Instructor

Millie is the 5th of 7 children born to a working-class family in Louisville, Kentucky. The Grenough household was known as “the house with the swinging doors” — it always welcomed relatives and strangers. No accident that Millie continued that desire to explore life with many different people: eight years as a Maryknoll Sister (three of them in Bolivia and Peru); after leaving the convent, six years as an ESL teacher (three years in Spain, three in the USA, creator of Sing it! Learn English through Song), then gigs as a night-club singer.

After a near-death bicycle accident forced her to face the crazy pace of her own life, her trainings with Ilana Rubenfeld, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Thich Nhat Hanh and Francine Shapiro helped her put the pieces of her life together.

Millie now happily learns from her six grandchildren, husband Paul, colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine, and the events of daily life. She eagerly shares this “ordinary wisdom” with you.