A change is gonna come

Photo by Alice Donovan Rouse

I often meet people who tell me, implicitly or explicitly, that they have lost hope — hope of ever getting out of a pattern of bad relationships, hope of ever finding a partner, hope of ever feeling whole or vibrant again. Or that they simply find it dangerous to hope. Hopes can be crushed, after all.

I’ve been there and can understand what it’s like to feel stuck, like a better situation is forever eluding you, making you…