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Rachel Gwilym
Nov 17, 2024
What's Your Cosmic Pain Slut?
The heels of the dominatrix have a particular allure. Hide and seek has a special kind of thrill. Will I show my true colours or not? Bound
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Rachel Gwilym
Oct 20, 2024
Life Persists
This summer, a single rose, blousy and beautiful has inspired awe and gratitude in my heart. Awe for the sheer wonder of the natural...
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Rachel Gwilym
Sep 15, 2024
Mundane Love
This heart shaped potato found its way from a local croft to my kitchen and triggered the thought: perhaps I’ve been looking for love in...
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Rachel Gwilym
Sep 9, 2024
Beyond Pornography
Using masturbation to distract from the pain of loss leaves us hurting inside and becoming disconnected from the source of our sexual power.
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Rachel Gwilym
Sep 1, 2024
Completion
In the Grief Recovery Method we talk about becoming complete with grief. I like this choice of language. It's not covering up, denying,...
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 27, 2024
Discovering Worth
It seems to me that our irrefragable luminosity is best approached by ignoring the ego's shabby constructions.
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 24, 2024
Relinquishing Guilt
Grief accompanies us even when we are guilty of causing harm.
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 24, 2024
Re-thinking the Trajectory of Grief
Grief is not one thing – it's the conflicting feelings that follow the experience of loss. There's neither a linear path towards acceptance
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 18, 2024
When Poverty Comes Calling – Navigating Financial Loss
It’s easy to say that money’s not the most important thing in the world when you’ve got enough, but when poverty comes calling, it’s a...
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 13, 2024
The Making of a Storyteller
I have always loved stories. My mum continued to read to me long after I had started to read myself. While I was making my way through...
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 9, 2024
Walking the Heroine's Path
Once upon a time, I was in a therapist's office at the renowned Tavistock Clinic. It feels like a fairytale, it's so long ago. This was...
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Rachel Gwilym
Aug 1, 2024
Supporting a Grieving Friend – the Exception to the Rule
Every friendship is unique and calls from us utterance or silence that transmits love into the particularity of each experience of loss.
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 26, 2024
What Happens When we Cause Inadvertent Harm?
At Glasgow Airport on my way home to Tiree, I stepped away from the outsize luggage conveyor belt into the corridor behind a little lad...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 23, 2024
Domestic Abuse Haha
I’m sitting in the CalMac lounge waiting on my ferry back to Tiree. It is packed with more people than usual because a band of lively...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 22, 2024
Does Lying Make You Blind?
There is a direct correlation between the stress of lying and strain in the eyes according to Bates, the father of natural eyesight...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 21, 2024
Birthday Blues
Celebrating an anniversary of any kind can be bittersweet, but especially so if your special day also marks an experience of loss. I’ve...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 21, 2024
How to Support a Grieving Friend
When someone close to us is bereaved, it’s really hard to know what to say. We often fall back on cliches, out of ignorance and lack of...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 19, 2024
Recovering the Lost Years
Twenty years spent navigating life’s ocean in the unseaworthy ship, Victim, has left me with a panoply of grief.
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 17, 2024
Meeting the Envy Mood with Grace
When a friend, gave me a slightly intoxicated effusive compliment about how gorgeous my newly white hair looked, my husband said when...
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Rachel Gwilym
Jul 10, 2024
Do you have a Bruno in Your Head?
In the brilliant Disney film Luca, the title character is a sea being having a human experience. He's full of curiosity tempered with...
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