<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner: Refractions]]></title><description><![CDATA[Short reflections on what we carry, what we release, and how writing changes everything.]]></description><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/s/refractions</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!edr4!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb4918ff4-5903-47ac-a3a4-16714334cb96_1024x1024.png</url><title>Your Secret Corner: Refractions</title><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/s/refractions</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:14:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[yoursecretcorner@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[yoursecretcorner@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[yoursecretcorner@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[yoursecretcorner@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Sobre ser escuchado]]></title><description><![CDATA[La diferencia entre que te escuchen y sentirte realmente escuchado]]></description><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-ser-escuchado</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-ser-escuchado</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:45:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c90bf078-8458-426f-abe4-dfe5a146d9be_2005x3016.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>La mayor&#237;a de las personas han escuchado nuestras palabras. Eso no significa que nos hayan escuchado de verdad.</p><p>Hay una diferencia.</p><p>A veces hablamos y la otra persona asiente, responde e incluso parece prestar atenci&#243;n. Pero, de alguna manera, sentimos que algo no lleg&#243; al otro lado. Como si nuestras palabras hubieran pasado por la conversaci&#243;n sin encontrar un lugar donde quedarse.</p><p>Sentirse escuchado no tiene tanto que ver con recibir consejos.</p><p>De hecho, muchas veces ocurre lo contrario.</p><p>Contamos algo dif&#237;cil y, antes de terminar, alguien ya est&#225; explic&#225;ndonos qu&#233; deber&#237;amos hacer. O comparte una historia parecida. O intenta convencernos de que no es para tanto.</p><p>La intenci&#243;n suele ser buena. Pero no siempre es lo que necesitamos.</p><p>Hay momentos en los que no buscamos soluciones. Buscamos espacio.</p><p>Un lugar donde poder decir lo que pensamos sin que alguien intente corregirnos, apresurarnos o cambiarnos de opini&#243;n.</p><p>Quiz&#225;s por eso escribir resulta tan distinto.</p><p>La p&#225;gina no interrumpe. No juzga. No espera su turno para hablar.</p><p>Simplemente est&#225; ah&#237;.</p><p>Y, a veces, cuando ponemos nuestros pensamientos en palabras, ocurre algo inesperado: empezamos a escucharnos a nosotros mismos.</p><p>Descubrimos cosas que no sab&#237;amos que sent&#237;amos. Encontramos emociones escondidas detr&#225;s del enojo, la tristeza o el cansancio. Vemos conexiones que antes pasaban desapercibidas.</p><p>Tal vez sentirse escuchado no siempre dependa de encontrar a la persona adecuada.</p><p>A veces comienza cuando nos damos el tiempo de escuchar nuestra propia voz.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Also available in English: <a href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-being-heard">On being heard</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On being heard]]></title><description><![CDATA[The difference between being listened to and feeling truly heard]]></description><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-being-heard</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-being-heard</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:41:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c03a7e8b-4009-487b-ba24-0ba048cfff83_2005x3016.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most people have heard our words. That doesn&#8217;t always mean they&#8217;ve truly heard us.</p><p>There&#8217;s a difference.</p><p>Sometimes we talk, and the other person nods, responds, and seems to be paying attention. Yet somehow, it feels like our words never really landed. As if they passed through the conversation without finding a place to stay.</p><p>Feeling heard has very little to do with getting advice.In fact, it&#8217;s often the opposite.</p><p>We share something difficult, and before we&#8217;ve even finished speaking, someone is already telling us what we should do. Or they start talking about a similar experience they had. Or they try to convince us that things aren&#8217;t really that bad.</p><p>Most of the time, their intentions are good.</p><p>But that isn&#8217;t always what we need.</p><p>Sometimes we&#8217;re not looking for solutions.</p><p>We&#8217;re looking for space.</p><p>A place where we can say what we&#8217;re thinking without being corrected, rushed, or talked out of how we feel.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s one reason writing feels so different.</p><p>The page doesn&#8217;t interrupt. It doesn&#8217;t judge. It doesn&#8217;t wait for its turn to speak.</p><p>It simply stays there.</p><p>And sometimes, when we put our thoughts into words, something unexpected happens: we begin to hear ourselves.</p><p>We notice feelings we didn&#8217;t realize were there. We discover what&#8217;s hiding beneath the frustration, the sadness, or the exhaustion. We see connections we hadn&#8217;t seen before.</p><p>Maybe feeling heard doesn&#8217;t always depend on finding the right person.</p><p>Sometimes it begins with giving ourselves the chance to listen to our own voice.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Tambi&#233;n disponible en espa&#241;ol: <a href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-ser-escuchado">Sobre ser escuchado</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sobre dejar ir]]></title><description><![CDATA[Por qu&#233; nos aferramos a lo que nos duele y c&#243;mo la escritura puede ayudarnos a soltarlo.]]></description><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-dejar-ir</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-dejar-ir</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:05:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c488493c-a61e-4977-8cf1-481bf9c4fc20_5472x3648.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hay cosas que sabemos que nos hacen da&#241;o y, aun as&#237;, nos cuesta soltarlas.</p><p>Una relaci&#243;n que termin&#243; hace a&#241;os. Una conversaci&#243;n que nunca ocurri&#243;. Un error que seguimos repasando una y otra vez en nuestra cabeza.</p><p>A veces pensamos que nos aferramos porque todav&#237;a nos importa. Pero muchas veces no es eso. Nos aferramos porque dejar ir puede sentirse como admitir que algo termin&#243;, que no tendr&#225; el desenlace que imagin&#225;bamos o que nunca recibiremos la explicaci&#243;n que esper&#225;bamos.</p><p>Escribir puede ayudar precisamente por eso.</p><p>Cuando algo permanece solo en nuestra mente, suele dar vueltas sin llegar a ninguna parte. Los mismos pensamientos regresan una y otra vez. Las mismas preguntas. Los mismos &#8220;&#191;y si hubiera hecho esto?&#8221; o &#8220;&#191;por qu&#233; pas&#243; aquello?&#8221;.</p><p>Al ponerlo por escrito, ocurre algo curioso. La historia deja de girar en c&#237;rculos y empieza a tomar forma. Ya no estamos persiguiendo pensamientos. Estamos observ&#225;ndolos.</p><p>No siempre encontramos respuestas. A veces ni siquiera encontramos alivio inmediato. Pero muchas veces descubrimos algo m&#225;s &#250;til: claridad.</p><p>Escribir no cambia lo que ocurri&#243;. No borra una p&#233;rdida ni corrige una decepci&#243;n. Lo que s&#237; puede hacer es ayudarnos a dejar de cargarla de la misma manera.</p><p>Porque soltar no significa olvidar.</p><p>Soltar puede ser simplemente dejar de luchar con algo que ya sucedi&#243;.</p><p>Y, a veces, una p&#225;gina en blanco es un buen lugar para empezar.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p><em>Also available in English: <a href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-letting-go">On letting go</a></em></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On letting go]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why we hold on to what hurts us &#8212; and how writing helps us let go.]]></description><link>https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-letting-go</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/on-letting-go</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Your Secret Corner]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:51:26 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/197504fe-5f22-42e4-ab22-3ce0b6530c6f_5472x3648.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p>There are things we know are hurting us, and yet we struggle to let them go.</p><p>A relationship that ended years ago. A conversation that never happened. A mistake we keep replaying in our minds.</p><p>Sometimes we think we hold on because we still care. But often, that&#8217;s not the real reason. We hold on because letting go can feel like accepting that something is over, that it won&#8217;t end the way we hoped, or that we&#8217;ll never get the explanation we were waiting for.</p><p>Writing can help for that very reason.</p><p>When something stays only in our minds, it tends to go in circles. The same thoughts return again and again. The same questions. The same &#8220;What if I had done this differently?&#8221; or &#8220;Why did that happen?&#8221;</p><p>When we put it into words, something shifts. The story stops spinning and begins to take shape. We&#8217;re no longer chasing our thoughts. We&#8217;re looking at them.</p><p>We don&#8217;t always find answers. Sometimes we don&#8217;t even find immediate relief. But often we find something just as valuable: clarity.</p><p>Writing doesn&#8217;t change what happened. It doesn&#8217;t erase a loss or fix a disappointment. What it can do is help us carry those things differently.</p><p>Because letting go doesn&#8217;t mean forgetting.</p><p>Sometimes it simply means stopping the fight with something that has already happened.</p><p>And sometimes, a blank page is a good place to begin.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Tambi&#233;n disponible en espa&#241;ol: <a href="https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/p/sobre-dejar-ir">Sobre dejar ir</a></em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://yoursecretcorner.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Your Secret Corner! 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