Raw Flesh and the Sea of Acid: Why the AwA Project Exists
I was born in Salvador, Bahia—a city where the sea is the oxygen of the soul. But for me, there was a time when the sea was my greatest torturer.
From childhood and through much of my adolescence, I faced a devastating skin disease. My body was a map of open wounds. I would scratch until I bled, in a desperate attempt to tear that agony away from me...
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The Bridge of Self-Love: Winning the Battle Between Who You Are and Who You Would Like to Be. How to Build Self-love
Many of us live under a dangerous illusion: the belief that the simple act of discovering our flaws is enough to correct them. We believe that mental insight is the cure. However, there is a vital chasm we often ignore in the journey of human development: the immense distance between self-knowledge and self-transformation.
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I Don't Prioritize Those Who Treat Me as an Option.
Self-respect is not about closing doors, but about choosing which ones deserve to remain open. It is about finding the wisdom to love without losing oneself, to protect oneself without becoming isolated, to remember that, in the end, we are all human, imperfect, and deserving of compassion.
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When the Mirror Hurts: Your Beauty Isn’t Fading — Your Attention Is
📍 Okay, so how do we actually do this? How do we put it into practice? It all comes down to choosing your doors wisely. This gives us a real practical way to move forward.
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You Are Not "Broken" - Anxiety: The Cost of Carrying a World That Doesn't Carry You Back
You live with a tight chest, a mind in endless rotation, and the constant feeling that if you stop, everything around you will collapse. The current culture calls this "anxiety" and tries to sell you a diagnosis as if it were a factory defect. But what if there is nothing wrong with you? What if this exhaustion is just a signal that you have taken on a weight that no human was ever designed to carry alone? The Pillar Profile: Why You Reached the Limit You learned early on how
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The Small Time Thieves: The 5 Habits That Fuel Our Daily Amnesia - Mindfulness in the Modern World
We wake up with the best intentions, but before lunch, we have already been swallowed by the machine. If we pause to analyze cold-heartedly how people operate today, it becomes clear that our energy is not stolen by great tragedies, but by a sequence of automated micro-habits. They seem harmless, but they are the true culprits keeping us anesthetized.
Here are the five invisible habits that sustain the autopilot of modern society:
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