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Hope Hacks for Summer Blues

It's a tricky thing to find yourself feeling blue in the summer. The peaches are ripe, days at the lake are long, and hammocks wait ready in the shade; how could anyone be so selfish to be sad when it's all this good? And yet ... it happens. No need to examine the 1000 reasons you might be feelin...

Jul 30, 2026 hope sadness

What's a Hope Merchant?

I am a practitioner of a psycho-therapeutic modality called Internal Family Systems. It's a fancy way of saying, we're all made up of a bunch of parts. Think of a junior high school band learning to play. You are the conductor at the front of the room, with all your clarity, calm and compassion...

Aug 11, 2025 hope ifs

Welcome to Firestarter!

Back in the day, when I worked for Mercy Ships - a non-profit which runs the largest civilian hospital ships in the world - people would sign up in advance to talk to me, during my short visits to the ship. I was always surprised by that. I'd arrive to the ship after a million hours in the air ...

by Erin Kirk — Aug 10, 2025 encouragement hope

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