Welcome
Becoming someone you can trust.
The Work in Between helps you stop breaking trust with yourself in the moments that matter.
TRUST ISN'T BUILT BY KNOWING MORE
You already know what needs to happen.
The conversation. The boundary. The decision you keep circling.
You know - and you still don't act.
Do that enough times and something quietly breaks.
Not your confidence.
Not your intelligence.
Your trust in yourself to follow through on what you already know is true.
That's the erosion. It doesn't happen in one big failure. It happens in the small, ordinary moments where you knew and still didn't do it..
This isn't a confidence problem. It isn't a motivation problem. It's what happens in the space between knowing and doing- the space where trust is either built or broken.
That space has a name.
THE WORK IN BETWEEN
Pathways
For Your Organization
Bring me into your workplace, healthcare space, team, or community for workshops, trainings, and facilitated conversations that people will actually remember.
For Your Event
Invite me to speak at conferences, professional gatherings, healthcare events, and rooms that need more than another polished talk.
For Yourself
Step into The Work In Between through individual experiences, programs, pop-ups, and guided spaces designed to help you move from recognition to action.
Read the Book
Get the stories, hard-earned truth, and deeply annoying lessons behind learning to trust yourself again.
Listen to the Podcast
Hear the part of the story most people skip- what it actually took to move through fear, grief, shame, health, identity, and the messy work of becoming.
Meet Gretchen
Gretchen Norling-Holmes, PhD is not here to whisper affirmations into the void and call it transformation.
She is a three-time cancer survivor, health communication PhD, former stand-up comedian, author, podcast host, and professional pattern-spotter with a very low tolerance for pretending we don’t know what’s going on.
Her work lives at the intersection of lived experience, research, communication, and the deeply inconvenient truth that knowing better does not magically make you do better.
She brings the evidence. She brings the stories. She brings the “let’s stop lying to ourselves now” energy.
And somehow, she makes it feel like both a call-out and a hand on your back.
Social proof
Award-Winning Author
The Work in Between received the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for its honest, emotionally powerful approach to healing, resilience, and self-reinvention.
Reader-Recognized Voice
Readers describe Gretchen’s work as candid, courageous, approachable, and deeply human - the kind of writing that feels less like a lecture and more like someone finally saying the thing out loud.
Credibility With Teeth
Gretchen brings a rare mix of lived experience, health communication expertise, research-backed insight, and real-world pattern recognition.
Not Just Inspiration
This work does not turn healing into a tidy little bow. It names fear, shame, illness, loss, accountability, and the deeply inconvenient work of actually changing.