A grove of trees represents a community. Trees in a grove are a unified group of individuals that communicate through natural networks to share resources, nurturing supportive relationships that contribute to the overall health and welfare of the group. Alone, a tree is at the mercy of its context, subject to extremes of wind, drought, pestilence, and weather. But together, a grove of trees forms a powerful collective that benefits each individual tree, moderating the extremes in the environment and increasing the capacity for resilience and long-term success.

Likewise, The Grove Collective is designed to bring people together to share experiences and resources that provide support, promote balance, improve individual well-being, connect you with your community, and push you outside of your comfort zone.

It’s all too easy to feel overwhelmed by the demands of our busy modern lives – in our frenetic busyness, we feel fragmented, disconnected, off-kilter, isolated, and untethered. Our objective at The Grove Collective is to provide you with opportunities to learn, connect, grow, and thrive. Our hope is that together we can support and empower each one of us to find the restoration, resilience, and rootedness to flourish.

We’re Jane and Vanessa.

Friends for over 35 years, we’ve been through a lot together. From being neighbours and school friends at 6 years old, to being colleagues in the corporate world in our late 30s, and most recently both being diagnosed with breast cancer within one month of each other. To say the least, we’ve seen a lot, and this past year we were thankful to have one another to lean on through treatments and cancer journies. We’re both moms to busy, active kids, and partners to our equally busy and active husbands, and are currently both getting used to shaping our lives through our new lens of cancer survivorship. 

In our conversations, we recognized that we shared a sense of perpetual overwhelm – our lives had become so busy that the strain was starting to show. We felt exhausted and disconnected, and our conversations with friends and family members made us realize that for many people, this way of being had become the norm. We felt the growing need for a space offering support – somewhere that could help us all navigate the day-to-day and make us feel a little less alone in the wilderness. The Grove Collective is that space – an online ecosystem that provides resources and insight to assist in making our lives richer, more balanced, and bolder.

We hope you find what you need here.