Paula Gamble-Grant
Certified Spiritual Director and Supervisor
Paula is the founder and Chief Executive Saunterer of reFresh.
With over thirty years in non-profit ministry experience leadership, pain, and blessing, Paula has worked and lived and travelled all over the world helping to shepherd and provide soul care for exhausted people doing good work. She has made a career out of studying busyness as she has seen firsthand the detriments of hurry-sickness on her own life and the many to whom she ministers.
As a self-described “Occupatologist” (One who studies busyness), she is committed to helping come alongside people to help them slow their frenzy and find their fully alive - first in God’s Deep Delight and second in discovering and living out their own unique God-Poem.
Paula is a sought after international speaker and retreat leader - offering a unique (slower and more quiet) experience than the more typical noisy and busy weekend getaways. She has worked with Cru, Salvation Army, InterVarsity, the Franciscan Spiritual Center, United Methodists, Scarlet Cord Ministries, Imago Dei Ministries, Agape UK, Imago Christi, Crosspoint Ministries, Agape Lithuania, Novo, and with many leaders of various denominations and professions.
Paula has also authored two books on Kindle - her best-selling Lenten devotional: “unhurryUp into Easter: A Lenten Pilgrimage” and “A Wild and Precious Advent.” Both are currently available in the Kindle store. And you can participate in her FREE online course, 21 days to unhurryUp! Your Hustle or her Being Okay and Building Resilience Course, to help you deepen in the Love and Delight of God and Living.
As a Spiritual Director, Supervisor and Transformational Entrepreneur, Paula currently lives near Vancouver, WA and saunters, lingers and frolics daily with some of her favorite people (and pets) - her husband Stephen Grant and her favorite distractions, Satchmo, new puppy, Soji, Chiara, Cesco and Pace and Bene. And, on a sunny day, you may even find her on a back country road riding her motorcycle!
Stephen Grant
Therapist (LMHC, WA; DV Certified; CSAT, Accelerated Resolution Therapy Qualified), Pastor & Soul Artisan
Stephen knows well the experience of falling unceremoniously from the heights of the pulpit. After spending 13 years in ministry, Stephen experienced what many pastors, ministry leaders and evangelists experience: a fall from grace because he couldn’t find the help he needed. It’s his personal experience and clear vision for how to support churches, ministers, and ministry families that led to the formation of Gracefall.
Stephen often says that, when he dies, he hopes his family places the words “A Rebel for Love” on his gravestone. He has a deep, passionate way of loving others, and he often colors outside the lines to do so. That allows him to help bring those who are struggling back from the brink of ruin.
Stephen grew up a preacher and missionary’s kid and so he understands the complexities of growing up in a ministry fishbowl. Because of this, Stephen is well-prepared to give assistance to ministers’ families as well.
Stephen is a licensed therapist in the state of Washington and graduated from The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology with a Masters in Counseling Psychology in 2016. He is not a behaviorist, but believes in and practices a relational, psychodynamic therapy. A skill that helps as he and his clients trevail the complicated relationships within a church. Stephen is a certified Domestic Violence Perpetrator Counselor through the State of Washington, a Certified Sexual Addiction Counselor (CSAT), and a qualified Accelerated Resolution Therapist, committed to memory reconsolidation to deal with unaddressed trauma in his clients’ lives.