Since 2012, as a doctor, I have been helping hundreds of people every day to have better emotional health, but I wanted more and I knew that I had a calling from God that told me to seek more and that I was capable of helping people in a deeper way.

As a specialist in Psychiatry with a Master's Degree in Health Sciences and more than 30 articles published in annals of psychiatry and neuropsychiatry events, I noticed that just prescribing medications was not enough, there had to be more changes so that you could truly reach your maximum level of well-being and balance in life. I was dissatisfied with all of this, so I moved from Brazil to the USA, where I dedicated myself and took several refresher courses: four at Harvard University, two in Updates in Psychiatry, one in Neuropsychiatry and one in Lifestyle Medicine. I also participated in one of the most recognized courses in the history of Yale University on the Science of Well-Being and the Happiness Lab, in addition to countless others associated with human behavior and brain function, such as Dream Builder Coaching from the Brave Thinking Institute, which helped me develop mindset and brain neuroplasticity tools not only to help my patients but to help myself, since now I was the one who was experiencing many difficult situations, just like all of us immigrants living in a different country, with another culture, language and without the support of family or friends nearby.

Experiencing daily challenges as a recent divorcee after 12 years of marriage, I became a single mother, taking care of my two young children alone, Leonardo, 10 years old, and Lara, 4 years old. My life was turned even more upside down after the loss of my mother, my Ritinha, who passed away exactly one year after I moved to the USA. My world only seemed to be falling apart more and more and my dream of living in the USA seemed more and more like a nightmare every day.