Janaina Velloza
Specialist in Spiritual Human Development
Janaina Velloza is a specialist in Spiritual Human Development, an ICF-certified ontological coach, and a Pathwork® facilitator. Partner at Katris Consultoria, she works with leaders and organizations to cultivate mental health, self-awareness, and spiritual intelligence, creating more conscious, healthy, and meaningful work environments. She supports leaders, professionals, and organizations in fostering mental health, self-awareness, and spiritual intelligence, promoting healthier and purpose-driven workplaces.
This chapter contributes to the book by revealing, through an intimate account, how the idealized pursuit of happiness can generate suffering and disconnection. By integrating personal life and professional trajectory, it highlights that crises are invitations to self-awareness.
The text inspires the reader to explore their “beautiful problems” as a way to reconnect with themselves, which brings greater meaning to life and, as a natural consequence, happiness and mental well-being.
Janaina Velloza
About Janaina Velloza
Janaina Velloza is a specialist in Spiritual Human Development, a career ontological coach trained at the Instituto Appana, certified by the ICF, and a Facilitator of the Pathwork® Personal Transformation method. She is currently a partner at Katris Consultoria, bringing self-awareness, mental health, and spiritual intelligence into organizations.
Trained as a lawyer and specialized in Consumer Relations Law at PUC/SP, she worked for nearly 20 years in Legal and Compliance departments at financial companies such as General Electric, Unibanco, and Itaú. A profound professional crisis, coupled with an unfulfilled desire for motherhood — at least in its strict sense — led her to a deep personal reconnection, a process she describes as “mothering herself.”
In addition to supporting professionals in crisis — those who feel empty or disconnected from their work — to reconnect with their essence and find meaning in their professional lives, she also works as a consultant with organizations that recognize that the mental health crisis in the corporate world is, above all, a crisis of meaning. Through Katris, she helps leaders and teams cultivate healthier, more conscious, and fulfilling environments through Development and Training Journeys, Lectures, Workshops, and Team Building activities.
Janaina believes that mothering oneself — at work or in life — is, above all, about revealing the best of oneself and offering it to yourself first. This positively impacts others, the team, the organization, and the world.
Chapter Theme
Mothering Yourself: Creating Meaning in Work from Your Crises
This chapter invites the reader to reflect on their true concept of happiness while connecting with the co-author's intimate and profound account of her relentless pursuit of happiness, projected onto the fulfillment of her desires and goals, including the fulfillment of motherhood. It shows what she learned about herself from the non-manifestation of this desire and how this impacted, among other things, the new directions of her professional activity, encouraging the reader to delve into the investigation of their "beautiful problems" as a way of revealing themselves to themselves. It ends with an invitation to the most important work of the reader's life, according to the co-author, of course.