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Do You Need a Relationship Tune Up?
“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the greatest work, the last and final work for which all other is but preparation”. ~R.M. Rilke February is the month that many couples turn their attention to their relationship. Some ramp up the romance and go...
Learning to Accept Your Failures
After twenty-something years of marriage she had ended it. Now, the house was up for sale and the kids at university. After years of indifference, “flat-lining’, I call it, it had come to this. She had moved out. She was, after all, the one who had been working on...
Are You Passionate About Your Work?
I am passionate about Italy. I wanted to have an excuse to visit Italy more often so I designed Couples Retreats to Italy and invited my clients to join me there. I brought one of my passions to life by creating work that I loved. Here I am in the sunflowers of...
Hope & Humanity During a Pandemic
"Joy cannot be felt without sorrow, pleasure without pain, love without emptiness. To have once had one's heart touched is to carry the scar of love." -Rumi Last December, I was leaving a meeting downtown when I passed a young woman decorating a big Christmas tree...
Emotionally Intelligent Marriages
Once upon a time when love was new and fresh, we would regularly share our intimate feelings and vulnerabilities with one another. We felt close and connected. But then the pressures and stressors of modern life set in. We are asked to juggle our many roles and...
Who Are You?
You have a body. But you are not your body. You have thoughts. But you are not your thoughts. You have emotions. But you are not your emotions. You have a family. But you are not your family. You have friends. But you are not your friends. You have a job. But...
Why Men Need Therapy
I run men's Intensive therapy weekends because I have met far too many men at my Couples Retreats who are brilliant but who just don't have the necessary emotional intelligence to succeed at relationships. Men's brains are hard wired for action, not emotion. Add to...
Best Advice for Couples: Elle Magazine Interview
ELLE MAGAZINE: What are your top three pieces of love and dating advice based on your research and experience with couples? GRACE: 1. Listen with Your Heart—Good communicators listen for feelings as well as facts. They naturally make people feel special and...
Benefits of a Women’s Retreat
Women's Inner Faultline A lot of women at first glance seem to cope well with the demands of life. They’ve learned to juggle their many roles and responsibilities but what people don’t see is the fault line on the inside that puts pressure on everything else. This...
Why a Couple’s Retreat vs. Traditional Counselling
Traditional Therapy Only Goes So Far: There are many reasons why people choose a Couple's Retreat or marriage intensive over traditional talk therapy for marital issues. First of all, traditional therapy (CBT cognitive behaviour therapy) is extremely limited when...
The Sacred Marriage: Vulnerability & Courage in Modern Times
The following is the Introduction to my new book, The Sacred Marriage: Vulnerability & Courage in Modern Times Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. ----Rumi What is a Sacred Marriage? It is a deep, loving romantic connection of honour and reverence....
7 Tips to Nurture Your Intuition
Thank you to all who attended my Goddess Club workshop this week. What a wonderful turnout and so much amazing ENERGY!! Everyone loved the topic of Intuition! For years, I have had requests for my notes, or a synopsis of what was discussed at these monthly workshops...
Let Your Emotions Flow Like a River
There are many therapies out there — different approaches aimed at helping people become more effective and less fearful. What I’ve learned is that good psychological health comes down to emotional energy and whether this energy inside you is positive and moving or...
Redemption: Wipe the Slate Clean
My friend’s 90 year old father, Charlie is on his death bed. He was a hard man in his younger days, bossy and aggressive, and my friend hated the way he treated her mother who died ten years earlier. Still she confesses, “I massage him several times a day. I shave...
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