DISCOVER your
WHOLENESS
Experience Spiritual Freedom, Mental Peace, & Vibrant Health
Welcome to
Whole Soul Studio
Guided by Shelley Henk, RN, BSN, Whole Health Educator, Healing Artist
Guiding 1,000+ women toward wholeness - featured on PBS Medical Stories.
Awaken freedom, clarity, and vitality and step fully into the dream God has for you.
At Whole Soul Studio, Shelley guides you on a Christ-centered journey of self-discovery, healing, and personal growth, helping you nurture both inner and outer harmony. Through the integration of holistic wellness practices and creative, therapeutic art, she creates sacred space for you to reconnect with yourself and with God, explore true self-love rooted in your divine identity, and access deep emotional and spiritual healing. With an artful and Spirit-led approach, Whole Soul Studio empowers you to awaken compassionate self-awareness, restore inner strength, and realign your life with God’s divine design for wholeness.
Meet Your Guide
Shelley Henk, RN, BSN — “Artist of the Soul”
Founder of Whole Soul Studio™ & Creator of Artful Storywork™
Discover what becomes possible when you reclaim your wholeness.
Shelley is leading a New Renaissance of body, soul, and spirit—a movement calling women, visionaries, and Kingdom creators back to their original design of freedom, beauty, and alignment.
A Registered Nurse turned Certified Whole Health Educator and Healing Artist, Shelley blends science, spirit, and creativity to guide clients beyond stress and fragmentation into wholeness. Through her holistic approach, God’s children break free from stress, release trauma, and step fully into their God-given potential.
Shelley has helped over 1,000 people experience breakthrough and transformation through therapeutic art and whole-person wellness practices. Her work has been featured in the PBS documentary Medical Stories: Under Control, and she is the co-author of Just Say No: 14 Transformational Keys to Set Healthy Boundaries in Business and Relationships, written for faith-based entrepreneurs and Kingdom builders.
“Shelley believes your story carries medicine — and when you learn to FEEL it, HEAL it, DREAM it, and CREATE from it, you step into the dream God designed for you.”
SCIENCE SOUL SPIRIT
Empowering Women, Visionary Leaders, Kingdom Creators, & Organizations
The tears could not Stop flowing as I was being ministered to and painting my Artful Storywork Painting. My heart was opened and I revisited moments in my life that I never thought I would ever talk about publicly, but it happened. I cannot explain or describe the feeling of restoration and healing that I feel.”
KD Sanders
My time with her exceeded any expectations and the outcome is invaluable. I see my story clearly now and I am better equipped to move forward and make beauty from ashes.
Ashton Greer
My experience with Shelley has been extraordinary. The depth and sensitivity and knowledge that Shelley brings to the table is exactly what I needed.
Kim LaPilusa
SCIENCE SPIRIT CREATIVITY
Unlock Your Highest Potential
Release the beliefs, behaviors, and patterns that limit your health, growth, relationships, and professional lives.
Whether you’re ready to:
Transform your relationships
Reduce stress and overwhelm
Elevate your health and vitality
Thrive professionally or in ministry
Or simply experience more freedom and joy
You’ll discover tools, practices, and profound insight in every offering, designed to help you step fully into your God given creative power.
HEAD HEART BODY
We Are For the ONE
We are for the ONE who dares to feel deeply.
We are for the ONE who chooses to heal wholeheartedly.
We are for the ONE who dreams boldly and creates fearlessly.
We are for the ONE ready to stop striving & live abundantly.
SAFETY FORGIVENESS SURRENDER
You are usually the Strong ONE but….
Lately You Have Been Feeling:
Disconnected from who you REALLY are...
Worried you've lost yourself...
Unsure what this next chapter of life is about...
Struggling to feel alive and vibrant...
And You're Longing To:
Feel joyful about your life...
Find your purpose again...
To feel alive, vibrant, and whole...
Whole Soul Studio was made for YOU
CONNECTION ADVENTURE AUTHENTICITY
“I didn’t realize how stuck I was until I felt my story in my hands, on the page, and in color. It was life-changing.”
Jessica S.
YOUR WOUNDS ARE NOT IN THE WAY, THEY ARE THE WAY TO YOUR HIGHEST CALLING
Artful Storywork™ powerfully transform the body, brain, and behavior.
It’s more than making art, it’s about creating space for transformation to happen naturally. Studies show that imagining your success makes you 42% more likely to achieve it. With Artful Storywork, often in a single session, transformation happens.
FINDING BEAUTIFUL
School of YOU™
NOT A PROGRAM | A CHRIST INSPIRED PILGRIMAGE BACK TO YOUR WHOLENESS
BODY SOUL SPIRIT
“The School of YOU is so worth it! Using art to draw my past, seeing what is in my head on canvas in front of me has put an entire new perspective on my life story. I have gone from guarded and defensive, to being at peace and feeling loved by God. I’m ready to create my new story!”
— Jennifer Taylor
Be the truest, most whole expression of your life
CHANGE YOUR STORY. CHANGE YOUR WHOLE LIFE.
Live group sessions with Shelley
1 year access to Member forum + peer support + recordings
Transformational tools sent right to your doorstep
Artful Storywork™ is the missing key that unlocks your wholeness, it is a compass that reconnects body, soul, and spirit, revealing your path forward naturally.
Experience a profound transformation where your God-given vision becomes a living masterpiece. Evidence shows that therapeutic art like Artful Storywork can reduce symptoms of anxiety, depression, and trauma by up to 50%, helping you unlock a life of peace, purpose, and lasting legacy.
ARTFUL STORYWORK™
I love how Shelley weaves art, science & spirituality into our broken stories. 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
NOT ABOUT MAKING ART, ITS ABOUT MAKING SPACE FOR TRANSFORMATION TO HAPPEN.
Unearth the hidden stories keeping you stuck
Cultivate what is true
Create what is new
CREATIVITY IS DIVINE MEDICINE
RETREATS & IMMERSIONS
EXPERIENCE REST, RENEWAL, & REVIVAL OF SOUL
Come to one of our scheduled retreats
Plan a retreat or immersion at your location
Plan a private experience just for you.
Every experience guides you to reconnect with the Spirit within, restore your energy, and revive your soul. Through Artful Storywork™, your body, soul, and spirit align, unlocking freedom, clarity, and wholeness.
SPEAKING
CORPORATE & CHURCH OFFERINGS
Inspire Your Leaders & Improve The Wellbeing of the People You Serve
Motivate your team with something fun and transformational
Bring Trauma Informed Mental Wellness to your organization
Care for the Soul of your people
“Shelley brought powerful insights into our emotions and their importance in our healing journey. She encouraged us to tell our stories to gain freedom and healing from the past. We gained valuable understanding into trauma’s affects upon our neurobiology and how it effects the way we see and interact in our lives.”
—Michelle Harding, Sr. Leader Church of the King, Easton, MD
WHOLENESS GUIDE
HOLISTIC GUIDENCE
Demystify symptoms of stress and stress related chronic disease
Learn to support and nourish the metabolic and cellular needs of the body when under stress
Holistically improve Mental Peace, & Physical Vitality
Through her teaching, guidance, and encouragement, Shelley helped me reverse my Type 2 diabetes. Proper diet and moderate exercise have resulted in a sustainable change. No medications, and I feel great!”
— Vern Bergkoetter
“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 also 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
The Four Elements of Wholeness™
A Step by Step Path to Wholeness
FEEL → HEAL → DREAM → CREATE
Each step transforms fracture into beauty, confusion into clarity, and disconnection into wholeness. By the end, you don’t just discover yourself—you become the truest, most whole expression of your life.
What People Are Saying
“Shelley has extraordinary gifts of wisdom, creative expression, and truthful compassion. She will guide you through your story in safety and help you find clarity. My time with her exceeded any expectations and the outcome is invaluable. I see my story clearly now and I am better equipped to move forward and make beauty from ashes. I am so grateful for her sharing her gifts with the world.”
— Ashton Greer
“Shelley‘s God given gift to help women walk out this journey is worth more than its weight in gold. The safe space, her methodology, her wisdom, and her guidance through the Holy Spirit is strong and evident in every lesson.”
— Michelle Maxwell
“My experience with Shelley as my Whole Soul coach has been extraordinary. The depth and sensitivity and knowledge that Shelley brings to the table is exactly what I needed. She helps me connect dots that needed to be connected. She made me feel accepted and normal and encouraged on my journey.”
— Kim LaPilusa
Wholeness is the experience of being fully & authentically alive.
Where there is grief, joy can rise. Where there is anxiety, creativity can flow. Where there is depression, play can return. Where there is sorrow, celebration can sing. Where there is disease, health can rise. Where dreams are dormant, hope can awaken. And where there is brokenness, beauty can break forth.
“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."
— 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
“Shelley brought powerful insights into our emotions and their importance in our healing journey. She encouraged us to tell our stories to gain freedom and healing from the past. We gained valuable understanding into trauma’s affects upon our neurobiology and how it effects the way we see and interact in our lives.”
—Michelle Harding, Sr. Leader Church of the King, Easton, MD
“Through her teaching, guidance, and encouragement, Shelley helped me reverse my Type 2 diabetes. Proper diet and moderate exercise have resulted in a sustainable change. No medications, and I feel great!”
— Vern Bergkoetter
“She’s not afraid to ask the tough questions that evoke deeper thoughts/emotions and she connects authenticity 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 “Artist of the Soul” session transformed my mess into meaning and left me feeling empowered and proud of who I am."
— Jessica Smith Dos Santos
Book “Just Say No”
14 Transformational Keys to Set Healthy Boundaries in Business and Relationships
Studio Offerings
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A grace based, Spirit Led, Biblically inspired sacred whole person pilgrimage for women ready to heal, transform, and grow body, soul, and spirit.
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Discover your story, reclaim your creativity, and step into wholeness through guided reflection, creative expression, story, and soulful exercises — no painting required. This experience helps you uncover clarity, release what holds you back, free your emotions, and step into your beautiful and whole life.
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Dive deeper into your story through guided painting and creative exploration. Express your inner world visually while uncovering clarity, healing, and self-discovery. This immersive experience blends reflection, ritual, and art to help your story take form on the canvas and in your life.
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A guided Artful Storywork process using photography instead of paint.
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Want to experience beauty as a transformational tool. A way to engage your story and heal with hands on beauty? Shelley will accompany you to a place of beauty like a park, museum, gallery, or nature hike. She will guide you as you work with your story through creative expression and photography. It is like a mini sacred daylong pilgrimage that becomes a living art.
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Looking for a way to bring trauma informed mind-body wellness to your business or organization? Need to motivate your team and cast vision for your company? Have Shelley host a fun and empowering Artful Storywork Experience for your organization.
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Sacred spaces to step away, reset, and return renewed. Host your own at your location or come to one of our retreats
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Bring your story to life through a custom painting or Artful Storywork™ photography session done by me. Creating a meaningful work of art that reflects your story
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Hire Shelley to do a live Artful Storywork Painting at your event. She will create an abstract expressive painting of your story.
Great to mark special occasions or transformational moments in time.
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Keynotes, workshops, and gatherings where Shelley shares wisdom on topics like trauma, wholeness, creativity, or Spirit-led restoration while doing a live Artful Storywork experience. Inspiring women, leaders, communities, and organizations.
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Get personalized guidance. Make lifestyle choices that relieve you of chronic stress symptoms and create holistic wellness. Exploring your physical, emotional, nutritional, environmental, and spiritual wellbeing.
Why choose WHOLE SOUL STUDIO
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Shelley has been a Nurse and witnessed humanities hardest moments. This has given her a compassion that is hard to come by. Shelley has been an Artist and Creative her entire life, and speaks the language of the body, emotions, and intuition fluently.
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Shelley considers all the parts of you and your story through a trauma informed lens. She understands the Science and the Spiritual side of life. Seeing them as interconnected. She considers your cellular health as well as your soul health. This is very hard to find.
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Shelley’s work is guided by her personal experiences, not just her credentials. She has experienced many traumatic events, lost her health and wholeness, and regained it holistically. She operates as a guide to wholeness, and believes your story is the medicine.
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Shelley’s work is not clinical, it is an Art. Art, Story, and Spirit are the medicine she carries.
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Wounds are not seen as a problem to be fixed but as the very place where transformation breaks open. While your past is important to giving us clues to your wholeness path, it is not the focus of our work, we are focused on forward growth and helping you create a live you love.
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People who draw or paint their dreams and goals are forty two percent more likely to achieve them.
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All of Shelley’s work is guided by the Holy Spirit. While she does not force her beliefs on others, her faith is the inspiration for everything she does.
Common Questions:
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Yes, much of our work is done virtually, but we do have some in person offerings as well
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No, the only offering that uses painting is Artful Storywork Painting, but we think you would love it if you tried it
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No, in fact the less you know about traditional Art the more fun you will probably have.
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No, you do not although you can. Artful Storywork is designed to help you release your story from the body, so if you are not ready to use words, you can just use paint. If you want to use words but keep them to yourself, you can. This is were Artful Storywork shines, the paper or canvas can be a witness and a mirror.
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We service central IL and support people virtually. Travel is possible.
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Do to the nature of our work being deeply personal and often custom, we require a consultation to make sure working together is a good.
Unless there is a direct link to reserve your spot on the website.
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While Shelley holds credentials as an RN, BSN, Certified Whole Health Educator/Coach, Patient Advocate, Enneagram Relationship Coach, Kingdom Minister, and Therapeutic Artist. Shelley’s work is purely educational, spiritual, and transformational. Her methods were mainly birthed from her own personal experience of restoring her wholeness and from working with over 1,000 clients to achieve health.
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Yes we do
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No, even though Shelley holds credentials, her work is creative not clinical. Therefore, insurance will not cover this service.
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No, you do not.
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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.