My Story
When my visions actually began to happen in my life, I was brought to many crossroads such as horrifying, panic-inducing dreams, memories of past lives impacting profound conflict with my fundamental beliefs, and confrontation with my deeply blocked memory of an unimaginable childhood trauma. My inner voice guided me to choices that led me from a nightmarish existence to becoming the creator of my own happy dream.
I left my abusive marriage and returned home to California, at the time settling in Dana Point, where most of my visions came to be. I journaled for many years and I could not hold it back — my truth had to be told. For decades I had kept secret my prophetic visions, and what they were teaching me . . . as though living two lives. I thought others would think I was crazy. Yet, I knew what I was learning would not truly be mine until I gave it away. Writing Thank God I’m Crazy was a “coming out” for me. It was scary! Thankfully, I was gently guided through the process by that still small voice, and the support of many others.
Now it is my passion to extend the love I’ve found to people like me; people who ache to find a way out of being a victim, who know abuse, or who have ever thought they were crazy, or who want to live a meaningful life. It gives me great joy when I can do my part in supporting others in their discovery of empowerment through their own still-small voice, to make conscious choices, and to witness the miraculous realization of our own inherent innocence.
With a mounting compassion for others, for two years I was inspired to become a facilitator of a Global Alliance peace circle, and to lobby and publicly speak for the bill (still in congress) proposing A Department of Peace. I also became a spokesperson for the awareness of domestic violence for Laura’s House (Established in memory of Nicole Brown Simpson).
As a Relationship Counselor, and a former special education teacher with a background in psychology, training in the Psychosynthesis method, and nearly a decade as a teacher of A Course in Miracles, I offer presentations, seminars, and workshops to create a space where everyone can get in touch with their own personal still small voice within. “I first see the one who comes as in complete perfection and wholeness. Then gradually, the blocks reveal themselves to each of us. Gratefully, this can become a timely opportunity for the choice to be made to begin to release them so that they no longer keep that person from being in their truth of natural joy. Wellness is a journey from the head to the heart.” For bookings, consultations, and appointments please email g.avalon@icloud.com or go to the contact page.
Today I happily live in Southern California with my husband, near my beloved Dana Point – where my spiritual journey was realized.
“Thank God I’m Crazy is not a text book. It’s a wonderful, experiential work that illuminates the path Grace has taken from the madness all the separated ones feel to the sanity of her Source. Like me, I’m sure you’ll be richer for taking the trip along with her.”
Gary Renard
(International Speaker and Best-Selling Author of Disappearance of the Universe)
How does one express the extraordinary in an ordinary way? A victim of abuse from early on in life, I longed to know the ordinary. Instead, I was shown the extraordinary. When euphoric visions of kaleidoscopic light laced with images of unfamiliar places came to me at the age of twenty two, I joyfully surrendered in child-like wonder. Yet, I thought I must have been crazy. I did what anyone would do – I tried not to think about it.
How prophetic that experience became for me when sixteen years later, feeling quite professional after having graduated from an East Coast women’s college, my old visions actually began to happen. One by one these images led me to trust in the unknown, and to believing in my own inner voice.
INDIAN MAIDEN
I stared in utter disbelief. Why hadn’t I noticed it before? It was July – with her smoke spirit suspended just above her left shoulder! And there she had been the whole time – in my bathroom. Life itself was mirroring my truth back to me! In my heart, I knew I would yet learn what I needed to know. I profoundly trusted that there is an inter-relatedness between all life and things (Thank God I’m Crazy, page 270).
“I no longer see life as a struggle. Struggle creates opposition that makes fear and negativity real. Life for me is not a battle. . . it’s a dance to the music of forgiveness. . . it’s gently leaning into love. Some of my greatest delights are when I am spending playful time with friends, reading, singing the old standards, walking at sunset, chocolate. . . and dogs!”
Grace Avalon