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I have never had trouble connecting with people, on the contrary. I have always liked people, and as years go by, I realise that even if you like people, there are different frequencies between us and not all of us vibrate at the same time. Nevertheless, I have always tried to put myself in the place of the other people, in life but also in my job, in which I think it is fundamental to always know how to be in the other people’s shoes.

This book of Meritxell García shows us this: the importance of teaching the little ones empathy. We will meet Mimi, who has holed socks and her mother accompanies her to buy new ones. She picks ones with centipede drawings but what Mimi does not know is that they are magical and will allow her to put herself in her beloved ones’ shoes thanks to the children’s game of putting other people’s shoes on. What will Mimi discover about the feelings of the others around her and, even her own, thanks to the magic socks? A simple way to be able to feel what others feel in the same situation. How I wish I had those socks!!!

Empathy is the invisible thread that connects us as people, it is seeing the world with other people’s eyes. It is a value that you can teach, pass on, and therefore as parents we should try to instil our children empathy early on, like we teach them how to eat or sleep, because life with empathy will always be easier since it is a two-way path. The one who is empathic feels lucky to know how to see what others do not, and the one to receive empathy because there is someone who tries to understand them. I am sure this way we would grow up in a world a little bit better. So, I encourage everyone to read this book with the little ones at home. An ideal present for this Christmas, so that all of us can be a little bit more empathic this 2022.

This week there has been a full moon. The Moon has always been magical for me, and I could spend hours watching the sky decorated with stars and dominated by the Moon that goes from waxing crescent to waning crescent depending on the day, like us, that sometimes we feel smaller and other times bigger. Stages, phases. The lunar magic is as old as humanity. Since women looked up to the sky and comprehended that her cycles were equate to those of the Moon and saw the power and the creator capacity that had at hand.

Keyla Missen, after taking our hearts with The modern magic manual, translated to two languages (Portuguese and Polish), comes back with this clear, simple, and practical guide to get started in this lunar magic with effective rituals that will help in our personal development: meditations to invoke a favor of our celestial sister, moon baths that regenerate us physical, mental, and spiritually. We will discover how to use the lunar gems which are catalysts par excellence. Powers from the nature that can play in our favor in a lot of occasions if we know how.

The Moon is magical and when we learn to channel its energy, we are nearer ourselves, without categorizing or putting labels upon us, we are closer to our dreams, of what we long for, which we always see unattainable, like the moon, but maybe the important thing is not whether we are near or far of something but comprehend that we can get there using its power. The knowledge does not occupy space so this guide can only help us get better.

I’m very excited to write this blog because it is about one of those books that brings positive energy. “You Will Love Yourself Above Anything Else” by Sonia Rico starts with a big question: how would your life be if instead of learning to fulfill the expectations of others, we had learned how to love ourselves above all else? Have you ever thought about it? Sometimes I would like to open the window and scream: I LOVE MYSELF!!!

Sonia has created a decalogue about self-esteem that transforms the 10 divine commandments in 10 commandments of happiness. Starting with “Love to yourself”, which is the philosophic bone of this book. Each commandment brings us discoveries and interesting challenges to get out of our comfort zone: “You will not deprive yourself of your dreams”, “You will not make promises to yourself in vain”, “You will not be hostage of your beliefs”.

A therapeutic and practical book so that your self-esteem, which is the motor of our lives, helps us to achieve being ok here and now, and being fine with others. A method of empowerment to gain health, confidence, motivation, creativity, and success in every area of your life. A short book that includes a QR with different meditation techniques and which maybe can be a guide for many of us, that looking at how the world moves forward, we are lost in a mare magnum of bad news that do not let us enjoy the path.

As time goes by, I notice more and more that THE POWER OF WORDS is one of the most important superpowers that we could have, but as any hero has this power in Marvel, it goes unnoticed, but I can assure you that it is a basic power in the society that we live in.

How and when you say things can change your day, change a moment or even a relationship. Nevertheless, when we are kids, they teach us how talk, to put a word after another, but no one teach us to communicate correctly what we want to say and that sometimes, it is not easy to explain. If they taught us this superpower when we are young, thing would be better and it is what Puri Heranández, writer and marvelous illustrator, has done in her book “Sofia and The Wild Word”.

Sofia starts the day in a bad mood and every hour that passes it gets worse. She has so much anger that when she gets home, the little Sofia lets a wild, dark, terrible word slip through her mouth, and it grows without control and destroys drawings, birthdays and hurts her best friends. How can this situation stop? In this beautiful story we will be able to see that even the wild words can be tamed with calm and measured words that will be able to redirect situations that seemed impossible to solve. 

An endearing story with beautiful illustrations that opens to us the door to the world of communication and language to be able to always use the right word at the right time. It is not easy, but it can be learned. Let’s start with this book. An amazing present for this Christmas.

The personal growth is in vogue nowadays. As an agent I have managed the rights of a lots of books of this topic that I have used a lot to improve my relationship with feelings, with the world, with myself and with the surroundings. For this reason, even if there are still people who considers personal growth are charlatan talks, that all they say are evidence, I must confess that for me it has been one of the most valuable tools to be able to keep going through life, that as it keeps going, it has ups and downs, and that everyone should know how to face, and most of the times to face them alone.

Almost everything about personal growth has been told: the mindfulness, happiness, luck, storytelling… It’s about storytelling that Gabriel García de Oro tells us about, he has been able to turn around this concept in his book Story Coaching published by RBA. García de Oro shows us the power that stories have. He states that all of us are made of stories, we explain the past in stories, we are explaining the here and now with stories and we project ourselves in the future by stories. García de Oro says thinks this is a marvelous thing because we can use the tools that scriptwriters, writers, storytellers in favour of our own story. Trying to detect the stories that work, and if we know why they work, we will be able to apply this technique to make our story work, the one that gets us closer to our goals, to our purpose, our intents.

This is not another book, our lives are our stories that unchain every day, every month, every year, and if we are able to shape them, we can try to guide the to the end that we most desire. A book with a different point of view, creative, with which you can work in personal growth like an approach to access the world, as we all have something to tell and our story matters.