We are Penny & Bill

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Rev. Dr. Penny L. Taylor, LCSW
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Rev. Dr. Bill Ressl, LCSW
What We Share With You...
  • We share our life experiences, knowledge of the ages, and professional expertise to encourage kindness in new ways.
  • Wisdom from our combined 40+ year academic journey where we learned from experts.
  • Professional experience and expertise in the Peace Industry - clinical social work and pastoral care.
  • Each with 20+ years expertise in Bowen Family Systems Theory, Neo-Jungian Psychoanalysis, Systematic Theology, and Ritual Studies.
  • Stories from over 35+ years of couplehood. 20 years serving as Co-Ministers.
  • Combined 19+ years teaching graduate courses in the university. 7+ years as online educators.
Penny and Bill are Doctors of the Soul. For over 20 years Penny and Bill, Rev Dr Penny Taylor LCSW and Rev Dr Bill Ressl LCSW, have been helping folks rediscover their life’s treasures and imagine new possibilities. As clinical social workers, pastors, and professors, both Penny and Bill have supported individual renewal for those they have counseled, pastored, and taught.
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"Bill" aka Rev. William G. Ressl, MDiv, MSW, PhD, LCSW
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"Penny" aka Rev. Penny L. Taylor, MDiv, MSW, PhD, LCSW
They founded the Penny & Bill Company, dba Center to Awaken Kindness to encourage well-being and wellness. Simply, they create and offer mindful products and services that help to refresh and renew the body, mind, and soul. Each guided and self-guided self-care solution we develop is grounded in clinically proven contemporary practices and historic spiritually grounded methods. A number of our self-care solutions are available 24/7. Individual and couples counseling in the State of Illinois is available by appointment.
Today they share their knowledge base to help inspire mindful self-care techniques and practices that are grounded clinically, religiously, and spiritually. Both Penny and Bill are Ordained Ministers in the United Church of Christ (UCC) and licensed clinical social workers (LCSW) in Illinois. They bring their perspectives of their individual knowledge bases grounded in their PhDs in theology, ethics, and human sciences, MSWs, MDivs, and post-graduate certificates in family systems theory. And yes, Penny and Bill also share experiences from being married for over 35 years.