Preview of the Book
Is this book for you? Ask yourself a few simple questions. Are you interested in developing stronger relationships? Is mastery important to you? Are you looking for inspiration? Would you like to cultivate a greater sense of peace and inner calm? Is health and healing on your mind? If your answer is yes to one or more of these questions, then rest assured; you will benefit from this book.

• Attachment: How to give and receive hope. How to be a "hope provider".
• Mastery: How to find inspiration and make use of hidden dreams.
• Survival: How to find peace, cope with loss, and gain a measure of immortality.
• Culture: How to build on a cultural foundation of hope sources and possibilities.
• Faith: How to benefit from the seven types of hope embedded in world religions.
• Spirituality: How to use hope to increase your spiritual intelligence.
• Hopelessness: How to recognize and deal with hopelessness.
• Development: How to understand hope and hopelessness in children and teens.
• Healing: How to transform hope into a healthy portable environment.
• Creativity: How to creatively use facts while building a more hopeful reality.

Hope in the Age of Anxiety will give you an introduction to a powerful new approach to hope, giving you a better understanding of the ways in which your early development, cultural background and spiritual beliefs impact the level and quality of your dreams and aspirations.

You may be asking yourself, "Is this going to be a "religious" book?" Our book (and this website) is meant for everyone. Our approach meets the needs of traditional religious adherents as well as spiritually-minded humanists and staunch atheists. Believers along with nonbelievers should be able to benefit from our approach to hope. Readers should come away with a better understanding of how hope is expressed in the context of Buddhism or Christianity, Islam or Native American Spirituality as well as various alternative perspectives such as existentialism or various new age movements.

Perhaps you are a parent, teacher, counselor, or health professional who wants to learn more about instilling hope in others. You will also benefit from reading our book. In particular, you may want to pay special attention to the sections on hope and hopelessness in children as well as those dealing with faith, attachment, mastery, and inspiration. Make it a goal to become a true "hope provider".

Perhaps you are a scholar or researcher looking for more information on the science of hope. We offer a new integrative theory as well as ideas relating to hope development and human evolution, religious and culture influences, the relationship between hope and faith, as well as the possible connections between hope and healing.