YOU NEVER LOVED THE OTHER PERSON. YOU LOVED THE PORTRAIT YOU MADE OF THEM.
And when the portrait crumbles, you call it an ending. But what ends — the love, or the illusion that lasted far too long? Think about the day you fell in love. Not the day you met…
THE MIRROR NOBODY ASKED TO CARRY
There was a girl who learned to see herself through the reflection of the eyes of those who raised her. There was no mirror on the wall. There was a face. A way of looking. A tone…
YOU GOT PROMOTED. WHY DOES IT FEEL LIKE YOU’VE FORGOTTEN EVERYTHING YOU KNEW?
Picture this. A software engineer spends five years being precisely what her organization needs: sharp, systematic, someone who turns ambiguity into architecture. She thinks in structures. She solves with logic. The environment around her is predictably challenging…
YOU DON’T NEED TO BE MANAGED — YOU NEED TO BE INHABITED
What no one tells you about the brain, stress, and the art of existing without betraying yourself There is a question that almost no one voices out loud, but that the body asks constantly, in silence, from…
WHAT YOU KNOW MAY BE KEEPING YOU FROM LIVING
Take a moment. Not with an abstract idea — think of something concrete you know. A conviction you have carried for years, perhaps decades. Something you use to make decisions, to judge situations, to explain to the…
WHAT THE LAW CANNOT SEE AND ORGANIZATIONS PRETEND NOT TO KNOW: THE ILLNESS THAT FUNCTIONS
Burnout is just the surface. Psychological illness at work has many faces that NR-1, Law 14,831/2024, and Law 15,377/2026 still cannot reach — and that organizations pretend not to see. By Marcello de Souza Think of someone…
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE LIFE INSIDE ME WHEN I STAY CLOSE TO YOU?
Over the past ten years, I have worked with executives who make million-dollar decisions with surgical precision — yet inside a corrosive relationship or a toxic strategic partnership, they lost, without realizing it, the ability to recognize…
WHAT YOU SAID YOU WANTED — AND WHY YOU STILL DON’T HAVE IT
On the silent paradox between declared desire and real choice Have you ever felt entirely convinced you wanted something — a change, a new direction, a different product, a different way of working — and then, when…
THE SPACE BETWEEN US
Reflections on Presence, Connection, and What Happens in the Silence of Life as a Couple There is a way to destroy a relationship without ever raising your voice. Without betraying. Without doing anything that could be pointed…
YOU DIDN’T DESTROY WITH WHAT YOU SAID.YOU DESTROYED WITH WHAT YOU CHOSE NOT TO FEEL.
What destroys a relationship doesn’t begin in a fight. It begins in the silence before the word — and in the distance no one names. Understand why. – By Marcello de Souza Think about the last time…
