Meet the Founder

Shelley Henk, RN, BSN

Shelley Henk is the Founder of Whole Soul Studio™ and the creator of the Artful Storywork™ Method and the Four Elements of Wholeness™—a sacred, creative pathway that guides women back to peace through the reunion of body, soul, and spirit.

A nurse by training and a Kingdom minister by calling, Shelley has spent more than two decades walking with people through life’s most tender thresholds—birth, death, grief, illness, healing, and transformation. Her work was not formed in theory, but in lived experience.

At twenty-six, she lost her father to suicide. Years later, despite doing everything “right” in her health and her faith, her own body began to break down under the weight of unprocessed grief and a profoundly dysregulated nervous system. In that unraveling she discovered what the wellness world and the Church often miss:

Information does not create wholeness.
Healing must be walked, embodied, and expressed.

What began as her personal return to life became the pilgrimage she now guides other women through.

Shelley’s work weaves together somatic practice, sacred creativity, narrative healing, and Spirit-led formation. Through painting, prayer, story, and the living rhythm of the Four Elements—Feel, Heal, Dream, Create—she helps women who have tried everything to heal but still feel anxious, disconnected, or exhausted come home to themselves and live from their true, God-given identity.

Inside her signature experience, the Finding Beautiful School of YOU, women are not given another program to fix themselves. They are invited into a deeply personal journey of release, restoration, and creative rebirth—reclaiming the canvas of their lives from the inside out.

Her work is especially aligned with spiritually sensitive, high-capacity women who are ready for a new way of healing—one that honors the body, welcomes emotion, integrates science and faith, and allows the Holy Spirit to lead.

Shelley is a BSN-prepared nurse, Certified Whole Health Practitioner, certified therapeutic artist, and the author of The Four Elements of Wholeness™. She has guided more than a thousand people through physical health transformation and now leads a growing movement devoted to restoring embodied faith and sacred creativity to the healing journey.

She lives in the Midwest, returning often to the moss-filled sandstone canyons of Turkey Run, where her earliest healing began and where the pilgrimage she now guides for others first took shape.

You will most often find her in the studio with paint-stained hands, walking forest paths, or creating sacred spaces where women encounter the beauty of becoming whole.