Who am I and Why am I interested in Migration Processes?
I use the word migration to talk and think about all the processes in life that make us seek a new movement, a transformation, new attitudes, new perspectives.
A journey does this to us, but a new insight can invite change in a way that is just as or even more intense. Here, the invitation is to dive into our inner landscapes!
My name is Fénita Mahendra, Mozambican, of Indian descent. In 2013, I migrated to Brazil to pursue my Master's degree in Clinical Psychology, which I completed in 2015 at UNISINOS (RS). I currently continue to live in Brazil and have been deepening my studies of Eastern cultures and religions, now from a new place and with a new perspective. I have become interested in the difficulties and riches that intercultural encounters can bring us when we allow ourselves to be changed by them!
"Encounter serves to awaken us, to provoke estrangement as we experience variations in feeling and thinking that are not determined a priori. It is in encounters that the philosopher launches into the exercise of thought, since this is not the natural performance of a faculty, but an inventive force. Encounter exerts a kind of violence by forcing us to think, because it is something that shakes thought, makes it inevitable, a necessity." (DELEUZE, 1976)
On the intensities of those who remain
"Those were the ones who stayed.
Every small town has this: those who leave and those who stay.
I am one of those who left. Even if my father hadn't moved because of a new job, I would have left anyway. There, the only thing I could have done was the parish newsletter. And I realize that I, and everyone else who left, are admired for it: How brave! What's life like over there?
Of course, it takes a certain amount of courage to leave one place and start over somewhere else.
But it also takes courage to stay. After a while, I came to think that the truly brave are those who stay and face their family's wounds, the community's problems, and the lack of resources that every small town has. Those who carry the handles of the coffins we chose not to carry.
How much courage it takes to see the world! And how much courage it takes to make a single place your entire world."
Giovana Madalosso, *Batida Só*.
Mournings of leaving, mournings of staying
Every journey, whether geographical or subjective, forces us to deal with the pain of losing all the possibilities we leave behind: relationships, places where we belong, the comfort of feeling understood without much effort.
In the same way, those who have ended up putting down roots experience the grief of giving up their wings, or of feeling that they never had the chance to use them.
I invite you to come and look inward, and at the possibilities that reside within your own personality, both to put down roots and to fly!
Our Services
Online Psychotherapy- Jungian Analysis
Individual Sessions for Adults.
I work with the Jungian Approach. In our sessions, we seek a dialogue with what one thinks, with what one feels, and we also seek to look at dreams, as small or great clues for weaving together paths, creations, experiments, and healing that speak to the desire and the fulfillment of the singular meaning of each One.
Couple Therapy
Self-awareness for More Conscious Relationships.
Psychotherapy focused on offering tools and support to help couples clarify and improve their relationships.