Grace Gawler is internationally renowned as a holistic wellness speaker and practitioner, naturopathic philosopher, corporate inspirer and expert on living with and the prevention of cancer.  Her bestselling book is Women of Silence and her Memoirs: Grace,Grit and Gratitude were published in October 2008. Grace is recognized and respected by the medical profession and complementary healers for her balanced approach to the treatment and healing of cancer and cancer survival. Grace uses wisdom from her 30-year experience with illness as a transformative process to help inspire wellness, prevent illness and promote health.

As a corporate speaker, Grace focuses on a revolutionary paradigm of mind, body and spirit management which releases the potential within. Gentle, fun and often interactive; the power of Grace's presentations are greatly enhanced by her extraordinary and inspiring story - overcoming her husband's cancer, co founding 'the Melbourne and Yarra Valley Living Centre, and the Gawler Foundation then winning her own crippling heath challenges to become a powerful international force in wellness and personal development.

 

Since Grace Gawler wrote the first edition of Women of Silence in 1994, the field of psycho-neuroimmunolgy has developed and expanded, bringing new clarity to the powerful interaction of body, mind, emotion and spirit. Thirty years ago when her husband developed terminal bone cancer, Grace committed every fibre of her being to finding ways of healing the disease. Together they journeyed to the edge of life, working their way through 31 different therapeutic approaches, until little by little the life force was switched on again and healing began. Transformed by this experience, they founded Australia's first Cancer Support Group, working over the years with more than 10,000 people with cancer.

 Following the breakdown of her marriage and a serious health crisis of her own, Grace has written this second edition of Women of Silence. As numerous surgical procedures interrupted her busy professional life, Grace focused her attention increasingly on the multi-layered stresses and traumas that lead to extreme physical and emotional exhaustion and illness. "We bleed energetically" she says "losing our passion for living."

So, the Silent Women of Grace's book, who so often struggle with breast cancer, bottle up their emotions even though they may not be instinctively passive by nature. Overwhelmed by painful experiences they keep silent; the inner void of unresolved emptiness within them making action well nigh impossible.