Writing Through Grief’s Open Door
When we love deeply,
We mourn deeply
What if you could find peace amidst sorrow by honoring your grief and connecting to a deep well of love? What if you could access compassion for yourself and tap into your creative spirit?
Walking with grief isn't easy
It can feel like an erratic companion, vanishing for a time and then returning unannounced with unexpected intensity. But by giving your emotions a voice and gently witnessing and expressing your sorrow with compassion, you can find support, reassurance, and affirmation for your life, helping you feel less isolated.
This can create a path toward feeling more stable and better able to navigate daily life, opening the way to love, meaning, and connection, even with your grief.
Writing Through Grief’s Open Door offers practices to bring you comfort and relief along the way.
You Will Discover Your Ability to ~
Witness your grief
Witness your grief with compassion and use writing to honor and explore the world of your feelings.
Create an altar of love
Create a personal altar of love to anchor you in your darker days and connect yourself, to what has been love, and to loved ones.
Discover that
validation is key
Discover that validation is key for connection and healing, as you define what healing means to you in your own way. Hey
Reignite your creative spark
Reignite your creative spark and gather seeds for creative inspiration that nourish you and your unique path.
Cultivate care & compassion for yourself
Cultivate self-care and self-compassion to wrap your arms around yourself in a way that feels good for you.
Embrace the 5 elements and nature
Embrace the 5 elements and nature as a source of healing-renewal, and connection that will carry your story with love.
Does This Sound Like You?
You’ve been silently carrying the heaviness of grief or exhaustion or caregiving.
You feel isolated in your sorrow, overwhelmed by its weight and presence.
You are unsure how to express it or what to do with it all.
You’ve been pushing through your emotions, covering them up, trying to get to the "other side."
You feel disconnected from yourself, your creativity, your peace, and your purpose.
You are alone without community and support.
You desperately hope to find relief.
Who Is This Course For?
Writing Through Grief’s Open Door invites you to step into a journey of the heart. The practices and wisdom provide avenues for self-expression to validate your feelings and nurture your grief with tenderness, creativity, and care. To define "healing" in your own way, and rediscover a love with peace, a wonder with communion, and a deep, creative connection.
Grieving Individuals looking for comfort, relief, and connection.
Caregivers who need support amidst their responsibilities.
Social Workers and Therapists seeking tools to help clients.
Creative Souls who want to turn sorrow into inspiration.
Anyone Feeling Lost & Overwhelmed by Stressed needing love, self-connection, and compassion.
kind words
Elizabeth combines a compassion for people with a true gift for healing that is rare to find. - Richard Lipton, Television Producer
Elizabeth provided me with concrete tools to ease me through a period of grief and loss. Her letter writing idea- one of many useful, soulful techniques – helped me to heal a hurting heart and go forward with my life with more joy and connectedness to my creative self. She really knows how to listen and can accomplish small miracles in even one session. - Jenny Phelps, Librarian
When I met with Elizabeth, I was blocked creatively, overwhelmed by to-do lists and responsibilities. All I said to her was, ‘I need help feeling creative again. I’m burned out.’ From that wonderful session with her, sprang forth a wealth of creative ideas. I put to use the suggestions she had to enhance my creative writing space and things to do to nourish my spirit. The creative spurt has not halted, thank Goodness. I thank Elizabeth. - Shy person requesting anonymity
Elizabeth’s lifetime experience of journaling is inspiring! Her presentation reminded me of the capacity of journaling to reveal soul’s purpose, the soul’s deepest longing to be of service. A delightful evening!
-Rita Marsh, Carbondale, CO. Davi Nikent Center for Human Flourishing
Thank you again for the inspiration to begin anew at journaling and for providing very powerful techniques to motivate the process. I have been writing! And it has helped mellow the emotions so that other ideas can flow, just as you said it would happen. I loved the “magic box of words” and the “letters to yourself” and the “starting point of the present” that really does get you started! I have already told several people about the workshop and have sent them to your website. Thank you again, Elizabeth. I got a lot out of it! -Joy Bell, workshop participant, Tempe, AZ
Right now, you might be:
Feeling untethered and unmoored, unsure how to navigate your emotions, or overwhelmed by life changes, with no time for yourself. Struggling with grief and exhaustion.
But imagine:
Feeling a sense of comfort and connection to the love you thought was lost.
Having gentle, heartfelt tools to honor your grief and its weight.
Having a sense of connection to your own heart again.
Finding moments of comfort and clarity in your day.
Gathering seeds of creative inspiration as a quiet source of strength.
Honoring your grief with tools to gently support your emotions.
Reconnecting with deeper meaning and purpose in your life.
Let's Make This Your Larger Reality
Writing Through Grief's Open Door was created so you could:
Move with grief and embrace greater self-compassion.
Use writing to connect to the love that feels lost.
Express and witness sorrow as a pathway to creative inspiration.
Build a personal altar of love to find communion within your heart, home, and soul.
Reawaken and welcome creative aspirations that have laid dormant.
Why now?
Grief touches all of us. Whether it’s personal loss, global uncertainty, or unexpected or anticipated life changes, it can feel isolating and overwhelming.
And at anniversaries and holidays, the weight of grief often grows heavier. Memories of loved ones, unrealized dreams, or unfulfilled expectations can make anniversaries, holidays, and the seasons "to be jolly," feel particularly tender.
Now is the time to wrap your arms around yourself, to hold yourself, and discover a path that is your unique way, even if it is the pathless path, a time for honoring and not fixing.
Writing Through Grief's Open Door: Honoring Grief, Connecting to Love offers a sanctuary, a safe and supportive space to let your feelings be, to let you be, however you are, without judgment. With compassionate tools, creative practices, and rest, this course helps you move with grief while connecting to love and meaning.
Welcome!
(Wendy Beth) – Elizabeth Welles (Shapiro)
Hi, I’m best known as Elizabeth Welles—a writer, storyteller, creativity mentor, journaling instructor, and meditation guide. For over 40 years, I’ve helped individuals navigate life’s challenges through writing, storytelling, and meditation, offering practices that support healing, creativity, and inner peace.
Grief is a path I have walked deeply, both personally and alongside others. After experiencing profound loss, I turn to writing—not to "get over it," but to hold my emotions with tenderness, rediscover love, and create a space where all feelings can be honored. Without a strong community around me at the time, I leaned on writing, ritual, and inner practices that became my lifeline.
As the author of Journaling for Well-Being & Peace and editor of Women Celebrate: The Gift in Every Moment, I’ve long explored the power of words to heal and enhance life all around us. My creative work spans multiple forms, from one-woman performances like Speak the Lands of My Heart to Luminous Visions, a collection of layered photography imbued with mystical presence. I’m also the creator of The Four Wisdoms of Creativity, The ISIS Method of Stress Reduction, and the podcast Unfathomable, which explores grief, spirit, and the mysteries of life.
Through Writing Through Grief’s Open Door, I share the tools and practices that support me and so many others. This course is an invitation—to write, to express yourself and honor your grief, and to find moments of comfort, creativity, and connection in the midst of loss. My hope is that these teachings offer you a sanctuary, a place to be as you are, and a pathway to rediscovering the love that never leaves.
What's Inside the Course?
Key Topics Include:
o The Power of Witnessing Grief
o Guidelines and Beginning Practice
o Writing with the Voice of Compassion TM
o Letter-Writing Magic
o Building a Personal Altar of Love
o Writing Across time
o Your Golden Heart
o Review, Wrap-up & Resources
Videos, Audios and PDFs & Bonuses:
1. Audio versions of the videos for easy listening.
2. Guided meditations with Loving Kindness.
3. Summarizing Worksheets
4. Additional videos, words, art, and article
5. Grief support resources
Value of the full package: $97
Your Price Today: $47
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Imagine One Week From Now ...
If you had tools to honor your grief when it visits—practices to engage in a loving conversation with loss, with loved ones, with what has felt or been lost?
Imagine no longer feeling blindsided by sorrow but instead meeting it with grounded awareness, creativity, and care. Picture yourself identifying what you feel, honoring your body’s needs, and discovering the deep well of love that surrounds you.
With this course, you'll gain a quiet, compassionate path forward—one built on creativity, connection, and love.
You can make this vision real !
Writing Through Grief's Open Door: Honoring Grief, Connecting to Love
What if you could find peace amidst your sorrow—honoring your grief and connecting to a well of deep love? Regularly $97
Now $47