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Borders and Boundaries: Why We Need Both
What an important topic. So many books have been written about it, some with good advice, some with bad. But still: boundaries are necessary. Before 1914, a traveller could cross most European borders without showing a passport at all. The passport as we know it, a document you must present to be allowed through, barely existed in much of the world. Only after World War I, in the name of security, did borders harden and papers become required. Borders exist for a reason. They

Gabriela With
Oct 124 min read


UNFROZEN UNBOUND — Now Available
UNFROZEN UNBOUND — front cover It's official: UNFROZEN UNBOUND is now available as a paperback and ebook. This book started as an art book, long before there were any words. Page by page, in a sketchbook, with paint, collage, fabric. The words came later. I needed the images first, to find my way back to my own voice. The sketchbook where it all began What this book is about UNFROZEN UNBOUND tells the story of a frozen response — and the long road back into feeling. In trauma

Gabriela With
Sep 183 min read


The Painting That Became a Book: My Own Journey Out of the Basement of Shame
Creativity was always a big part of my life — long before I understood why. I later learned I came from a family of musicians, artists, and sculptors. I was adopted, and that creativity lived in me quietly for years, even as my adoptive parents shut it down again and again. Finding my freedom to create was a long, hard road. When creativity found its way back Everything began to shift when I first came to Christ — when I became a follower of Yeshua HaMashiach. He started to u

Gabriela With
Aug 45 min read


Seven Months Online, One Month In Person: A Healing Beyond Borders Milestone
For seven months, Healing Beyond Borders lived entirely on a screen. Video calls across time zones. Voice notes sent between continents. Trust built one pixel at a time, with an ocean — sometimes several — between us. Then, one month ago, that changed. I sat across from a client in person for the first time since this offering began. I want to tell you what that was like — not because it was dramatic, but because it was quiet, and real, and exactly what I had hoped this work

Gabriela With
Jul 103 min read
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