by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
When I first stepped into the world of coaching, I did not yet understand how much I was about to learn, not only about others, but about the very functioning of the human being. The first training I undertook was trauma-informed, and it was there that I first...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
It comments, plans, worries, compares, defends. It tells you who you are and who you should be. It rehearses conversations that have not happened and replays ones that have. It is so constant, so continuous, so woven into your experience of being awake, that you...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
Not what you should want. Not what would be reasonable. Not what others expect of you. But what you, in this actual moment, genuinely need, in your body, in your heart, in the deepest part of you that rarely gets consulted. For many people, this question produces a...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
Waiting to be reassured. Waiting to be told they did nothing wrong. Waiting for the comfort that did not come, the attention that was elsewhere, the safety that felt uncertain. This younger self is not a metaphor, exactly, and not a memory, exactly. It is something...
by Sónia Borges | Jul 11, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
You wake as one thing to your partner, soft or distant, present or preoccupied. You become a parent over breakfast, patient or frayed. You shift into the professional self on the commute, assembling the competence the day will require. At work you are an employee to...
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