Welcome
Hello lovely, I'm so happy you're here!
I can’t wait to support you in cultivating space to do your sacred work, so you can foster a life in which you flourish (flaws and all).
Grab a cuppa, get cozy, and stay awhile. Gift yourself time to indulge your curiosity and discover how you can gently honour your soul desires.
Your deepest desire is to reconnect to and embody your true power.
To be you, the real you, free from attachment to external approval.
To feel free from shoulds, striving and self-doubt.
To find self-love and belief, so you can honour
what really matters to you... at a soul level.
To feel like warm sunshine inside.
Words from my upcoming book, The Midlife Awakening
What...
Self-Doubt. Shoulds. Suppression.
The not-so-subtle dream killers, that keep us safe, stuck and small.
What if rather than ruminate about regrets, you compassionately cultivated space to do your sacred work, alongside a small gathering of like-hearted souls on the same journey?
Whether you’re a soulful creative, maker, world shaper or wisdom keeper, I'm here to gently guide you on your path through simple, soulful, seasonal embodiment & energy practices.
Encouraging you to move past doubts and fears, so that you trust your intuition and start working in a way that feeds your soul.
Why...
I believe if we all learn to live in a way that lights us up, together we will create a brighter world.
It took me over four decades and a death to honour and own my lifelong dream to be a writer.
Writing and creative expression are the unsung heroes that saved my life when it unexpectedly and spectacularly fell apart in midlife.
I couldn't be (or breathe) without them.
Words make me feel like warm sunshine inside.
Which is why I'm now on a mission to lovingly encourage gentle souls and magically-brained beings to give themselves grace and cultivate space to do their sacred work, so they can live soul-satisfying lives.
How...
Give Yourself Grace
Cultivate Space
Satisfy Your Soul
If the last three years have shown us anything, it's to seize the day and stop pushing our desires aside until someday.
However, knowing this doesn't make it any easier to get started.
We offer co-creative, collaborative resources, experiences and community for those who want to honour the work tugging at their soul but worry it’s too late and their brain won't bend enough.
Together we explore gentle ways to embrace our enoughness, make friends with fear, and nurture our creative expression.
Incorporating seasonal, cyclical practices into our lives, so we can cultivate space to do our sacred work alongside a like-hearted community on a similar journey.
Meet Your EnCourager...
I’m Helen Grace MacGregor, founder of grace.space.soul.
I’m passionate about gently encouraging gentle souls and magically-brained beings to unapologetically embrace, embody and express who they came here to be, so they can flourish in a world that equates worth with productivity.
I walked many paths for years as I journeyed back home to my true self. The entire time, I was accompanied by the inner call to help people and write.
I nailed the first part over the years. Not so much the second...
After turning my back on my former health professional career, I spent two decades serving kind-hearted souls who serve others. First as a Shiatsu and Cranio-Sacral therapist and later as a soul guide, yoga, and Qoya teacher.
My insatiable drive to understand what makes humans tick led to me training with some of the best embodiment and energy teachers in the Western world. As I shared my learnings and held space for others, I slowly remembered my real self.
In 2017, I wrote and successfully crowdfunded my first book, The Magical Unfolding: 8 Magical Processes for Peace, Potential and Purpose.
This mission-led book was my love letter to the world. Part memoir, part manifesto, and part roadmap for the journey of returning home to your true self, this book marked a turning point in my work. And in my sense of self-worth.
Years of fertility issues had previously seen me question my worth as a woman. Cultivating space and courage to create, so I could help others and honour my heart, restored my self-worth. And truly, deeply satisfied my soul.
The plot twist...
In 2019, only 8 months after my book release, life threw me a huge turning point. My long and happy marriage unexpectedly ended overnight after one conversation.
The pandemic arrived soon after. As the UK locked down 2 days before my 50th birthday,
I'd never felt more alone.
Life felt like it was falling apart and in many ways it was. But holding my heart tenderly in one hand and carrying my shreds of courage carefully in the other, I slowly and gently
began reorientating and recalibrating to the life I wasn't expecting to have.
Since then, I've been on a journey to rediscover who I am without the usual labels of wife
or mother, or the comfort zone of the known.
Navigating by intuition and leaning on trust, I've since relocated twice, had two employed charity jobs, and begun rebuilding life. It's been messy, scary, and lonely. I've cried a million tears, faced my biggest fears, and still come up smiling.
My midlife turning point has enriched my life more than I could ever have envisioned.
Which is why in my next life chapter, I'm Doing Life Differently. Again...
The bigger plot twist...
Having birthed a book, podcast, women's circles, and multiple courses over the years, I recently discovered that my multi-passionate Should-free, Soul-full approach to life can be explained by the fact I've unknowingly lived with ADHD for over 5 decades.
The tale doesn't end there... an additional diagnosis awaits. I already know the outcome if I'm honest...
it seems my brain is very neurosparkly. It explains my entire life. EVERYTHING. Despite my intuition
and people-whispering abilities, however, I did NOT see that coming!
Now, whilst I edit my second book, The Midlife Awakening, I'm letting love and bliss lead the way. Placing writing and wellbeing at the centre of my life and work. Inviting magic to unfold and delight
to ripple out from there. It feels big, vulnerable, and scary. Nonetheless, it's the thing I can't NOT do.
This is why I'm in the process of encapsulating two decades' worth of experiential and embodied wisdom and training into a new body of work. Helping you to get what really matters to you done...
even if, like me, you’re a neurodivergent midlife-ish creative.
I believe that it’s never too late to create, and your soul work doesn’t have to wait.
Here's to living and working in a way that sparks your soul, whatever life chapter you're in.
#celebratingdifferences #lookwhatlovedid #followyourbliss
Extra tea for the extra curious...
Main Certifications & Training*
*If I included ALL the courses I've completed, you'd probably wonder if I'm a millionaire with a time machine. Let's just say my curiosity has led the way and my brain loves to learn and play.
2023 - 2024
MA in Creative Writing & Wellbeing
Teeside University
2023
Somatic Attachment Therapy Cert
The Embody Lab
2021
Qoya Teacher Training
Qoya.Love
2016
Restorative Yoga Teacher Training
Judith Hanson Lasater
2014
Scaravelli Yoga Teacher Training
Yoga Health Mandala
2012
Cranio-Sacral Therapy Diploma
College of Cranio-Sacral Therapy
2007
Shiatsu Diploma
British School of Shiatsu-Do
2002
PgDip: Medical Imaging
University of Hertfordshire
1998
BSc (Hons) Diagnostic Radiography
University College Suffolk
You might also like to know...
I’m an INFP, a generator in Human Design,
maven/maker in Sparketypes, enneagram 9
and an intuitive, introverted empath.
My Sun is in Aries.
Then Scorpio all the way baybee - Moon & Rising.
I'm a Reiki Master. How precious a gift that's been.
I have dyspraxia and dyscalculia, which has made me highly adaptable; useful when you're number blind!
I have endless curiosity, appreciation for life & an innate ability to see things differently.
I've lived seasonally since 2003, when I started my Shiatsu training. After my hysterectomy, aged 42, I embraced
lunar living to follow a cycle.
Helen means 'bright light' or shining one. It was my second name when I was born but I've used it since I was 2.
I changed my name by deed poll to Helen Grace MacGregor on 21/3/22, to honour my ancestral roots and lovingly release my former married self a year before my divorce.
I don't usually see my own light fully, but I see the light in everyone I meet
#truestory 🌝
I love
Freshly brewed coffee and gluten-free chocolate brownies 👌🏻
Kittens and puppies - they make my heart smile 🐱
Magnolia trees in bloom. A brief gift of utter beauty 🌱
Quiet soulful deep thinkers with big hearts & a creator soul 🙌
Craggy coasts and deep blue sea 🌎
Kahlil Gibran, John O’Donohue, David Whyte & Rumi 👌
Sound - in many forms. It moves my soul 🎵
I’ve loved words forever & love that I get to use them in my work ✍️
Speaking of which, I’ve learned LOVE is all that matters 💝