WHOLE SOUL STUDIO
Body | Soul | Spirit
ZERO ART SKILLS NEEDED
Heal Your Nervous System.
Restore Emotional Wholeness.
This Is Not a Program. It’s a Pilgrimage.
I guide Christian women through an embodied healing pilgrimage—rooted in story, art, rhythm, and Spirit—so they can move out of survival and into sustainable wholeness.
IF YOU’RE HERE, YOU’RE PROBABLY FEELING…
Called to step into your full potential and express who you truly are
Like something inside you wants to be seen, known, and celebrated
Ready to move beyond old patterns and live with clarity, presence, and purpose
Drawn to reclaim your inner vision and cultivate a life that feels fully your own
Excited to create, explore, and embody your story in a way that transforms how you experience life
This is not about fixing what’s broken. It’s about reclaiming your soul, expanding your inner world, and aligning with your deepest creative, emotional, and spiritual truths.
AND YOU ARE READY TO FEEL
The full depth of your own story without judgment or limitation
The power of your inner vision and creative potential
A sense of clarity, alignment, and presence in every aspect of your life
How it feels to step fully into your truth and live from your soul
The joy, aliveness, and freedom that come when your inner world and outer life are in harmony
This is your invitation to experience your inner world as sacred, expressive, and expansive.
To move forward in a way that feels deeply yours.
Why a Pilgrimage, Not a Program
Programs are designed to move you through content.
Pilgrimage is designed to move you.
This work cannot be rushed, optimized, or checked off. Emotional and nervous-system healing requires time, embodiment, and gentle repetition—allowing the soul and body to integrate what the mind already knows.
Some women arrive here after seasons that reshaped them quietly and deeply.
Some arrive after life changes they never expected to survive.
This pilgrimage is not about fixing you.
It is about meeting yourself fully — through art, prayer, ritual, and ceremony — and stepping into the wholeness God has been patiently forming within you.
This is not a program, this is a pilgrimage of the soul.
Why Women Choose This Journey
• Transformation without pressure or prior art experience
• A Christ-centered spiritual path that honors the body and soul
• Ritualized structure that marks growth and becoming
• Tangible, beautiful keepsakes delivered to your home
• Optional in-person ceremonies and alumni gatherings
• A pilgrimage that respects your pace and autonomy
About Your Pilgrimage Guide
Shelley Henk — Nurse Turned “Artist of the Soul”
I am a nurse by training—and a witness by life.
At twenty-six, I walked through the unthinkable: the loss of my father to suicide. I learned firsthand how grief, trauma, and unresolved emotion live not only in the mind, but in the body. Years later, despite doing everything “right,” my own health began to unravel. My nervous system was profoundly dysregulated, and no amount of clinical knowledge or spiritual effort could override what my body was holding.
That breaking became an initiation.
I returned to school, stepped away from traditional healthcare, and devoted myself to whole-person healing. I became a Whole Health Educator and Coach and went on to build a successful health coaching practice, helping over a thousand people restore their physical health through a physician-led program. Yet even then, something essential was missing.
People didn’t need more information.
They didn’t need another protocol.
They needed a way to walk their healing.
What I discovered—through my own recovery and through years of guiding others—is that lasting transformation requires less clinical mastery and more creative wisdom. Less pushing for change, more presence with what is true. Healing needed a pilgrimage, not a program.
This work was created from the path I had to walk without a map. Today, I guide women through a slow, embodied, Spirit-led journey that honors the nervous system, restores emotional wholeness, and reconnects faith to the body where it was always meant to live.
I don’t offer quick fixes.
I offer a path I know by heart.
Shelley‘s God given gift to help women walk out this journey is worth more than its weight in gold.
— Michelle Maxwell
Finding Beautiful School of YOU™
A Soul Purpose Pilgrimage for Women Ready for What’s Next
After the breaking, you step into yourself.
Shelley‘s God given gift to help women walk out at the School of YOU is this journey is worth more than its weight in gold.
— Michelle Maxwell
This pilgrimage is inspired by the Gate Called Beautiful (Acts 3) — a sacred place of encounter, healing, and wholeness. Here, the body, mind, and soul integrate as you are guided through your inner landscapes into the fullness of who God created you to be.
“My time with her exceeded any expectations and the outcome is invaluable.”
-Ashton Greer
The Creator’s Way™
The Four Elements of Wholeness
This pilgrimage follows The Creator’s Way™ —
a living, embodied rhythm revealed in nature, scripture, and the human soul.
Feel · Heal · Dream · Create
These are not concepts.
They are sacred thresholds — guiding you back into alignment with your body, your story, and God’s presence within you.
This is how wholeness is remembered.
The Four Elements
FEEL — Ground in Your Body
You begin by returning to the body — the place where truth lives.
This season restores emotional connection, energy, and inner safety.
You receive a symbolic vessel to mark your awakening.
Guided prayer supports honest feeling and gentle release, meeting God within the sensing body.
HEAL — Release & Transform
Here, what you have carried begins to move.
Pain softens into clarity.
Grief reshapes into wisdom.
You receive a symbolic vial of renewal.
Prayer accompanies release, inviting God’s presence to transform what no longer serves.
DREAM — Expand Your Vision
As space opens, vision returns.
This season restores imagination, courage, and direction, revealing what is yours to carry forward.
You receive a symbolic feather to honor vision and calling.
Prayer strengthens discernment, grounding desire in God’s guidance.
CREATE — Embody & Celebrate
This is where becoming takes form.
You integrate your story, healing, and vision through ceremonial art-making and embodied expression.
You receive a symbolic flame marking transformation.
Prayer and creative practice honor the sacred work of becoming fully yourself.
The Culmination
The journey concludes with the Finding Beautiful Feast Celebration —
a ritual honoring your transformation and creative offering.
This is not an ending.
It is a crossing.
Each video is intentionally crafted, leading you through a cinematic pilgrimage back to yourself.
Pathways to Wholeness
Finding Beautiful School of YOU™ meets you where you are:
Finding Beautiful™ Online Pilgrimage
Investment: Pay in full $1,497
4 easy payments of $375
additional monthly payment plans at checkout
A fully ceremonial, self-guided video lesson journey you complete from home — at your own pace, over the course of a year, with a new element released every 12 weeks.
This pilgrimage is complete on its own.
In-person gatherings and mentorship are optional enhancements — never requirements.
Includes:
• 32 cinematic lessons released across the Four Elements (a new element every three months)
• Four Artful Storywork™ Boxes, mailed to your home — each includes:
– Curated paints, brushes, and canvas
– Symbolic tokens for each element
– Handwritten reflections
– Original artwork from Shelley
• Reflection guides to deepen insight and integration
• Private community space for gentle sharing and connection
This journey allows you to listen deeply, move slowly, and create honestly — without performance or pressure.
Apply to Begin Your Pilgrimage
Finding Beautiful™ One to One Pilgrimage
Premium Mentorship - Very Limited
Private Pilgrimage + Mastery
Investment: $6,497
Payment plans available
Application required · Spots extremely limited
For women seeking the deepest level of intimacy, discernment, and spiritual accompaniment.
This option pairs the full pilgrimage with private, prayer-infused mentorship and creative guidance.
Includes:
• Weekly one-on-one mentorship with Shelley
• Personalized reflection, creative direction, and prayerful support
• Access to four seasonal in-person gatherings listed below.
• Custom original painting by Shelley reflecting your journey (optional add-on)
This is for women ready to be deeply accompanied as they cross a threshold.
If you desire, you can commit to one Element at a time at your own pace. Start with the FEEL ELEMENT ONLY
(12 weeks of one to one support, does not include in person gathering $1,497, may purchase for additional investment.
Apply for Premium Mentorship
How It Works
Submit a short, private application
Shelley personally reviews each request for alignment
If aligned, you’ll receive access details and optional upgrade information
This is an application — not a booking.
You are not being evaluated.
You are being welcomed.
Optional Upgrade: In-Person Ceremonial Gatherings
Investment: $1,200 for all four gatherings (save $200)
or $350 per gathering
payment plans available at checkout
Step Into Your Living Pilgrimage with In-Person Ceremonial Gatherings. Connect with a small group of other soul sisters on this path.
The Finding Beautiful™ pilgrimage comes alive when you step into the landscapes where it was filmed. Every path, river bend, and moss-covered cavern is intentionally chosen to reflect the energy of the Four Elements of Wholeness.
Seasonal Schedule & Locations:
Feel – April: Moss-filled cavern, a quiet, grounding space for reflection and sensory connection
Heal – July: Wandering river, flowing energy to release, cleanse, and restore
Dream – October: Hilltop summit, expansive views to vision your next chapter
Create + Graduation Feast – March/April: Forested campfire, a ceremonial space to honor your journey and celebrate transformation
Attend one, several, or all four
Limited spots per gathering to preserve intimate, boutique experience
Alumni invitations available separately
What You’ll Experience:
Step fully into a living pilgrimage: move through cavern, river, summit, and campfire spaces — each reflecting your body, soul, and creative journey
Guided creative practices with brushes, canvas, and symbolic tokens
Ceremonial rituals marking the completion of each element
Connection with a small, intentional group of women sharing energy, stories, and transformation
Keepsakes and artful reflections honoring your growth
Opportunity to walk together as a group on your pilgrimage, like a real living pilgrimage
This is more than painting. Every step, brushstroke, and token is infused with sacred intention, inviting God’s presence to guide your journey through a living, breathing landscape that mirrors your inner pilgrimage.
Step Into Your Living Pilgrimage
Special Offerings
• Retreats
• Workshops
• Commissioned Art
Have a custom vision?
Let’s Connect.
Your Invitation
Healing does not always come from answers.
Sometimes it comes from entering a space designed for you to feel, create, pray, and be seen.
This is your invitation back to yourself —
and to the Creator who has been walking with you all along.
“The “Finding Beautiful School of YOU” transformed my mess into meaning and left me feeling empowered and proud of who I am."
— Jessica Smith Dos Santos
Our Values
Connection — Deep relationships with God, self, and others.
Creativity — Art, prayer, and ritual as medicine and a way home.
Adventure — Courage to explore the unknown.
Authenticity — Show up fully and reclaim your story as it is.
Step into the Finding Beautiful School of YOU™
Return to the Creator.
Awaken.
Dream.
Create.
Stories of Return
“She’s not afraid to ask the tough questions that evoke deeper thoughts/emotions and she connects authentically with others. Her wisdom is beyond her years and I value her guidance in the importance of connecting my body, mind and spirit to live my most abundant life."
— Kim Henry
“Working with Shelley, “Artist of the Soul” was such an incredible way to embrace the darks and the lights of my life and learn how they have complimented one another to create the woman that I am today. The “Finding Beautiful School of YOU” transformed my mess into meaning and left me feeling empowered and proud of who I am."
— Jessica Smith Dos Santos
“For years I’ve searched for someone to help me understand & navigate my history while pushing me to LIVE forward. So many past experiences have walked me through the past, but left me stuck there. Shelley teaches methods to help deal with the triggers, yet keep moving forward so I can honor who I am at my core while acknowledging the feelings and emotions that come along with it. No more suppression. No more numbness."
— Emily Byrnes
“I love how Shelley weaves art, science & spirituality into our broken stories at the Finding Beautiful School of YOU. Helping us bring beauty forth. Shelley guides us past the healing stage, I felt stuck in. Her vision helped me awaken my God sized Dreams & this beautiful Artful Storywork healed my broken stories. So grateful.”
— Lisa Spokis
“Shelley helped break off me long held beliefs about God and myself that relegated me to believing I would always be last to receive. What a joy for that thinking to be gone! In just two short hours burdens, limiting beliefs, and some “stinking’ thinkin’ I didn’t even know I had was destroyed! Not only does Shelley know what she is doing she makes you feel that the most important thing she has to do at that moment is be in front of you. It was an amazing experience!”
— Dan Thomas
“Shelley helps you realize through her past experiences, that you too can bust through the barrier of pain and see suffering and see with beauty and purpose. She shares how looking backward to unearth your story allows you to let go and embrace forgiveness, love, and purpose to move forward."
— Katie Hurley
“Shelley Henk has helped me go from “hot mess” to finding my joy with purpose and passion! She has helped me rewrite my story learning to love who I once was and focus on who God created me to be. Helping me awaken to new possibilities, gain clarity on the future I want to create and empowering me take action to live an abundant and beautiful future!"
— Andrea Farrell
Closing
The work does not ask to be understood.
It asks to be encountered.
If something here resonates,
you are already in relationship with it.
Welcome home.
Disclaimer
The services, programs, and creative practices offered through Whole Soul Studio, including Artful Storywork™, are for educational, personal growth, and creative expression purposes only. They are not a substitute for medical, psychological, or mental health treatment. Always consult with your physician or qualified health provider regarding any physical or mental health concerns. Participation in coaching, retreats, or creative sessions is voluntary, and results may vary based on individual effort, readiness, and circumstances.
Contact Us
Interested in working together for something other than the Finding Beautiful School of YOU? Shelley would love to explore any creative ideas you have to bring Artful Storywork to you or the people you serve. Fill out some info and we will be in touch shortly. We can’t wait to hear from you!