About Diana
I am Diana von Welanetz Wentworth. New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books. Co-founder of The Inside Edge, a community of seekers and creators that gathered for nearly forty years and hosted over 1,700 speakers, among them Louise Hay, Ram Dass, Jack Canfield, and Mark Victor Hansen. Co-founder of the Love Letters Global Movement. International speaker, certified life coach, celebrity chef, and, most simply, a woman who carries little glass red hearts in her pocket to give away when someone touches my soul.
I have cooked for presidents and grieved beside strangers who became family. I have memorized more than twenty poems as a spiritual practice. I have loved two extraordinary men, Paul and Ted, and buried them both, and walked back into the light each time.
I live in Thousand Oaks, California, with my daughter Lexi. I work out three mornings a week, walk my ragdoll cat Luna in a pink stroller, write my monthly newsletter 'Tea With Diana,' lead the Mastery Circle gatherings, and work on books that I hope will still be opening hearts long after I am gone.
I am 85 years old. I am not winding down. I am composing the most luminous chapter of all.
She was widowed for the second time three years ago. Here is a tribute to her late husband Ted Wentworth (www.TedWentworth.com).
This is one of the poems I carry in my heart.
It has guided me through loss and back into life, more than once.
“Love After Love”
“The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.”
— Derek Walcott
A New Series Has Begun
I have just launched 'Your Life as a Work of Art,' a Substack series exploring how we compose our days, curate meaning, and leave something lasting behind.
Each issue is an essay, a meditation, an open door. I would love for you to be part of it.