Hope is a skill | Katie Kelly Dorn | TEDxFargo

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How do we find hope when life brings us the unthinkable—something we cannot control, change, or fix? We may try to muscle through grief, anxiety, trauma, or heartbreak, but difficult emotions don't disappear. They often surface as anxiety, numbness, avoidance, low motivation, or the need to control. When we shut out pain, we often lose the ability to feel joy. Katie Kelley Dorn learned this through her work as a licensed therapist and school counselor—but most profoundly as a mother of seven. Drawing on the loss of her beloved sister Ginny, welcoming Ginny's three children into her family, and helping thousands of students and families, Katie shares what she discovered when powering through—and trying to fix everything—stopped working. Some of life's hardest realities cannot be changed. But surrender is not giving up. It is releasing our grip on what we cannot control, processing what hurts, and turning toward the next step we can take. Unconditional love gives us the safety to fac

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