Mila Austin is the author of And Spring Comes: A Gestalt Path to Inner Freedom. After forty years in software development and management, she trained in Gestalt-based psychological counseling and now writes and speaks about awareness, change, and inner ground, informed by her own life and time at Esalen Institute in Big Sur. 

In her book, she traces bodily sensation, thought, and emotion as they unfold in real time, revealing how deeply the past can still shape us—even when we think it's long behind us. It's a book about understanding yourself more deeply, and finding a steadier place within from which to live and love without losing yourself. 

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