Books by Grant and Christine Wattie

A fable about the face we are given, the one we learn to sell, and finding our way back to the first one.

Wil is eleven when a travelling painter teaches him that a smile can be sold. He grows up to become a gilder, covering people in gold so the world will see them as they would rather be seen. The work makes him wealthy. While Wil perfects the faces of others, he slowly loses sight of his own. His sister writes. His wife waits. His daughter learns exactly where she sits in her father's ledger. At the rail of a ship, a child asks him a question he cannot answer: who keeps yours?

An exploration of what it means to stop performing and start inhabiting your own life, especially for men in the second half who've traded presence for the hollow performance of competence.

The Audition is the book I wrote toward for a long time. It's about the Director in the mind who drives relentless achievement, and what happens when you finally stop auditioning for a role nobody asked you to play. It's for men who've built everything on the outside and are beginning to sense the cost of that on the inside. About presence as an irreplaceable asset. About the King Move: admitting mid-performance that you've been hiding. Personal, direct, and written for anyone who knows what it is to succeed at everything except being fully there.

For couples in crisis. A fast-track, proven system for going from breakdown to breakthrough, written for couples who don't have time to wait.

I wrote The Phoenix Protocol for the couples who arrive saying they've tried everything and nothing has worked. It's the book version of the intensive crisis work we do in person. The same principles, the same approach, available to anyone who needs it right now. Direct, honest, and built for urgency.

A story for adults and children. A gentle tale about belonging, courage, and remembering who you have always been.

Oscar the Eagle Who Thought He Was a Turkey is a warm chapter book about belonging and becoming who you already are. Oscar is raised in the barnyard, taught to gobble, scratch, and peck at the ground, yet whenever he looks up at the sky something in him stirs. When he meets Thomas, a quiet eagle who sees more than he says, everything begins to change. Through gentle lessons and a few bumps along the way, Oscar discovers what he was never going to learn in the barnyard: that becoming who you truly are does not come from trying harder, it comes from trusting what has been inside you all along. A gentle story for children, and for the adults who read with them.