Author Archives: Janaina Mahe

Emotion Is Energy: Why Couples Disconnect — and How Flow Restores Connection

Most couples don’t break down because they don’t love each other. They break down because what they feel doesn’t move. In my work with couples, I often explain emotions in a simple way: Emotion is energy in motion. When an emotion is allowed — felt in the body, named honestly, expressed safely — it moves. […]

A conceptual overview of Innate Entitlement Framework™ Embodied Boundaries, Nervous System Achievement™, and Existential Presence

About the Sky in This Image The sky in this illustration is not simply a background — it represents the entire field in which human development unfolds. Its soft purple–gold horizon symbolises the original receiving state of prenatal life, where existence is held without earning, effort, or separation. This sky also reflects the body’s most […]

How the Lived Experience Arc Reveals the Roots of the Innate Entitlement Framework™

Before exploring the developmental theory itself, it helps to understand the experiential foundations that shaped it. The spiral you see above reflects the recurring emotional, relational, and existential patterns that emerged across years of lived experience and clinical observation — the patterns that ultimately crystallised into the Innate Entitlement Framework™. ⸻ Why This Diagram Has […]

Confessions of a Counselor – Chapter 4 The Smile That Opened Every Door… and the Horizon That Changed Everything

I’ve always believed that life leaves us clues — little signs that we’re moving in the right direction, even when everything feels impossible. And nothing felt more impossible than the moment I first decided I wanted to go to London. Because the truth is simple and brutal: I didn’t have a penny. Not for the […]

Chapter 3 – Counsellor in Swansea | Resilience, Surrender & Therapy

  “In the hush of that airport bathroom, I stared into the mirror and surrendered—I trusted life to guide me.”   The second flight of my life was the one that changed everything. The first had been a short hop across Brazil, no more than half an hour. But this time, I was stepping into […]

Chapter 2: I Had to Leave to Find Myself-A story of resilience, empathy, and stepping into the unknown

There wasn’t one single moment that made me leave Brazil. It was a collection of moments, feelings, and deep truths that built up inside me like waves — until they could no longer be ignored. But there was one moment when I knew: I can’t live here. Not like this. Not as myself. One of […]

✨ The Most Important Relationship You’ll Ever Have — A Therapist’s Reflection on Self-Esteem, Self-Love, and Emotional Healing

When I work with my clients — whether they come to therapy for anxiety, depression, stress, low self-esteem, relationship issues, or simply wanting to reconnect with themselves — there is one deep truth I always return to: the most important relationship you will ever have is the relationship you have with yourself. The way you […]

“Chapter One: Trust, Presence, and the Journey from Brazil to London: My Journey of Mindfulness, Resilience & Radical Self-Care”

When I was growing up, my environment was unpredictable. There were times when it was very, very good — full of warmth, love, and laughter. And there were other times when it was deeply painful and chaotic. In that environment, I learned to sense people deeply, to read the energy in the room, and to […]

Fear and anxiety can enhance responses to the experiences of pain

Accordingly to a review of published studies, one of the consensus highlighting the significance of chronic pain in the UK, suggests that up to 8 million people in the UK live with chronic pain (htt://tinyurl.com/z95wqoy). Pain represents a cascade of physiological, immunological, cognitive and behavioural effects, with an important emotional/affective component. In addition, psychological factors can […]

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