Write your memoirs, reclaim yourself.
introducing the
Art of Personal Mythmaking
A 13-module online course in which you’ll write the first draft of your memoir while reclaiming your sense of joy and vitality.
Education via module themes containing innovative embodiment visualizations, writing prompts, fairytales & mythology as well as plenty of tools and techniques that offer clarity, focus and structure.
Imagine how it would feel to know you’re a good writer with worthy stories.
Imagine how it would feel to get the first draft of your memoir written with ease. Without overwhelm.
Imagine how it would feel to have clarity, focus, tools and techniques for when you get stuck in perfectionism, resistance and creative block.
Imagine how it would feel to have a solid writing structure so you can stop trying to figure-it-all-out and just get started.
Imagine working with unique, creative, healing themes (drawn from mythology, anatomy, fairytales and anthropology) to spark wild insight, rich stories and deep self-appreciation.
Imagine having your body as your most trusted creative resource and advisor.
Imagine having support and guidance from a writing teacher with body-based trauma-informed training, who can help you face the painful, distressing and overwhelming parts of your life - the parts that have been stopping you from getting started.
If you’re reading this and saying “yes, I want that!” I want you to know that all of this is so very possible.
Hi there.
I’m Janelle Hardy.
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I’ve been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker in the hands-on healing arts fields for 14+ years and as an artist (writing, painting + dance) for 17+ years. Throughout that time I’ve also taught adults out of my living room, arts centres, universities and community colleges.
For the past 5+ years I’ve integrated all of my expertise into supporting people in their creative healing work via the alchemy of transformational memoir-writing.
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Through the Art of Personal Mythmaking I help passionate, curious, sensitive folks reconnect with their bodies (because our bodies are the only true home we have in this world, and contain universes of wisdom), tune in to their creative process (because it’s got a rhythm and timing that work great when we, well, pay attention instead of forcing our creations) and tap into their cultural inheritance via the wisdom contained in ancient tales (like fairytales, mythology, folktales and more.) All while getting the first draft of their memoirs written.
What I believe is this: transformation is possible, your lifestories are worthy of attention, and you deserve to feel good in your body, mind and spirit.
It just takes the right combination of skilled guidance (from me) committed devotion (from you) and right timing (which is a delicious mix of slowing down, getting gentle, trusting the process and then seeing your writing and your transformation take flight.)
Most people are raised to ‘push through’ and ‘man-up’ and ‘hustle hard’ and ‘be relentless.’ The truth is, these are recipes for overwhelm, burnout and despair. So let’s not approach our healing, our creativity or our life in these ways.
Let’s instead hold this paradox: that by slowing down, easing up and refusing to force anything, we actually create and grow with more ease and more speed.
We'll write, we’ll get curious, we’ll sift through memories, we’ll learn to tap into our bodies as the storehouses of memory, wisdom and connection that they are, and best of all, we’ll transform by knitting it all together into a meaning-making product: the first draft of your memoir.
Are you ready to become a Personal Mythmaker?