Take Hold of Hope — Advent Meditation (Week 1)

With & For / Dr. Pam King

Dec 1 2024 • 9 mins

Hope is powerful. It’s more than a feeling. It’s a foundation for getting us through even the darkest of times. The season of Advent provides the opportunity to attune to hope, become aware of our deepest hopes and desires, and then align our lives to hope.

This December, we’re celebrating Advent with you by offering four guided meditations by Dr. Pam King—considering how to cultivate the Advent virtues of hope, peace, joy, and love into our lives this year.

We’d be grateful if you considered the Thrive Center in your year-end giving. To make a year-end tax-deductible gift, visit thethrivecenter.org/contribute.

Don't forget that Season 2 of With & For launches with all new episodes on January 6, 2025!

Show Notes

  • “Hope has the power to transform and involves our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.”
  • Take hold of hope with simple steps of attunement, awareness, alignment, and activation
  • Breath work
  • Attune, in order to feel sensations of hope in your body.
  • How are you experiencing or feeling hope in your body?
  • Notice, don’t judge.
  • What do the feelings of hope say about your deepest desires?
  • Where does your hope come from?
  • How can you align your day with your hope?
  • How can you align with hope to reflect God's desires for you?
  • What is one thing you can do today to lean forward into hope?

About the Thrive Center

About Dr. Pam King

Dr. Pam King is Executive Director the Thrive Center and is Peter L. Benson Professor of Applied Developmental Science at Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.  Follow her @drpamking.

About With & For

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  • Senior Director and Producer: Jill Westbrook
  • Operations Manager: Lauren Kim
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  • Consulting Producer: Evan Rosa

Special thanks to the team at Fuller Studio and the Fuller School of Psychology & Marriage and Family Therapy.