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 begins not with a crisis — but with a cup of coffee. That’s how it started for one of my clients, a 40-year-old senior business development manager at a global IT company. She was smart, respected, and successful by every measure. Her life looked exactly how success is supposed to look: 💼 a...
7 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! Some changes begin quietly. Not with fireworks or big decisions, but with a subtle discomfort — a sense that what once mattered no longer does.That the ladder we’re climbing might be leaning against the wrong wall. We call it “a career change,” “a new chapter,” or “a turning point,” but at its heart, every...
14 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! Some people celebrate every milestone with fireworks. I’m not one of them. I’ve always been better at moving forward than pausing. Even when something big happens, I tend to rush into the next task instead of stopping to breathe it in. But lately, two very different experiences reminded me how wrong that habit...
21 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 Reader! Have you ever felt that life was holding you in the waiting room as if your turn would come only when someone else finally moved aside? Sometimes, we wait so long for the “right moment” that we forget we can create it ourselves. When the Wait Ends, the Leap Begins She had spent 18 years working her way up inside her region’s...
27 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 Reader! We often think clarity comes from moving forward. But sometimes, it comes from pausing long enough to notice which path isn’t ours to walk. When the compass points away She was in her late 40s, top management at a major European pharmaceutical company. The work was heavy enough, but the politics around her compliance role...
about 1 month 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 Reader! Some people move quickly when change calls. Others take the scenic route. And sometimes, the detour isn’t wasted. It’s what helps them discover the right path. Finding what really fits When we first spoke, he was 38, an acoustic engineer in Estonia. Skilled, respected — but struggling to find steady work. He’d tried the...
about 1 month 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 Reader! Over the years, I’ve seen people approach big changes in very different ways. Some start by quietly exploring — trying on new ideas, picking up skills, moving toward change like someone collecting puzzle pieces without knowing the picture yet. Others want a clear map before taking a single step — researching, comparing,...
about 2 months 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! One evening, while half-scrolling, half-exhausted, I stumbled (well — not quite accidentally) into a quiet little room on Clubhouse where Cory Muscara was leading a guided meditation. His voice was calm, his message simple: “Don’t miss your life.” That phrase stayed with me. Muscara has spent years studying...
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! Lately, I’ve been experiencing what I call phantom pain. It travels around my body: my shoulder one day, my neck the next, sometimes my stomach. It’s not connected to injury or illness. It arrives silently and mysteriously, and always with the same message: You’ve left the present...You’ve left your body...
2 months ago • 3 min read