Books & Resources
Writing to awaken.
Books for loving, healing, creating, connecting, and becoming more fully yourself.
Deborah Marie Grace writes at the intersection of relationships, sensuality, healing, creativity, and the beautifully complicated experience of being human.
The Couple's Collection
Two Guides with mindsets and tools for improving every aspect of your partnership.
Deborah Grace has taken her thousands of clinical hours working with couples and distilled them into an easy to understand foundation for having an incredible partnership.
BOOKS BY DEBORAH
A life in words.
Poetry, personal stories, and creative explorations from a life spent noticing, questioning, healing, loving, and becoming.
SEX POEMS
POETRY
Sex Poems is a kaleidoscope of lust and love. Grace invites the reader into the world of a woman who deeply experiences life from sexual obsession to the familiarities of marriage, to juggling what it is to be a lover and mother.
LOVEĀ POEMS
POETRY
Full of wisdom, longing, healing and humor, Love Poems reminds us that yearning, giving and passionately feeling are what constitutes a life worth living.
The Mother Ship
POETRY
A collection of poems celebrating the experience of losing and finding yourself in anything you give your heart to. The Mother Ship relates to everyone regardless of whether they are parents, as it focuses on the universal themes of being in relationship...
Violet the Band
MEMOIR
A full color feast with almost ninety quality pictures documenting the journey of three women who set out to create a rock n roll band in the fulcrum of their lives. Along the way they discovered the process was the most fun they'd yet to have.
What Would Aphrodite Do?
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
One woman finds herself and happiness by invoking the goddess of love
Tango
POETRY
Stories of Desire in Poetry is a kaleidoscope of lust and love. Grace invites the reader into the world of a woman who deeply experiences life from sexual obsession to the familiarities of marriage, to juggling what it is to be a lover and mother.
Year of Nectar
POETRY
Commemorates the tests and triumphs of a year deeply lived. Deborah Grace assumes everything matters, from buying the right size underwear to hearing police sirens to the whistle of tea kettles.
Year of the Root
POETRY
Deborah explores what it means to sit with others at their most vulnerable, open to her own stirrings, longings and deep truths as she is touched by humanity's capacity for both suffering and salvation.
Year of Flight
POETRY
Chronicles a calendar year as only a poet in love with the world can. Join Deborah Grace as she renders the mundane, from grocery hens to choosing paint for her bathroom, miraculous.
Year of the Pomegranate
POETRY
Touches on universal themes from romantic love to death of a family member, all the while grounding the reader in the natural world of the human and animal body, the rhythms of the seasons and soul.
Year of theĀ Thunder
POETRY
Sweeps the human race, from personal themes such as jealousy and forgiveness, sex and family love, to societal challenges and changes, always affirming compassion and connection.
Year of theĀ Pearl
RELATIONSHIPS & INTIMACY
Rediscover the play, passion, and pleasure that brought you together. Drawing from thousands of hours working with couples, Deborah explores three essential relationship needs: to feel cherished and romanced, to experience adventure and growth, and to feel safe, nurtured, and deeply cared for.
Kiss Me, Bite Me, Pet Me: The Playbook
GUIDED PLAYBOOK
Turn the ideas of Kiss Me, Bite Me, Pet Me into meaningful experiences together. This companion playbook invites couples to explore their desires, deepen connection, spark playful conversations, and discover new ways to bring more passion, pleasure, and care into their relationship.
Have Me, Hold Me
RELATIONSHIPS & INTIMACY
A thriving partnership needs both the freedom to be fully yourself and the safety of knowing you are deeply loved. Have Me, Hold Me explores the mindsets and tools that help couples cultivate authenticity, connection, healing, and a stronger foundation for lasting intimacy.
Have Me HoldĀ Me: The Playbook
GUIDED PLAYBOOK
Take the ideas of Have Me, Hold Me from the page into your relationship. Through thoughtful prompts, conversations, and shared experiences, this companion playbook helps couples explore authenticity, deepen connection, strengthen emotional safety, and create more intentional ways of loving one another.
MORE TO COME
More stories and exploration ahead.
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