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Write your memoirs, reclaim yourself.

I help people write their memoirs while healing in the process so they can feel empowered and free. We do this with creative writing prompts, gentle somatic trauma healing techniques and stories like fairy tale and myth. Memoir writing + body wisdom + healing + stories = joyful magic. A weekly-ish newsletter.

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What fears are holding you back from working with your life stories?

What to expect: until tomorrow you'll receive e-mails with useful tips and stories, encouraging you to join me in my transformational memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking, which I teach live once per year. If you want to stay on my newsletter list but you don't want to receive sales e-mails about the course, just click here to be automatically opted-out of the sales e-mails. What fears are holding you back from working with your life stories? Hi! I’ve been getting plenty of...

Weekly-ish stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this 3-4x/month newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. Over the next week I'll be sharing about my Dirty, Messy, Alive: Embodied Memoir-Writing Workshop Series. Don't want to receive e-mails about it? Click here to opt-out but stay on my newsletter. This will help you start, write and share your memoir ✍️ I know how vast the world of memoir and non-fiction...

3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to leave, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. So I told a smutty story to... a bunch of strangers onstage at the Vancouver Fringe Fest Was it an instagram ad? Probably. Somehow, three days ago I found out about the Smut Slam at the Vancouver Fringe Fest and there was no doubt I...

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3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to leave, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. "He's got that Hardy strength" or, when we need an antidote to our gifts. I've been having an aunty summer. My eldest niece and my eldest nephew are both eight, so I told my sister and my brother to send them to me for a week in the...

A white horse standing next to a brown horse

3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to leave, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. All the My Little Ponies I never wanted I was eight years old. Birthday parties were a Very Big Deal. I campaigned and campaigned and Mom and Dad finally let me invite eleven friends to my party. My greedy little heart immediately...

A woman diving off a cliff into the ocean

3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Hi there! Over the next week and a half I'll be inviting you to join my upcoming Stories From the Body Writing Challenge, which starts June 9th. Don't want to hear about this challenge? Click here to opt out of related e-mails....

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3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Hi there! This is one of two e-mails I'm sending to let you know about my upcoming Write Your Bio, Create Your Media Kit Workshop, which I'm teaching this month. If you're an ambitious writer, creative, maker, healer or...

a road with trees on the side

3x/month stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. "Mommm!!" I shrieked. "How do I get out of this loop?!" We'd just landed in Edindurgh, Scotland, fetched our rental car (a manual transmission Golf VW) and exited the airport to drive downtown to our hotel. Except, instead of...

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Thrice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Heads-up: until January 18th, you'll be receiving a number of e-mails with stories and helpful writing and healing tips, which are also encouraging you to sign up for my live, transformational memoir-writing course, The...

sun light passing through green leafed tree

Thrice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this weekly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Heads-up: until January 18th, you'll be receiving a number of e-mails with stories and helpful writing and healing tips, which are also encouraging you to sign up for my Art of Personal Mythmaking course. If you want to...