Dr. Julia Garcia

no matter what their their basis was and that's why i think it's it's critical for every single person whether you're lean mooring you lean more on the i'm positive and hopeful side to i'm a i'm really hopeless about my entire situation right now that both situations and every varying degree in between needs to continue having a process to navigate whichever side that they're on because you never know when hopelessness is going to hit

One of the worst things that you can become with that hopelessness space is apathetic.

where you just don't feel anything.

And that is a place that is a really challenging place to be.

But when you have hope, it is a predictor of our mental health and wellbeing.

And it's also a protective factor in like a crisis, an internal crisis, such as that apathy, where maybe you get to a place where you,

You don't feel like your life matters.

And so hope is a protective factor in that.

It's also a predictive of success and helping people to cope better and to problem solve and adapt and recover faster.

So it's one of the key factors in promoting our healing through any of the things that maybe we're struggling with, anxiety, depression, even substance abuse.

So it doesn't say it doesn't erase the pain or the problem.

It allows us a pathway to coexist with it and to navigate through it.

I think that's where it goes into the false hope, right?

And the wishful thinking.

And it always comes back to how do I have a process to navigate through this emotionally?

What are my habits of hope?

What is that toolkit that I can lean back on?

And they could be different for that situation.

So if you're, we'll take this situation, for example, if you just bombed a job interview and you're like, it is not going to happen.

It's not denying that that's the reality, right?