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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 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 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 2, 2024
How are You?
Someone said to me the other day, ‘You’re looking well, Rachel. How are you?’ I answered, to my surprise , ‘I’m better than I’ve been in...
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Rachel Gwilym
Feb 26, 2024
Would you See the Gorilla?
A group of students were invited to count how many times dancers on stage swapped partners. The students observed the dancers carefully...
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Rachel Gwilym
Nov 7, 2022
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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