How to Be Hopeful: Your Toolkit to Rediscover Hope and Help Create a More Compassionate World

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The perfect book for troubling times. The ideas and exercises in How to Be Hopeful will soothe your soul. Katherine May, author of Wintering

There is always hope. Even when we're grieving or afraid, worn down by everyday troubles or relentless bad news, it is there. As an expert on the multiple benefits of hope and kindness, Bernadette Russell reveals how hope can be nurtured by all of us, even in uncertain times.

Filled with cutting-edge research, timeless philosophy and tales of triumph over adversity, this uplifting and essential toolkit will give you all you need to cultivate hope in yourself, your community and in our future.

With plenty of 'try this' tips and case studies of everyday 'hope heroes', How to Be Hopeful will inspire you to live and to act with renewed hope for a more compassionate world.

Hope is the fuel that transforms our lives.

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Bernadette Russell is an expert on hope and kindness, as well as a writer, performer and activist who plants a lot of trees and helps others do thesame. She is author of The Little Book of Kindness and The Little Book of Wonder, both published by Orion and in multiple foreign editions around the world. Since 2012, she has toured the US and UK speaking about the importance and life-changing experience of practicing kindness, including for BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live, Action for Happiness, Birmingham School of Philosophy, People Uniteds Kindness Symposium, The Roundhouse, Tate Britain, Turner Contemporary, Sunday Assembly and the Southbank Centre, where she was nominated as one of sixty-seven change makers for her project 366 Days of Kindness. Since 2018 she has worked with the Royal Albert Hall, producing performances with kindness and creativity at their heart.