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Personal Mythmaking with Janelle Hardy

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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Your story is your medicine

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...

5 months ago • 11 min read
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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...

7 days ago • 7 min read
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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. "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...

20 days ago • 5 min read
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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...

4 months ago • 17 min read
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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. He spun me so vigorously I fell down! It was lesson two of my intro to west coast swing dance class. I'd signed up (plus a beginner salsa class) because after decades of thinking partner dancing looked fun but not taking...

6 months ago • 3 min read
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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. The wisdom of listening to our body and telling our stories I have two stories for you today. Here's the first. A story holding many other stories. It goes like this: once upon a time there was a young woman who learned...

6 months ago • 3 min read
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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. That time I didn't write or paint for ages even though that's all I thought about I was in my 20s. I was writing professionally (500-word articles for a coming events magazine, report writing for arts and culture...

6 months ago • 5 min read
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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. Tracking your stories in your body, then shifting, releasing, healing and retelling them One client came to me dissatisfied with her posture. She felt confident, at ease and attractive. But when she saw pictures of...

7 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. "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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