Hope Perlman M.Ed, LMSW

About

Hope Perlman, LMSW, is a therapist, writer, and humorist. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and daughters, and writes about success, failure, and dealing with life at Unmapped Country: The Flip Side of Failure.

Recent Posts

Embrace a Theme for Success

A Personal Perspective: A theme word is not the same as a resolution. Having a theme for the year is setting an intention rather than a resolution.

Center Yourself for Success in Therapy—and in Life

What do you need to have or do to flourish? Tune into yourself, get centered in the present, and figure out what your first next step should be.

Recovering From Total Failure and Demoralization

A Personal Perspective: Life is what we do every day, every moment. It’s particularly important to remember to focus on the journey when the outcome desired may be quite a long time coming.

No Bad Parts: Key to Success

I suspect it is difficult for many of us to believe we have a whole, undamaged Self because we are so used to feeling that we are flawed at the core; so used to striving.

Success in AP2: It's More Than Coping, but Coping Is Great

Rest can be as accessible as a sigh. At any time, a deep breath provides an instant of rest. It’s not necessary to wait for a vacation to rest. Rest a little bit every day.

Musings on Uncertainty and the Anxiety-Worry Habit

Anxiety and worry create a feedback loop that can be broken. It is not necessary to worry.

How to Cope With Life's Impermanence

Attachment is what relationships are made of, but so are change and impermanence. To successfully navigate life, we have to come to terms with this paradox.

Have We Resolved Social Work's Identity Crisis?

How ironic I find it that after my personal professional identity crisis, I have joined a profession going through it. Except I just don't think it's true, despite what they say.

Social Work's Identity Crisis, and Mine

Tikkun Olan. This is a Jewish value: Make the world a little better any way you can. Maybe by becoming a therapist, I will help.

Tips for Success From the Color of the Year

It takes strength and optimism to crawl forward in the dark and believe in the light at the end, and it takes strength and optimism to look at what’s in the tunnel, too.