Gabriela With

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 protect a...

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 research, this...

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 unravel the...