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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.
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