I was on the phone with my mum last Saturday while she was taking a walk with my dad. Simultaneously, I was combing my hair and doing my...

My mother is a big reason I do the work that I do. Some years ago, when she got a deeper understanding of my professional mission,...

Sometimes I wonder if I do enough to speak up in the presence of injustice. When I teach people assertiveness skills, boundaries to...

Celebrating stuff is my thing. I celebrate a professional success, such as a new client's contract, as well as I celebrate a residency...

I have noticed that from time to time I forget about what it means to me to feel stress. Not because I am never stressed, but because I...

Difficult, uncomfortable and emotionally loaded conversations are everywhere. Oftentimes what makes us worried is not only how to go...

I still remember a day during high school in Italy. I was part of a very strict classical studies school, in the years of ginnasio and I...

Teaching assertive communication, and also mental health first aid, the recurring topic we get to is listening skills. I have done a few...

Written by Alessandra Patti This image was me 8 years ago, going to my psychological therapy during my lunch break, in the middle of the...

If you are used to believe that other people’s needs come first, it will be hard to recognize your own needs. You may see in yourself, as...

Since the coronavirus crisis increased and rapidly evolved, I have this constant feeling of a chapter never written before. A chapter...

Today's society, in my opinion, has a characteristic: short-term memory. In the past, when I had an achievement, I would remember it for...

In the past, I had tried several times to write down New Year's Resolutions. They never worked. I give you an example of one of those I...

There is something that always strikes me when the Autumn months come, here in Switzerland. Apparently, the suicide rate goes up, and the...

Do you like your CV? How does it make you feel when you introduce your profession to someone new? Do you feel somehow bothered, or cannot...

Doing the work I do, I reflect a lot about stress and about time. I recently read an interesting study about time. The article is based...

The thing with assertiveness in relationships is that timing in communicating your feelings is tricky. If we use nonviolent communication...

I have been thinking several times to write about this topic, and finally I managed to put my thoughts together on this one. Some of the...

I feel so proud of myself, like a kid. I should call my mum right now to tell her," LOOK, LOOK, how good I was!!" I feel that anything is...

Life allows us to practice the art of assertiveness every day. How? By putting pushy salespeople in front of us. Pushy attitude is not to...