Wendy Leask

Wendy Leask is a Canadian author whose work explores identity, emotional patterning, and the quiet ways people lose—and reclaim—themselves in love, relationships, and personal reckoning.

She is the author of Just Jaylyn: Uncover Your Story, Discover Your Truth, a memoir examining how shame, longing, and unreciprocated love shape the stories we live by—and how awareness can interrupt those patterns. Her writing favors emotional precision over prescription.

Her forthcoming book, The Shape I Took For You, continues this inquiry, tracing the interior consequences of self-erasure, desire, and the cost of becoming smaller for love.

Following the publication of her first book, Wendy created and facilitated Empowered Abandonment, a reflective group space for women navigating relationship rupture and identity loss—work that continues to inform her writing.

She has been a featured writer with Elephant Journal, a contributor to Thought Catalog, and a panel guest on Rogers TV. She is also one of the founding members of 22 Push-Ups Canada, supporting veterans, first responders, and mental-health awareness.