Hopeful Acceptance: Strategies for Coping with Chronic Illness (Part 4)

Navigating Toward a Hopeful Outcome Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 By Alana Karran Hope is a state of being. It is also a destination. It is as much a feeling of trust in something unseen as it is an aspiration or wish of something yet to come. Hope provides the state of mind for a chronically ill person to face each day with both acceptance and a desire to breathe into what is possible. Cultivating hope can, even on the good days, feel immensely challenging to someone living with chronic illness. How do you overcome a diagnosis that offers little or no hope for recovery? By remembering that this is just a moment in time. What is true today may not be true tomorrow. You have a choice to show up in whatever capacity you are capable of in this