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5 strategies for cultivating hope this year

  • Written by Jacqueline S. Mattis, Dean of Faculty, Rutgers University - Newark
imageHow do we find hope when times are bleak?Peter Muhly/AFP via Getty Images

The raging coronavirus pandemic, along with political turbulence and uncertainty, have overwhelmed many of us.

From almost the start of 2020, people have been faced with bleak prospects as illness, death, isolation and job losses became unwelcome parts of our reality. On...

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