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23/06/2026

I could almost write a book about what I'm saying here.
Today I will choose not to.

An Homage to Love.❤️‍🔥
An Homage to Life.🌀

João,

At Retiro do Sol, May 2026. 🌞

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19/05/2026

My most difficult men’s retreat as a facilitator.
During this men’s retreat, I found myself in a phase of my life where I was asked to look within at all the wounds I thought were healed — I was asked to truly show up.
Can I show up if everything is falling apart?
Can I hold the space while what I really need is to be held?
Can I sit with all the grief of the parts I need to let go of?
Can I stay even when I want to run away?
Can I look into all the mirrors being placed in front of me?
To feel broken is ok.
To feel lost is ok.
To feel sad is ok.
To feel anger is ok.
All of you is welcome.
This is the path of the warrior — not the man who fights the world, but the man who has the courage to face himself.
The warrior learns that true strength is not found in control, but in presence. In staying open when every instinct says to close.
And this is where the sovereign is born.
Not through perfection, but through responsibility. Through the willingness to sit on the throne of your own life with honesty, humility, and heart.
A grounded man is not the one who has no wounds.
He is the one who no longer runs from them.
Sometimes leadership is not about having all the answers.
Sometimes leadership is simply the willingness to remain present in the fire — and let it transform you.

Men's Retreat - Retiro do Sol 🌞 2026

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27/04/2026

“You need to grow into becoming the man that your younger version would run to for protection.”

I don´t even know how to start this- but let´s do it.
João. 34 laps around the Sun.
My parents got divorced when I was 8. I asked my mum to divorce my father, due to the constant abuse inside the house. I remember grabbing my father´s legs to stop him from hitting my mother. I remember the screams, the fights, the doors closing, me trying to enter their room very carefully, afraid of what that might trigger.
I remember the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the pure unsafety and chaos.
With the divorce came the parental shared weekends - My father would tell me that my mum was a w***e, that she didn´t want to give birth, that I was not wanted - Reminder, I was a kid, listening to all this.
My father had a son from a previous marriage who would also spend the weekends with me.
And then my life changed even more. I was sexually abused by my own brother for years.
When I was 16, my father tried to hit me. My sentence was - “If you touch me, I will kill you right here.”
Left and never came back.
And then, the numbness came. I did everything trying to get rid of the pain. Depression was real. Void was real. Su***de came to mind many times. And I tried it. Couldn´t do it. I knew that something had to change.
For many years, I went to psychotherapy, which brought me a deep understanding of the mind. Attachment styles, Love Languages, core wounds… Tried to reframe my past, but I was not really able to integrate. I didn´t cry for years. I was tired of feeling like that.
I was the man who was smiling, ready to help others, but… Inside, I was dying.
Surf, connection to Nature, and meditation were really my pillars, for many years, while I was trying to make sense of things. And I did it. Got out of the dark place where my mind was trapped in.
Moving on… 2022. SacredSons.
I knew that I had to face my shadows like never before.
My first check-in at EMX (Embodied Masculine Experience) was - “I feel unsafe with men.”
—— CONTINUES BELOW —— 🔽🔽🔽🔽

30/03/2026

Your mind tells stories, but your nervous system tells the truth.
Slowing down means that the silence becomes louder - the stories, the pain from the past, the suffering, the habits or patterns.
But it also means that you can become aware of what needs to change within.
Slowing down means that you will have to face yourself. To learn how to love again, to learn how to stand up, leaning in connection.
You will be faced with the parts of yourself that are more difficult to be loved. To receive.
Slowing down means that you will need to rewrite your nervous system.
The nervous system will give you input and you need to distinguish between the stories of the past or reality.

That’s why I go Inward. Not to close myself, but to understand what is happening.
Learning (even more) how to pause before reacting.
Learning how to stay in stillness.
How to feel safe and create safety.
How to hold without control.
How to create without destroying.
How to show up when I’m down.
Not hiding. Not lying. Not trying to change emotions.
No. Not that.
I’m sitting with (all of) it.
That’s how I can understand - the mind, the body, the chaos, the uncertainty, the fear, the guilt, the not feeling worthy, the stress, the patterns (...) to be really capable of seeing the Love, Joy, Contentment, the Stillness, the Silence.
That’s where I wanna be.
I am.

Amsterdam, 30th of March, 2026.

Joao,
🌀🐺✨❤️‍🔥

02/03/2026

Here and Now.

🌊☯️🔥💫📿❤️‍🔥

09/12/2025

Muitas vezes quis desistir de Medicina Tradicional Chinesa. Por ser dificil, por não me sentir adequado, preparado e por situações fortes emocionais de grande desapego, aprendizagem e crescimento.
Chegava atrasado, faltava, sentia-me constantemente “overwhelmed”, incompreendido e até, muitas vezes rejeitado.
Depois, comecei a perceber que estava em “victim mindset”, onde tudo me corria mal e havia sempre desculpas da minha parte, em vez de tomada de responsabilidade real pelas minhas acções e decisões.
Amava cada matéria e ao mesmo tempo sentia-me paralizado pelos exames, por ter que estudar e, por tantas vezes, procrastinar até ao limite máximo.
Só no 4º ano (sim, foram precisos 3 anos - 2023) é que senti que houve um click. A maneira como olhava o mundo e a MTC mudou, por algum motivo que ainda hoje tento analisar. Não houve um “uau moment” ou um “breakthrough”. Acho que me cansei de mim próprio e de me sentir no mesmo estado , constantemente. Comecei a estudar mais. A mostrar mais interesse. Ler e fazer mais perguntas. Chegar-me à frente e colocar-me em grandes momentos de desconforto. Pedir desculpa.

Para além de sentir que me tornei um bom aprendiz, sinto que me tornei um ainda melhor Homem.

Esta viagem à China não foi só uma viagem à China. Dei por mim a chorar antes de ir, durante e ao vir desse país maravilhoso pelo qual me apaixonei.

Uma viagem transformadora, onde aprendi imenso, imenso, imenso (…) Onde conheci pessoas e lugares igualmente maravilhosos. Colegas, professores, assistentes (…) Estou a escrever isto e estou a sorrir feito parvinho.

Eu sou grato à Vida. A Deus.
((CONTINUA EM BAIXO NOS COMENTÁRIOS ⬇️⬇️⬇️))

12/10/2025

Eu poderia escrever um texto como normalmente escrevo. Hoje não.
Hoje deixo isto aqui para me lembrar do caminho que fiz até aqui. Para chegar onde estou.

Tenho mesmo muito orgulho em mim. Sem culpa, sem vergonha, sem engrandecer do ego. Carrego isto comigo, no meu coração.
Consegui. Consegui.
🐦‍🔥✨

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@ Retiro da Lua 2025. 🌕

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