THE AILMENT WITH NO NAME — BUT WITH AN ADDRESS
When anxiety stops being yours and starts belonging to the time you live in Close your eyes for a moment. Not to relax. To think. Think about the last Sunday afternoon you spent completely empty — no…
PRESENT IN EVERYTHING. ABSENT FROM YOURSELF.
You got home. You sat down. You put your phone on the table — or maybe you didn’t, you kept it in your hand just in case. Someone spoke to you. You answered. But you weren’t there.…
YOU ARE NOT WHO STAYS SILENT — BUT EVERYTHING YOU BUILT TO SURVIVE THE SILENCE
Think for a moment about the last time you had something to say — and didn’t say it. Not because the words weren’t there. Not because the moment was wrong. But because, somewhere between the thought and…
THE GHOST MANAGER
When the absence of one person reveals the structural fragility of an entire organization — ✦ — Think for a moment: what if you arrived at work tomorrow and that person — the one everyone consults, who…
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…
