Though our circumstances may be (vastly) different, we all experience times when we feel awesome and also when we feel awful. It's how we respond to these feelings, the tools we pull out of the toolbox, that makes the difference between thriving or just surviving. My work is all about helping you make tomorrow better than today by taking action over the things you can control. It's about progress and practice and habit and trying new things. I have been successful in my life by using these tools to grow and thrive and I want to share what's worked for me so you can keep thriving too. Hope is a big motivator for me – the promise that my future can be better than it is today is what keeps me trying the next right thing. Hope is what gives me courage to talk out loud, sharing my story for the possibility that it motivates someone else to share theirs. Hope is what encourages me to keep learning, figuring out what I don’t know and teaching me the words to use during those tough conversations. And hope is what gives me the confidence, and self-forgiveness, to acknowledge when I’m hurting, to understand that its relevant to me and my life, and that if it matters to me, it matters.