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Personal Mythmaking with Janelle Hardy

Write your memoirs, reclaim yourself.

A bi-weekly newsletter with stories about the ven-diagram intersection of memoir-writing, embodiment, healing and stories. Creativity, somatics (body), transformation, ancient tales (like fairy tale and myth) and our life stories = joyful magic.

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My daughter just told me my texts are cold!!

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. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. "Mom, your texts are cold." Uh oh. I am not a texty person! Texting and asynchronous communication stress me out. Waiting for a response. Sometimes all day. A back and forth that would verbally be complete in 20 seconds can...

8 months ago • 2 min read

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. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. I'd just spent two days and a night at my family's cabin and sauna, a rugged 45-minute drive out of town, on the banks of the Yukon River. Not by myself but with my mom, my sister, three of her children (ages 8, 4 and 3) and...

9 months ago • 1 min read
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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. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. "What's my name Beau-Beau?" I ask. I cajole. I tease. "No!" My three year old nephew shakes his head, purses his lips and scowls his eyebrows, then looks for his mom. "No." "No!" "No." I bend down and peer closer at the parts...

9 months ago • 1 min read
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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. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. What does deep listening have to do with writing? Words tumble and pile over each other. Words spill out of our mouths, lavishing themselves on others. Smothering. Praising. One-upping. Contradicting. Rebelling. Words form in...

9 months ago • 2 min read
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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. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. I am plugged into an unending source of delight and laughter because my 20-year-old daughter, who is extremely online, saves and shares anything off of tiktok and reddit that she thinks is funny. The latest? Terrible recipe...

9 months ago • 1 min read

Twice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this twice-monthly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. For ten days last summer I camped, with a bunch of artists, at the open-air museum of Fort Selkirk. This historic village stretches out, a string necklace of cabins, for over a kilometre alongside the western bank...

10 months ago • 3 min read
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Twice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this twice-monthly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Blinking my eyes and uncurling my intense gaze from the screen, I looked at the time on my phone. 11:30pm. Four hours had passed in an obsessive blink. It started with an instagram ad floating by. "Join us on the...

10 months ago • 4 min read

Twice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this twice-monthly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. Free workshop: How to Write Award-Worthy Essays (even if you only have 30 minutes a day) with Nicole Breit In the creative arts, there's a fairly straightforward strategy and ladder to climb if you want to be...

11 months ago • 6 min read

Twice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this twice-monthly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. I have a community garden plot on a slope. I have a dusty thumb, not a green thumb. I got the plot last year so I’d have a reason to walk the seven minutes from my front door, past the gelato palace, across the...

11 months ago • 3 min read
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Twice monthly stories for humans seeking depth and meaning. I'm Janelle Hardy and at some point you signed up for this twice-monthly (ish) newsletter on memoir-writing, somatic (body) healing and stories. If you'd like to unsubscribe, just click the unsubscribe link at the bottom. I have a few magazine subscriptions, paper and digital that I don't read much, if at all. The journals arrive and I take them to the bathroom, flipping through the pages as I have my evening bath. Sometimes I've...

11 months ago • 3 min read
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