Replace the Loss – Navigating Disappointment with Children
In Scotland where I live, Guising, the pre-cursor to Trick or Treat, is still practised. So, every year my daughters learn a song to...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Oct 24, 2022
Is Hope a Bitter Pill?
I spent 7 years studying the healing traditions in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. At holy water sites across the country I witnessed...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Oct 17, 2022
Pull Yourself Together
The other day, when I was clearing out the bins, a coffee packet slipped onto the floor. It was an ugly packet for the cheapest ground...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Oct 15, 2022
Do You Have the Right to Grieve?
We tend to think of grief as intensely private. But within the wider cultural context, grief is validated or censored – both implicitly...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Oct 3, 2022
Why Live?
Is this a question you have asked yourself recently? I am reading a book of that title at the moment – it’s not well written so I won’t...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Sep 28, 2022
Integration
A rainbow has pierced the clouds in front of my study window. The disintegration of light reveals a magnificence that neither sun nor...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Sep 20, 2022
Balance
The wheel of the year turns and night expands from its summer brevity. On 22 September, the Autumn Equinox, day and night divide their...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Sep 12, 2022
Grief says nothing about the person we are grieving
At a time of national mourning, we are naturally drawn to consider the nature of grief. It can be confusing when intense feelings are...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Sep 6, 2022
An Ultra-Marathon of Grief
I walked along the beach yesterday to the finish line of Tiree’s Ultramarathon. The bagpipes heralded each runner as they crossed the...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Jun 9, 2022
Healing Makes our Hearts Happy
For over twenty years the book, Healing Makes Our Hearts Happy by Richard Katz et al., has inspired me from my bookshelf. The contents...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Apr 2, 2022
Let the Sea be your Teacher
This morning, looking out at the sea, a poem of Mary Oliver's came to me: I go down to the shore in the morning And depending on the hour...
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Rachel Gwilym
- Mar 10, 2022
Talking to Children While War Rages
With so much coverage of the war in Ukraine, it's well nigh impossible to keep children in the dark about what is happening, even 2000...
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