ABOUT GRIEF TO GRACE
Dr. Theresa Burke created Grief to Grace – Healing the Wounds of AbuseTM in 2005 to provide a psychological and spiritual healing program to help people who have endured physical, emotional, sexual, or spiritual abuse reclaim their dignity. This retreat is also appropriate for anyone who has suffered from the loss of a family, a parent’s addiction, neglect or abandonment experiences, being bullied in childhood, distressing medical problems or mental illness, traumatic death events, violence, divorce, or abuse by an authority figure or member of the clergy, government, or education system.
If you have suffered trauma from an authority figure in the Church or in a religious community. We will help you work through your anger in order to release the grief, powerlessness, and spiritual conflicts that impact your trust. While we’re not a campaign group against the Church, we will never defend using the Church, priesthood, or religious life as a cover for sexual or spiritual abuse.
Abuse often involves shame, keeping secrets, or fear of speaking the truth about terrifying experiences from the past. By going through the program within a supportive group dynamic, participants recognize that they all share many of the same wounds. The group becomes a powerful source of healing as they identify their life patterns that were rooted in abuse and their survivor modes and triggers that continue to hijack their nervous system into states of fight, flight, freeze, and collapse. As they practice new responses and untwist the lies of abuse, a great deal of fear, shame, and blame falls away.
Grief to GraceTM is a powerful psychological and spiritual journey that provides safety and hope in the midst of emotional chaos. It supplies a model of care that’s described as therapy for the soul. This effective and supportive healing process combines Living Scripture meditations, journaling, group discussion, facilitation, and somatic therapy using art, music, and body movement, as well as creative grief work.
Our retreat programs are offered in a safe, confidential, non-judgmental group format. Grief to Grace retreats are offered throughout the world.
Contact Us
If you or someone you love has suffered from abuse, you can reclaim your dignity and experience hope and healing. Call our hotline for immediate assistance: (610) 203-2002. If you would like to attend a Grief to GraceTM retreat, sponsor a participant, learn more about this program, or bring Grief to Grace to your area, contact us. We keep all your information in complete confidence.
Download our Grief to Grace Overview
Grief to Grace CD (for prior Grief to Grace Retreat participants only) [LARRY, PLEASE GET THE CD FROM THE OLD WEBSITE AND ENSURE IT HAS THE SAME PASSWORD FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD]