Lucy Grace
About Lucy Grace.
Lucy Grace is a mystic, spiritual guide, holistic therapist and poet based in New Zealand. She is the author of This Untameable Light and sees life as an ongoing practice to embody realisation. We can only give, what we embody.
She has lived many lives – including as a television journalist for New Zealand’s largest national news channel One News, and a humanitarian aid worker based in Europe for 15 years working for UNICEF, Save the Children, Fairtrade and Oxfam. She worked in orphanages and disaster zones around the world helping to bring relief to peoples suffering.
Lucy now focuses on her work as a spiritual guide, therapist and poet. She teaches hundreds of people from around the globe each week in community, group and private sessions, helping them to connect with their deepest heart, truth and joy.
LIFE AS PATH: Lucy was raised in a poor neighbourhood, by a young single mother in the early 1980s.
They sometimes went without food, heating, furntiture or schoolbooks. In the end, they always ended up with whatever they truly needed.
There was a significant amount of violence in the area where Lucy grew up. Burglaries were common place in her home. The area was rife with gangs, and when she was 25 she was diagnosed with PTSD from ongoing exposure to significant violence.
Despite the trauma and lack of resources in childhood, Lucy mostly felt light inside, full of ordinary joy. The lack of resources resulted in a shrinking of her outer world to what she thought of – years later – as a kind of welfare-child ashram.
At 18 she left the neighbourhood where she grew up to attend university in the big city and at 19 she experienced her first significant awakening, seeing through the personal self. This brought with it a lot of grief and integration, coming to terms with losing “Lucy.”
At this time subtle perceptions revealed themselves and for a decade she could see spirits and feel what others where feeling and thinking to a level she wasn’t comfortable with.
She was filled with love and a sense of deep wellness. She never thought much of it, and didn’t talk about it, there had already been so much light inside through childhood, and she was just relieved to be in the world finally – and out of the area where she grew up – that she simply focussed on living.
There was still significant trauma to be worked through on the level of the psyche and her life at this time led her to psychotherapy which helped heal her PTSD.
After a brief stint in television journalism, Lucy spent 15 years in Europe and New Zealand working for international humanitarian aid agencies. She worked in orphanages in Bulgaria, and went to disasters to help with food, shelter and water.
Because there had been no conscious spiritual search, she had no context for what was happening. Often it was so beautiful – she didn’t need to know. There was an innate sense of trust and recognition that went beyond what needed to be seen or understood with the mind.
When the need to understand did arise – some online searches helped a little, but often she preferred sitting in silence to hear from within.
Guidance and teaching had always been present throughout her life, and given through hearing and images – an “understanding” about what was going to happen or come, or being told directly in dreams or out of body experiences, what would unfold in her life (it did unfold that way, time and time again, until she learnt to trust these messages).
Since then, Lucy has been called over and over into deeper surrender. She has had further profound shifts and many clearings – without spiritual teachers or a formal path.
She sees life as the path.
Her career of 15 years, husband/partner of 16 years, many friends, and her home – all things she loved dearly – fell away.
She is not selling any idea and makes no claim to know anything. It seems to her that there is nothing to know, or that can be known. There is no one way and no right way. There is only your way, to be honoured and cherished and fallen into more and more deeply in every breath.
