by Engracia Gill | May 31, 2024 | Blog, Therapy
When I was a budding therapist, right out of social work school, I started the process of healing from complex trauma through EMDR. My therapist suggested that I read “Facing Codependence” by Pia Mellody. I was instantly hooked. I had, of course, been familiar with...
by Engracia Gill | Apr 12, 2023 | Blog, Family
Sometimes events in life appear to be overwhelming and yet, a silver lining shows itself in unexpected ways. I chose to surrender on this one occasion not because I was so wise and so courageous. No, not at all. I actually surrendered because I was cornered,...
by Engracia Gill | May 27, 2021 | Blog, Well Being
Oprah’s new series “The Me You Don’t See” is an enormously well-crafted and deeply moving series. In that series, Oprah focuses her most amazing gifts on our mental health needs as humans. And the shining truth that emerged for me in her beautiful work is that we...
by Engracia Gill | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Mindfulness, Well Being
Isn’t it amazing that you can meet a person, a perfect stranger, and very quickly feel a connection? When I saw my husband for the first time, 38 years ago, on the Orient Express, I was backpacking with my roommate from college. We were en route to Greece, and he was...
by Engracia Gill | Apr 15, 2017 | Blog, Mindfulness, Well Being
“Let me not beg for the stilling of pain, but for the heart to conquer it” Rabindranath Tagore The word courage contains in its root the French word ‘coeur’ (i.e. heart). In its etymology, courage implies an ability to face negative circumstances with a heart full of...
by Engracia Gill | Jan 28, 2017 | Blog, Couple
I was watching a romantic comedy, “Blind Date” on Netflix this last weekend. The movie happens to actually be a French movie. The story, of course, applied the classic formula of “boy meets girl, boy/girl breaks up with boy/girl and boy/girl make up and are happily...
