Hope

This is inauguration day and everyone on television sounds so hopeful. People saying they have been waiting for this day their whole life. It is almost like a rebirth of a nation. Well nothing has changed. We are still in two wars, the economy is still a disaster, people are losing their homes to foreclosure and unemployment is climbing everyday. Yet people are hopeful.

Hope is what counseling offers patients. So often when people come in for counseling they feel that all is lost. When a spouse asks for a divorce the person feels like a failure and that no one will ever love them again. Through counseling they realize that life goes on. Eventually, they meet someone and realize they have a chance at happiness. When hope is restored their feelings of depression lift.

Hope is important to everyone, so when everything looks glib look for something positive.