Gabriel Gonsalves is a Heart Leadership & Mastery Coach, spiritual teacher, and artist dedicated to helping people awaken their hearts, live authentically, and lead with purpose and joy.
The Invisible Barrier Blocking You from Love
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The Feeling Heart
Gabriel Gonsalves is a Heart Leadership & Mastery Coach, spiritual teacher, and artist dedicated to helping people awaken their hearts, live authentically, and lead with purpose and joy.
This week, I found myself scrolling through old photos—a digital archaeology of friendships past. There I was at university, arms draped around people whose names I’ve forgotten. Wedding photos with couples I haven’t spoken to in years. Group shots from film sets in LA, beach gatherings in South Africa, dinner parties in Caracas—a trail of connections that once felt essential, now dissolved into polite social media likes. The ache surprised me. Not grief, but a quieter wondering about why...
Dear Reader, The Camino has a way of telling the truth without words. Step after step, it has shown me the difference between the pain life brings and the suffering I was adding on top—most of it woven from my own regret. I learned this the hard way after my sister died. The pain asked for presence. The suffering asked for release. On the trail, with long hours to listen, I began to put down what wasn’t mine to carry. By the time I reached Finisterre, the true end of the Camino, I felt light...
During a recent Heart Mastery Circle session, I posed a provocative question to my students: “All suffering is self-created—true or false?” The room went quiet. Then came the responses. Half said true. Half said false. So I asked a second question: “For those of you who said true—or even partially true—what percentage of your suffering do you think you actually create?” “Thirty percent,” one participant offered. ”Forty percent,” said another. ”Eighty percent.” Each number was right. And each...