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.
Didn't follow the recipe, reviewed it anyways 🙈
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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 reviews on Reddit: Ididn'thaveeggs.
Anonymous writes: French toast. With tortilla. And Aquafaba. And cumin.​
This aspiring chef absolutely butchered a french toast recipe by making something else entirely.
Here are some gems from their recipe review:
And the absolute kicker. The part that made us both howl with tears of laughter.
We both started scream laughing, "BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW THE RECIPE!!!! OMG, omg!!"
May we all have the hubris to do something completely wrong, even with instructions, then devote our time to crafting a righteous review this outrageous, delusional and funny.
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In all seriousness, though, with a little more self-awareness, may we all, on our creative, writing and healing journeys, cultivate enough of this kind of confidence to keep doing our thing, and find the humour in the times when we're pigheaded, ridiculous, and unwilling to listen.
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Keep going!
Collect the things that make you howl with laughter.
Enjoy your week!
xoxo,
Janelle
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🌻 🌱 Upcoming workshops 🌻 🌱
🌻 Your story is in the shape: a live workshop with award-winning author Nicole Breit this Tuesday July 25th (it says the 19th, but Nicole was sick so we rescheduled it to tomorrow - you can still sign up)! I've invited Nicole to share this workshop with you because our work is so complementary. I'll see you there?
🌻 Shifting Resistance and Creative Block Using Your Body: a workshop with myself, July 26th. This workshop goes over the foundations of how I see the interconnections between your creativity, creative flow, blockages, your nervous system and your body. It's so helpful, and I teach it live about twice a year.
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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.
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...
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...
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...