Sips of Cha.

Personal Reflections

My thoughts on life, personal journey, experiences and self-development.

Emotional Profile

This week I watched a video by Dr. Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor, explaining four emotional profiles…

Reviewing Values

One of these days, while I was writing in my journal and thinking about what I want to work on and focus on in 2026, I realized that after three years my values had changed...

Time Blindness

I’ve always had a strange relationship with time, and some time ago I learned a term that describes well the way I’ve always felt about it…

A Bitter Truth

I’m a Virgo, and as a true Virgo — detailed and observant — when I decide to unleash my surgical honesty… stand back, because the cut is precise...

A Day's Work on the Farm

My experience working on a friend’s farm made me reflect on the contrast between urban life and rural life…

Crossing the Valley of Despair

I'm going through the valley of despair and I decided to create an experiment to help me cross it...

A Year of New Beginnings

A little about what this year has been like for me and the biggest lesson I've learned from it...

How Emotions Are Made: Bridges Between Neuroscience and Spirituality

How the theory of constructed emotion, presented in "How Emotions Are Made" by Lisa Feldman Barrett, brings neuroscience and spirituality closer together...

The Language of Canine Love

My story with canine love — the grief and the rebirth of a bond I learned to nurture since moving to New Zealand...