The Companion Guide for Trusting Your Inner Voice
Silencing the Inner Critic
Your Way to Freedom & Creative Self-Expression
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This companion guide is the next step.
It’s designed to help you notice your inner critic when it shows up,
and step into your own voice with confidence and clarity.
Understanding the inner critic is one thing.
Facing it in the moment, and choosing your own creativity and truth over the doubt,
is what opens the door to freedom, courage, and fearless expression.
This Companion is for You if:
You’re ready to reclaim your creativity and connection to your voice from self-doubt, without waiting for the critic to disappear.
You:
Get stuck in self-judgment, second-guessing, or fear of how your work will be received
Notice your inner critic interrupting projects, expression, or joy
Carry grief, regret, or old patterns that replay or loop in your mind
Feel that understanding alone hasn’t been enough, and you want practical, grounded practices
Want to move forward even when the critic shows up
Be ready to lead from your inner life with more authority, clarity, and care
This is not about fixing yourself or removing the critic entirely.
It’s about learning how to work with it, contain it, and reclaim the energy bound up in criticism so your creativity, joy, and self-expression can flourish.
What This Companion Guide Gives You
Guided practices to interrupt the critic as it’s happening
Clear ways to name, contain,
and redirect critical energy
Gentle daily resets and reminders to help you return to clarity, agency, and self-trust
What This Companion Gives You:
Guided practices to interrupt the critic as it’s happening
Clear ways to name, contain, and redirect critical energy
Two distinct approaches you can choose from:
a reflective, slower practice for depth and insight
a direct, immediate reset for moments when the critic is loud or urgent
Creative reframing inspired by Rilke, turning criticism into raw material rather than resistance
Gentle daily resets and reminders to help you return to clarity, agency, and self-trust
This is not about silencing yourself.
It’s about learning how to stay present, creative, and grounded even when the critic shows up.
It’s about letting your inner voice and the voice of love speak until criticism loses its power to interrupt your life and work.
Does This Sound Like You?
Get stuck in self-judgment, second-guessing, or fear of how your work will be received
Notice your inner critic interrupting projects, expression, or joy
Carry grief, regret, or old patterns that replay or loop in your mind
Feel that understanding alone hasn’t been enough, and you want practical, grounded practices
Want to move forward even when the critic shows up
Be ready to lead from your inner life with more authority, clarity, and care
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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
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Welcome!
Wendy-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.
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 Writing Across Time
o Building a Personal Altar of Love
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
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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 !
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