Raina Shepard

Raina Shepard is a trauma-informed writer, counselor, and storyteller whose work blends emotional honesty, lived experience, and deep spiritual insight. For more than two decades she has walked beside individuals and families facing some of life’s hardest roads—addiction, grief, trauma, identity loss, and the quiet internal battles most people never see. Her writing is known for raw truth, tender compassion, and the belief that healing is not only possible but sacred.

She has authored 40+ books spanning adult healing guides, spiritual memoirs, teen survival books, and children’s emotional literacy stories (including many in the Ellie the Elephant series).

Drawing from both personal lived experience—surviving a childhood marked by abuse, medical trauma, and generational pain—and her professional work counseling high-risk youth and families in crisis, Raina’s voice is rooted in resilience, grace, and a belief that every person can find a way forward.

She also writes explorative fiction that weaves spiritual and mystical themes with emotional depth, such as The Chosen Child: The Birth of a Mystic.