Engracia Gill; December 2016 The Christmas season brings into sharp focus the idea of gifts and giving at this time of the year. Last year, my New Year resolution was to give the gift of my time to my community. I joined iAct which stands for Interfaith Action of Central Texas. Every Wednesday from 9:00 […]
Lifting the Dark Shadow of the “Locker Room” Behavior
It can happen anywhere… on the bus, in church. It can happen with anybody… a teacher, a boss, an uncle… It can be a wandering hand or a naked stare at our chest… I had an experience recently and it caught my heart. I belong to a woman’s choir, a kind of “Red Tent” gathering […]
The Marvels of Lithium
The word lithium may not evoke marvels to you because you most probably associate with bi-polar and that might actually conjure up dread rather than marvel. That is understandable because our association with lithium is most often linked to lithium as a medication rather than as a mineral. In fact, when I suggest that clients […]
How to live to be one hundred and love it!
There are many areas of the world where there are many , living to be 100 or more. These people are known to be living in ‘blue zones’, meaning that these zones are areas of the world where people live healthier and longer lives, compared to the rest of the world. There’s a tiny Mediterranean […]
Love: the best stress buster!
When stressed by lab researchers, rats will bite other rats to dispel the pain of electrical shocks. What’s remarkable about that is how many mammal (and bird) species have the same reaction as humans do when stressed. While we may not go around biting other humans as a result of stress, we do cast off […]