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Scenario

How families use future hope to avoid present reality

My family keeps making plans for 'when things get better' but we never talk about what if they don't, and I'm starting to feel like our hope has become a way of avoiding dealing with what's actually happening right now.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Hope has become a shared defense against uncertainty rather than a grounded orientation toward possibility.

Your guide for this
Laozi
Laozi works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Hope as temporal orientation?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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