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Hello, dear one
I’m Grace, I live in Wales and I’m a counsellor, writer, coach, wellness provocateur, and healing trailblazer.
I want to live in a world where we are loved, accepted, and supported, and when illness, disability, difference, trauma or grief throw life off track, we can blaze a trail to a truer self.
Living with pain, illness or life crisis? I made this site for you.
Illness has been called “another country”, and it’s not only illness we get lost in, but pain, accident, trauma, or grief.
They are our own personal wilderness, and you are finding a way through the wilderness you are the first to do it in your life, the only one who can, but you don’t have to do it alone.
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"The transformational experience that Grace offers as an alternative to thrashing about in the weeds of 'no cure' and 'multiple chronic illnesses' is like nothing I've experienced before.
Her insight, support, and invaluable perspective on life with illness - and the healing journey that accompanies it - reminds me not only of her extraordinary capability for transformation and courage, but of my own as well."
-Esme Weijun Wang, New York Times bestselling author of The Collected Schizophrenias | EsmeWang.com
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10 Inclusive Card Decks For Creative Journalling & Self-Reflection
We are all seeking guidance and looking for reflections of ourselves. It’s the moment of validation – we see ourselves somewhere and in recognising our shape in another, we see ourselves as we are. Maybe we welcome a little bit more of ourselves (that’s why I believe in disability representation & share pictures of my daily life as a wheelchair user). But what happens when our options to see ourselves reflected feels limited? When we aren’t in magazines, or books, or on social media nearly enough? I have loved and used tarot and oracle cards for many years, but I have never loved them more than during this new surge…
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2020 Workshops: Creative Therapeutic Journalling As Resource & Ally in World Building
Dear ones, I have 2 creative therapeutic journalling workshops scheduled in 2020. I’d love for you to join me. If you are interested in exploring journalling for your mental health or your artistic practice, let’s do this. I anticipate both workshops will sell out, there are limited places due to the deep, interactive nature of the work and I don’t plan to run these again until 2021. If this is for you, book your space below. If you’d like to hear when the next workshops are available & get my monthly love & wellness letters, sign up for Postcards From The Margins here. Therapeutic Art Journal Retreat: Explore the healing…
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Gratitude & Grace List: High Summer While Shielding Edition
Inspired by my dear friend Gala Darling, I’m taking my love lists out of my (hot pink) journal and sharing them with you. It’s an odd time to look at things I am grateful for, because normal I catalogue small joys here. At this time, I’m deeply aware of the position of privilege I hold and to be able to think about small pleasures is great good fortune in this painful time. I also hold that I am focussing on small pleasures because, like many, I haven’t seen anyone outside my household in 5 months. I’m still shielding, still navigating the risk during this pandemic as a disabled woman. Here are some…
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New Workshop: There Is a Charge For the Eyeing Of My Scars: Marginalised Voices Writing About Pain
We are seeing an increasing awareness of the need to centre of voices of people of colour, disabled, LGBTIAQ+ and many others who have been excluded. However, the invitations for marginalised folks to speak/write/share can put us at risk as they do not always take into account the micro aggressions and structural inequities which excluded us for generations. Quite simply, adding more diversity to the status quo isn’t the solution. But while the structures are unfit and unsafe, we still want to speak and occupy space. In this workshop we explore how to do that in a way that’s effective and safe for each of us. We’ll reflect on and…
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Literature Wales and Royal College of Psychiatrists Wales Commission
Literature Wales, in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales, are pleased to announce the names of the writers commissioned following the second call-out for engaging literary content and projects for audiences. The second round of funding for Writer Commissions in partnership with the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Wales was launched on 4 May. The focus for this round was health and wellbeing. Literature is frequently used therapeutically, as preventative, palliative, and curative medicine for some illnesses and disabilities. Cumulatively, potential outcomes of literature and creative writing contribute to improved well-being for individuals, our society, economy, and culture and are crucial to the vibrancy of our national cultural narrative.…
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