Meet Andreia Saboya

We recently connected with Andreia Saboya and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Andreia, so excited to have you with us today and we are really interested in hearing your thoughts about how folks can develop their empathy? In our experience, most folks want to be empathic towards others, but in a world where we are often only surrounded by people who are very similar to us, it can sometimes be a challenge to develop empathy for others who might not be as similar to us. Any thoughts or advice?

Empathy didn’t come naturally to me. It was something that I had to witness in the receiving end to truly grasp it. Considering I didn’t get much of it growing up, I knew very little about how to show it to others.
In 2016, my boyfriend passed away and the way my friends and family showed up for me and gave me so much unconditional love really taught me what empathy and compassion really look like. It was a deeply transformational moment in my life – a dark night of the soul for sure.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am someone who seeks growth and emotional intelligence at all times.
I look for all the ways in which I might be projecting my inner stuff into the world and not grasping reality as it is.
I study, I teach, I observe and I choose to be present through life.
I work hard to be mindful of the distractions I bring into my life as a way of avoiding painful feelings. With all that being said though, I am still very much an optimist, a milder version of a thrill seeker (as my skydiving and trapeze flying years are behind me) and I love dancing! I do what makes my soul happy. I seek connections that are fulfilling with like minded folks and keep my close friends very close.
I bring all of this into AcuWise, my private acupuncture practice, and into my teachings at Pacific College.
I believe the key to freedom is to bring our unconscious habituated responses into consciousness and therefore live life authentically, being who we really are.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

Definitely optimism, resiliency and rebellion.
All three are the foundation of who I am and how I’ve been able to keep going, strongly and with purpose.

What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?

I’ve been on a deep dive into how we create issues in our body that come from our inability to deal with emotional pain/trauma.
I am teaching a new class at Pacific College and this has been the propulsory force into this deep dive. Being the sagittarian I am, I see these events as gifts to discover new aspects of life and healing.
The books that have been by my side lately are: The Body Keeps the Score, Acupuncture for Surviving Adversity and Psycho-Emotional pain and the 8 Extraordinary Vessels.

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