Healing Emotional Pain is Possible

Some wounds are impossible to measure. How do you quantify the number of sleepless nights or hours spent crying? While physical wounds can be seen and treated, emotional pain — especially that caused by trauma — can be challenging to repair.
KPMG: Hope Spotlight

In this series, we celebrate organizations that create hope where it’s needed most. Our first spotlight shines on KPMG LLP. A longtime collaborator with Stars of HOPE, KPMG is one […]
Five Ways Art Heals Trauma Survivors

In art therapy, it’s the act of creating art that heals, as well as the act of sharing it with others.
Here are five ways that can art heal a trauma survivor:
How Can Art Help Ukraine?

It seems that, at any given point in time, it’s possible to turn on the news and read about something terrible happening on the other side of the world. Recently, […]
The 5 Stages of HOPE

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was the psychiatrist who gave the world its most famous psychological model of grief: the five stages we all go through after a loss – anger, denial, […]
How to Talk to Your Kid About Mass Tragedies

The last few years have brought changes in the world that most adults never thought we’d see in our lifetimes. We can only imagine how scary it must be to […]
The HOPE Bank: How donating hope is like donating blood

Did you know that we all have two different kinds of hearts? Just as your physical heart pumps blood through your body, your emotional heart sends your feelings throughout the […]
You Will Laugh Again

This blog deals with depression and suicide. If you or someone you know is in need of immediate assistance, help is available here. The world is badly in need of […]
Finding Your “New Normal”

Creating new hope in the ashes of what you’ve lost
Hope for Doomscrollers

It’s not an “empathy deficit”—it’s emotional exhaustion. Here’s how to recognize the signs and heal them in yourself and others.