the HOPE chronicles blog

  • Check-in Time

    It’s often said the people who take their life are the ones that seem to have the most going for them. The strong ones. So naturally, it is a shock to the ones left behind -wondering what they could have done to stop it. In the last few weeks there have been a number of…

    Katherine Olivia

  • Hope for Tomorrow

    Have you ever felt the seasonal blues? The nagging, “why am I not happy?” feeling also known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)? It’s fairly common and often follows the collective winter holidays of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year for a brief period. And then…POOF. It vanishes almost as quickly as it came. The reasoning behind…

    Katherine Olivia

  • Finding Hope in the Aftermath

    Finding hope in the wake of a devastating situation seems to be a daunting task for most of us—especially for those of us who have low expectations of ourselves to begin with. In my blog of last week I discussed the Pygmalion Effect : a phenonmenon where individuals perform to the level of expectation placed…

    Katherine Olivia