HOPE in rainy Rochdale, cruising on a supermarket skateboard and the optimism with donuts!

But First Me

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Anirban talks about how learning to do a flick grab on his Asda skateboard built his resilience. Hope is actually developed through discomfort and adversity. Being part of the Happy Place festival in Chiswick House with Fearn Cotton has increased our personal hopefulness. Positive emotions expand our minds, in turn, increasing our sense of connectedness to our community both online and in West London. Hope is a way of thinking, anyone can learn to be optimistic. Mary Ellen simplifies the 3P’s of the pessimistic perspective using 3 delicious donut puns, so you can understand and use it, without your eyes glazing over! Her sweet puns to dispute your bad habits of thinking are: 1. Donut be so hard on yourself 2. Donut fear the future. 3. Keep your eye on the donut not on the hole! Hope is also a character strength. Is it in your top 10? See link below for Strengths Survey for both adults & kids, it takes 10 minutes. Anirban feels hopeful that men CAN be more emotionally flexible, and that happiness and wellbeing doesn’t need to be for women only. Remember Brim Full of Asha, the 90’s indie hit or dancing to the Norman Cook remix? Mary learns that title has nothing to do with ashtrays or spliffs! Embedded in the immigrant story is hope, Anirban recalls his parents coming to UK in 1972 from Kolkata for a better life. Mary Ellen wonders if optimism is in her Irish blood. Her ancestors set sail over many generations to many destinations. Most known is the exodus of one million people from Ireland during An Gorta Mór (famine). BOOK references: Atlas of the Heart by Brène Brown Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman Fall Off, Get Back On, Keep Going by Clare Balding ⁠ Films Milk 2008 The Shawshank Redemption 1994

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