About Us

Welcome to Grow I Am Active Learning Platform from Penny & Bill at the Penny & Bill Company. Founded in 2024, this active learning platform is a work in progress - constantly growing and changing. Initially we are creating new Grow I Am content and rebranding existing content from our Center to Awaken Kindness. Founded in 2020, the Center to Awaken Kindness CenterToAwakenKindness.com offered both therapy and innovative mental health solutions (videos, journals, etc). Today the Center is transitioning specifically to offering individual and couples counseling in the State of Illinois - on-ground in the Chicago area and teletherapy throughout the State of Illinois - while Grow I Am GrowIAm.com is becoming our entertaining nonfiction active learning platform. Come grow with us!

What We Share With You

Penny Taylor and Bill Ressl. Co-founders of the Grow I Am Active Learning Platform, a division of the Penny & Bill Company, Brookfield, IL USA.

We share...

• Our life experiences, knowledge of the ages, and professional expertise to encourage self-development in a variety of ways.
• Wisdom from our combined 40+ year academic journey where we learned from the experts in clinical social work, pastoral care & counseling, ritual studies - to name a few disciplines.
• Professional experience and expertise in the Peace Industry - clinical social work, pastoral care, and ministry.
• 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 in the United Church of Christ (UCC).
• Combined 19+ years teaching undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in the university. 7+ years as online educators.