Individual and Couples Therapy

“In a world that is at once beautiful and pained, glorious and tortured, thriving and anguished, many ask: Is there hope? What does it look like? Where and what is it?”

“Hope, first of all, must be realistic. That is, hope can be hope only if it admits that which is darkest while urging toward the light. Nothing glib, or bland, or deflective toward the depth of despair could be a contender for hope. If hope has not first been silenced before the profundity of evil and loss, then such a two– dimensional offering is more scandalous than fruitful. Realistic is not so much concerned with practicality as it is about fruitfulness.”

“Hope also takes time to mature. On the whole, quick fixes are no match for protracted suffering. Instead, the story of hope is often a long one, with unexpected twists and turns, steps forward and often back too. Time can be both a threat and a friend to hope. Injustice, for example, has to be tediously dismantled, not exploded. Time is often infuriating, but it is true. Hope is more like a treatment plan than an adjustment: in other words, hope takes time to shift toward healing.” 

– Mark Labberton, forward for Makoto Fujimura’s Culture Care, Reconnecting With Beauty for our Common Life