by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
Burnout is rarely a story about work. We speak of it as a matter of hours, of overload, of one project too many. Those things are real. But underneath the exhaustion there is usually something quieter and far more costly: the slow disappearance of the person, until...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Emotional Resilience
This is one of the most important truths in all developmental science, and it carries within it both a sobering recognition and a profound hope. The recognition is that so many of our adult patterns, our struggles, our ways of relating and protecting ourselves, are...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Emotional Resilience
The late-night scrolling we cannot seem to stop. The purchase we did not need and instantly regretted. The food we reached for, not from hunger, but from something harder to name. And then, afterward, the familiar voice: what is wrong with me? Why can’t I just...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Emotional Resilience
The first is a kind of grief, because we see clearly how profoundly an overwhelming experience can reshape the very organ through which we think, feel, and meet the world. The second, and more important, is a kind of hope, because the same science that reveals how...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Emotional Resilience
I had the events, of course. I could recite them: the abandonment, the abuse, the displacement, the years of fear and hunger. But events are not the same as understanding. For a long time, I carried my history as a kind of undifferentiated weight, a single heavy mass...