powerful tool – your perspective.

Positivity is not pretending everything is perfect. It’s choosing to believe that, despite the messiness of life, something good is still possible.

You can’t control everything – but you can choose how you respond

Other people have free will. Circumstances can shift, and Life ebbs and flows. But how you show up, what you focus on, and the energy you bring into each moment – that’s yours. read more

By Alison Wem, ago

Fear is in the air: What hope is there for us?

When fear is all around you as it feels to be at the moment, it is easy to inadvertently absorb it.

What can you do?

You are not defined by others’ actions but rather by how you respond. You may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your reaction. I would like to think I chose hope over fear. No matter what is happening, I would always hope;

  • tomorrow will be a better day than today
  • compassion for others will prevail
  • good decisions triumph over bad ones

When I want to remind myself of the power of hope to our individual survival, I reread the book;

Man’s Search for Meaning: the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust read more

By Alison Wem, ago