Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the questions we don’t ask. Not because we’re lazy or because we don’t care.But because some questions feel just… uncomfortable. They shake things.They challenge our habits.They threaten the stories we’ve been telling ourselves. And yet those are usually the most important...
3 days ago • 1 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! This past week, I offered around 20 pro bono coaching sessions. I do this every year at the beginning of January—quietly, without big promotion —as a form of service to the world.For people who carry real pressure, real responsibility, and often don’t have access to support when they need it most. Different...
17 days ago • 3 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! The first days of the year often feel strange. Not quite a beginning.Not fully an ending. We stand somewhere in between: carrying what has closed, and sensing what has not yet taken shape. This year, that in-between space feels especially powerful for me. When Something Ends, and Something Else Whispers ❄️ photo...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! This is the last Letter of Change I’m sending you this year. Christmas is close. The year is slowing down.And before the noise of “new beginnings” takes over, I’d like to pause here with you, quietly, and ask a different question: What if this year didn’t need to be fixed, improved, or redeemed? An Anti–New...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! As the year slowly comes to a close, I notice something familiar—both in myself and in the people I work with. This strange mix of completion and anticipation.A quiet exhaustion.And, very often, a surprising difficulty in imagining what could come next. Not goals.Not plans.Just… possibilities. Some people dream...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! This week, I turned 58.And as always happens on birthdays, my phone lit up with messages from all over the world: friends, clients, partners, colleagues, readers, followers. I felt deeply touched by every single one of them. Truly. The week itself was beautiful. Time with my family. Long walks. Wonderful food. A...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! This week is very special for me. It’s my birthday week, a moment that always nudges me to pause, look around, and whisper, “So… what have we learned this time?” And while many people share lists of lessons equal to their age, I decided that’s far too long for both of us. I don’t have 58 wise revelations, and...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! Here’s a true story from this week. One, I’m still living through. I’m finishing a new book, a beautiful journal, which I hope to publish before December 1.A small birthday promise to myself.A window of time before my loved ones arrive.A familiar dance between focus, discipline, and the desire for quality. The...
2 months ago • 2 min read
Elena Agafonova Coach | Author | Happiness Explorer 🌱 Letters of Change A weekly space for happiness, self-trust & the art of living well Let’s begin gently Hello and welcome, Reader! Sometimes change arrives quietly.And it arrives like... LinkedIn updating its rules overnight, or when you are anything but prepared. This week, I was reminded of something essential: Resilience isn’t about staying calm. It’s about staying connected to your Why. When the goalposts move Photo by Seoyeon Kim on...
2 months ago • 2 min read