What stories about age are we carrying?
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March 22, 2026
Current Themes
A Marathon between Rain, Blood and Women's Day
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March 22, 2026What changes? And what remains?
In the last week of the year, I had a meeting with dear friends. One of those meetings that only happen at this time, when we haven't seen each other for a long time. A friend welcomed us to her new house, telling us about the move and presenting us with a table full of delicacies to enjoy. The view was breathtaking: a landscape known to all of us. We grew up in that country town, we looked at those places countless times and, still, from up there, it was a beautiful surprise....
February 20, 2026What blocks movement?
I was reading a chapter of a book about Compassion-Focused Therapy when I came across several ideas that caught my attention. Some of them made me think about the clinic, others made me reflect on situations in my own life. But, among all the concepts presented, there was a phrase that resonated inside me for longer than I expected, as if I had found a place to live, insisting on being revisited....
November 24, 2025When a Skill Surprises
You know, I have a problem that sometimes makes me feel embarrassed: I forget to buy a gift in advance to go to a birthday party. (…) while I was coordinating the DBT skills training, I realized that I could use one of the emotional regulation skills: Anticipation*. (…) By doing this, I was able to see more clearly what was hindering me and, thus, accept that this is, in fact, a difficulty. (…) Some skills are not just for solving problems, but for reminding us how we want to act....
November 14, 2025Ending cycles with love: a look from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
This last week I experienced many cycle endings up close and what I mostnoticed was the great presence of love. We had a loving farewell to a teammate and I accompanied dear friends saying goodbye to loved ones: father, former therapist and sister. Being so close to this pain made me remember my goodbyes andthe immensity of love and pain that were present there. Closing hurts. It hurts because there was meaning. I’ve always carried this phrase with me: “The size of pain is the size of love.” So I bring here the contribution that the practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) can bring us in these moments....
November 06, 2025About quality of presence
Quality of presence has to do with feeling heard even without saying anything....
October 08, 2025When disappointment generates the sense of betrayal: a look from IBCT
In love relationships, the vulnerability of connecting deeply with each other involves an expectation of care, validation and safety. When we make room for the bond, we trust that the partnership will not cause us intentionally. When this expectation is violated, the emotional impact can be lived as a true betrayal....
September 29, 2025Yellow September, DBT and the role of family members: Taking care of those who take care also saves lives.
Yellow September invites us to talk about emotional pain, psychic suffering and the importance of preventing suicide with more empathy, information and action. In this scenario, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) stands out as an evidence -based approach that supports not only people who suffer, but also to their families - especially when we talk about adolescents and adults with intense emotional deregulation, self -harm or suicidal thoughts....
September 15, 2025The power of mindfulness in interpersonal relationships
There is no way to escape writing about the last weekend. Dear Manuella O'Connel was with us at CEFI leading the mindfulness workshop in interpersonal relations. It was an entire Saturday and an intense Sunday morning in practices. I am sure I left different from how I entered. This means being present in what I think, I feel or what happens to. My surrounding, without clinging, allowing thoughts and emotions to pass like clouds in the sky or waves at sea. Contextual therapies, mindfulness is an essential tool for change. The therapist exercises the presence to choose more appropriate interventions, observe the patient clearly or teach the patient himself to observe. This posture makes mindfulness not just a technique but a context of transformation. The news that the Argentine psychologist brought us was to use mindfulness as a vehicle of change! That is, use this attention to the relationship to transform the patient's relational standards. No matter what is so much "right" or "wrong" to say, but how the other's words resonate in me. I learned that if I am indeed connected with that relationship, in the "me, now," I can capture what can often not be said by the patient, and this enhances intervention deeply transformatively. It requires FAP (Functional Analytical Therapy) motto: consciousness, courage and love. When we speak from this posture, the connection with the other is inevitable. And how beautiful it would be if we could bring this to all our relationships, not just like therapists, but as people. This learning has touched something very valuable in me: the desire for peace between people and in the world. It was by this ideal that I chose to study journalism - I wanted to contribute to a fairer society. And after disappointment with the profession, psychology has opened me new ways to improve people's lives, albeit more individually. Psychotherapy need not be just intellectual. Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - DBT) already described the dialectic between rational and emotional mind, found in the wise mind. Being before the other in full attention is at the same time challenging and transformative. It is as if each silence gained meaning, and each word would finally come from the heart....
September 10, 2025