What You Need to Live a Life of Purpose
I can remember the feelings so vividly—the emptiness, the yearning, the confusion, the lacking, and the depression. They all merged...
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Mathew
- Jan 26
- 3 min
10 Places to Find Hope When Life Knocks You Down
In the spring of 2006, I was training for the MS 150, a cycling event to raise funds for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. I was...
Mathew
- Jan 23
- 4 min
3 Thoughts That Bring Me Hope, Perspective, Peace, and Strength
Tears filled my eyes, and an angry wave of despair washed over me. I just wanted to wear the jeans I had worn for a couple years. The...
Mathew
- Jan 20
- 7 min
What Helps Me Get Strong When Life Gets Hard
In 2016 I was about to graduate with high honors from a top university. I had mastered Mandarin. Eleven months before graduation, I had...
Mathew
- Jan 17
- 6 min
How to Be Your Own Hero When Faced With a Hopeless Challenge
Can you remember a time when you felt completely helpless? I do. It was the day my daughter was diagnosed with a serious digestive...
Mathew
- Jan 14
- 7 min
How I Found Hope and Inspiration After Years of Quiet Desperation
How many years do we live with a sense of quiet desperation, faking the connection we have with ourselves? Why do we deny ourselves...
Mathew
- Jan 11
- 5 min
What If There’s Beauty on the Other Side of Your Pain?
“I don’t want to live anymore. I don’t want to be here. I can’t do this. It hurts too much. It’s too hard.” I’m curious how many times...
Mathew
- Jan 8
- 6 min
When You Feel Tired of Hoping and Trying, Remember…
What do you do when just can’t do it anymore? When the pain is too much? The discouragement is too much? The hoping and trying are too...
Mathew
- Jan 5
- 6 min
Surviving Life’s Storms: Have Hope That Life Will Carry On
I have weathered my fair share of storms. When I was in college, I met a boy a month after arriving on campus. I was eighteen, naive, and...
Mathew
- Jan 2
- 5 min
How I Stopped Feeling Hopeless and Healed from Depression
I come from a history of abuse and mental illness on both sides of my family. I felt the effects of both growing up. By my twenties, I...
Mathew
- Dec 30, 2022
- 6 min
How to Deal When You Feel Frustrated and Hopeless
Last year, my life was in ruins. I had to visit two different hospitals almost every day of the week. At noon, I’d watch my grandmother...
Mathew
- Dec 27, 2022
- 5 min
How to Keep Going When You Want To Give Up on Life
I thought I had this suicide stuff in the bag. I thought it lived in the past. I thought it was no longer a part of me. I thought I had...
Mathew
- Dec 24, 2022
- 4 min
How to Cultivate Hope When the World Feels Dark and Scary
The world is so broken. We are broken. We all need healing. Recent events worldwide are terrifying and sad. This cold and dark time of...
Mathew
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
4 Things to Remember When Life Feels Hopeless
Were there times in your life where it felt anything that could go wrong went wrong? That was me five years ago. In a span of nine...
Mathew
- Dec 18, 2022
- 4 min
Keep Hope Alive: How To Help Someone Who’s Struggling
I write this today seemingly healthy. My doctors say I’m healthy. I feel healthy. I look healthy. But over the last six months this was...
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