Emily Esfahani Smith

Author and Doctoral Student in Psychology, Washington, DC.

Emily Esfahani Smith is the author of The Power of Meaning (2017) and a doctoral student in clinical psychology. She lives in Washington, DC.

Written by Emily Esfahani Smith

Photo of a person with a megaphone raising a fist below a building with green shutters and a red banner.

Hope is the antidote to helplessness. Here’s how to cultivate it

If hopelessness is learned, then it can be unlearned: how groundbreaking studies paved the way to help cultivate hope

by Emily Esfahani Smith