gillydasilva

At Mending Hearts Retreat, my passion has always been helping people rebuild their lives after divorce, loss and major life changes. Over the past six years, I've been incredibly proud to watch so many of our guests leave with renewed confidence, lifelong friendships and a real sense of hope for the future. One of the greatest privileges of doing this work is meeting other professionals who are equally committed to helping people heal. Every now and then I come across an organisation whose...

One of the questions I'm asked more than almost any other is, "How do I avoid ending up with another narcissist?" It's hardly surprising. Spend five minutes on social media and you'll come away believing they're everywhere. Every difficult relationship seems to be labelled narcissistic these days, and while some people genuinely have experienced narcissistic abuse, I sometimes wonder whether we've become so focused on diagnosing other people that we've forgotten to ask ourselves a far more...

One of the biggest misconceptions about grief is that time heals it. I don't believe that's true. Time doesn't heal grief; it simply teaches us how to live around it. The grief we acknowledge gradually softens, but the grief we avoid has a habit of waiting patiently in the background until we're forced to face it. No matter how busy we keep ourselves or how many distractions we create, grief has an extraordinary way of catching up with us. After hosting divorce and grief retreats for women...