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From My Heart to Yours: My Letter from Love
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

From My Heart to Yours: My Letter from Love

When was the last time you genuinely directed words of love towards yourself? How can we tap into the transformative, liberating power of self-compassion? Embracing vulnerability can lead to profound healing and connection. Here’s my ”Letter from Love”. This is not just an exercise, but a return to the home within your heart. Try it out and discover that source of boundless love within you.

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Our First Book: You’re Great Enough
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Our First Book: You’re Great Enough

Get ready to solve one of the biggest problems we constantly carry within us: insecurity. It often hinders personal fulfillment and professional success, breeding self-doubt and the fear of being unmasked as an impostor. Our first publicly available book delves into seven common mental obstacles, providing practical, step-by-step exercises for breaking free and cultivating empowering habits.

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Intuition: Light and Darkness
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Intuition: Light and Darkness

Ever struggled to articulate a decision that felt intuitively right? Welcome to the enigmatic realm of intuition, both a source of wisdom and potential prejudice, that plays an integral role in our lives. In this blog, we explore ways to harness this hidden power and become aware of its hidden flaws.

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Crafting Your Idea of You
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Crafting Your Idea of You

Our self-concept is so fundamental that we don’t notice that we created it and we continue to create it all our lives. For those of us who are our own worst critics, we can expand our self-concept purposefully.

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Rise above Complaining and Blaming
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Rise above Complaining and Blaming

Oftentimes, complaining and blaming trap us in distress and provide only temporary relief to a difficult situation. This blog is about empowerment: accepting the uncontrollable while focusing on what we can do… beyond complaints and blame.

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Making Meditation Easy
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Making Meditation Easy

We’ve all heard that meditation brings happiness, inner peace, better focus and even better health. But many of us struggle to calm our minds, or avoid meditation altogether because it seems too challenging. Make it easy and fun with this simple shift.

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Tackling Anxiety with Emotional Hygiene
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Tackling Anxiety with Emotional Hygiene

Anxiety can present itself in several forms and tenses: stress about a present hurdle, fear for an undesirable future event or regret for something we did (or didn’t do) in the past. I was invited to Global University Systems' Mental Awareness Week Guest Speaker Event where I shared three practical tools that can help you tackle anxiety constructively. Here you can enjoy the engaging seminar and Q&A.

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Taking a Quality-Time Love Bath
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Taking a Quality-Time Love Bath

Loneliness is more than just a feeling. Recent research shows its surprising physical effects, rings the alarm on this growing global problem, and explains why being with others in person is crucial to brain function. Here’s my personal take.

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You’re not Good Enough, You’re Great Enough
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

You’re not Good Enough, You’re Great Enough

Have you ever felt you were not good enough? Not enough at work or not good enough as a friend? You’re an adult now, but you still feel you’re not enough for your parents? Or inadequate to raise your children? Or not enough to deserve happiness and love in your life? While the causes for not feeling good enough can vary a lot and often originate in our childhood, in this blog you can find a couple of alternative concepts that can help you let go of not-enough-ism altogether.

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Learning to Be Astonished
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Learning to Be Astonished

Awe is an important cousin to gratitude. When we look up from our daily grind and allow awe in, every moment of our lives appears miraculous, worth savouring and living. Learn to be astonished and life will wink at you.

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Bouncing Back from Shattered Dreams
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Bouncing Back from Shattered Dreams

How can you deal with the excruciating pain of seeing something you had high hopes on vanish? How can you live a life full of dreams, but still cope with the disheartening disappointment when they don’t materialise? Here’s how: focus on the game you’re playing, not on winning.

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Are People Doing the Best They Can?
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Are People Doing the Best They Can?

What are your thoughts when someone disappoints you? If you feel mired in resentment, consider adopting a different approach, supported by surprising social science research, to help you move forward: that person is actually doing the best they can.

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Learn from Your Emotions, there’s Nothing Irrational about Them
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Learn from Your Emotions, there’s Nothing Irrational about Them

Most of us have grown up in a culture that values rationality over emotions. As a consequence, we’ve overlooked emotional intelligence and haven’t paid much attention to developing powerful emotional tools. In this blog, you’ll find the spiritual and scientific premises to honour your emotions as much as you do your rationality, and to take them seriously and constructively.

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Designing Courage Into the Workplace
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Designing Courage Into the Workplace

Leaders across industries agree that we need courage in our workplaces. It’s impossible to express our full potential when we’re working in an atmosphere of fear and timidity. But how can you design courage into the workplace? It’s simple, but not easy.

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The Impostor Syndrome
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

The Impostor Syndrome

Does the impostor syndrome play a big role in your life? Or do you know someone whose life is being crippled by self-sabotage? Are you feeling guilty for what you have, unworthy of the praise you receive or anxious you’ll be exposed for the fake you are? Overcoming the impostor syndrome – a deeply engrained mental map – is a long but practicable journey and here are the first steps you can take.

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The Power of Gratitude
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

The Power of Gratitude

Gratitude has been called a natural anti-depressant, but many of us never learned how to tap into this powerful emotion. We know we should be grateful, but knowing that doesn’t really lift our spirits--it can even make us feel guilty. How do we get beyond the knowing, and allow true, joyful gratitude to arise in us?

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Unlearn Who You’re Not
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Unlearn Who You’re Not

Many contemporary coaching methods – actually, this dates back to Socrates – assume that we already have all the resources, answers and tools we need inside ourselves. So why don’t I always feel happy, calm, confident or resilient? Where are those tools when I need them most?

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Where Does Courage Come From?
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

Where Does Courage Come From?

President Zelensky reminds me of a soldier who stops a retreat by grabbing the fallen flag out of the mud, carrying it high and charging ahead in full voice. His courage inspires everyone to reverse direction and join him. Where does this courage come from? I found some clues in his past.

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Get Out of Your Head
Davide Pagnotta Davide Pagnotta

Get Out of Your Head

Have you ever felt like you need a holiday from your head? When your thoughts run wild, become oppressive, make you dysfunctional or even paralyse you? Here’s a powerful way to calm your mind and get energised at the same time.

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You Are Not Your Thoughts
Elisabeth Sperling Elisabeth Sperling

You Are Not Your Thoughts

It’s easy to take our thoughts to be our core self. After all, they are inside us, and no one else can hear them. But when we notice that we are not our thoughts, they lose their grip on us, and life gets easier.

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