Shift Resistance and Writer’s Block

Using Your Body as Your Guide

 

A free, live workshop for people who want to write their life stories without trying so hard to get unstuck

Feb 23rd, 12pm Pacific

 

What if writer’s block isn’t a flaw in your discipline… but a message from your nervous system?

If you’ve tried forcing yourself to write, powering through resistance, or waiting for motivation to magically return — this workshop offers a different way in.

A body-based one.

A way of understanding why you get stuck — and how get writing again, without forcing anything, or powering through at the expense of your creativity or yourself.

 

Your body can help you stay in the flow of your writing.

You just need to know how to listen.

 

This free live workshop will help you change the relationship you have with your body, your stories and the part of you that freezes or pulls away when it’s time to write.

 

Here’s what we’ll cover in this live, interactive workshop

Monday February 23rd
12pm Pacific Time

You’ll learn how to work with your writer’s block and resistance instead of fighting it by:

  • Recognizing the physical signals of resistance before frustration or shutdown takes over

  • Understanding writer’s block through a nervous system lens (not a productivity one)

  • Using simple, body-based practices to restore creative flow — even when you’re busy or overwhelmed

  • Applying an “in-the-moment” technique that can shift stuckness in under 3 minutes

Save your seat and join us for this workshop where you’ll make your body your most trusted creative ally!

 
 
 

This is for you if you want to write your story…

 

But something in you tightens, resists, or goes blank when you try.

This is also for you if:

  • You’re sensitive, thoughtful, creative — and you’re tired of being told to “just push through”

  • You sense your stories live in your body, but don’t know how to access them safely

  • You want a nervous system approach to creativity and writing

You don’t need to identify as a “writer.”

You just need a body — and a willingness to be curious about what it’s been holding.

When you sign up, you’ll receive:

  • Access to the live workshop

  • A replay (available for a few days afterwards)

  • Additional resources to support your writing and healing

At the end of our time together, I’ll also share an invitation to continue this work inside my memoir-writing and healing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking.

 

What others are saying about this workshop

 
 

What makes me qualified to teach this workshop?

 

Hi, I’m Janelle Hardy!

I’ve been working as a certified somatic healing practitioner, specializing in the nervous system, trauma healing and fascial connective tissue for 17+ years.

I’m also the creator of The Art of Personal Mythmaking, a transformational memoir-writing course that braids together body-based healing, myth, and lived story.

What I’m especially devoted to is this:

Helping creative, sensitive people stop fighting themselves and start listening to what their bodies are already communicating.

I don’t believe you’re blocked. I believe your system has been doing its best to protect you.

And when we learn how to work with that — writing becomes possible again.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • No. You’re welcome to write, reflect, and participate quietly in whatever way feels right for you.

  • First, I’ll teach you how our nervous system responses are connected to our writer’s block.

    We’ll gently work with the body throughout the workshop, by bringing awareness of sensation, breath, and nervous system responses — nothing related to catharsis, or pushing anything open.

    This is about listening, not forcing.

  • Not at all.

    This workshop is for anyone who wants to understand why they get stuck creatively and learn a more supportive way to work with writer’s block, which is helpful and healing.

  • A quiet-ish space, something to write with, and curiosity.

    You don’t need prior experience with somatics or body-based practices.

  • Yes.

    A recording will be available for a limited time after the live workshop.

  • Thanks for asking.

    I’ve got an exceptional amount of skill, training and experience in interviewing, writing, working with people one-on-one in a healing environment, and drawing out stories.

    I’ve been working as a trauma-informed Structural Integrator (Rolfing) doing one-on-one hands-on healing bodywork for 17+ years, am a couple months away from full certification as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, which is all about trauma healing through nervous system work, and I’ve teaching individuals and groups for 20+ years.

    I’m also a published writer with a BA in Anthropology, an MA in Dance and a Diploma in Hellerwork Structural Integration. I’ve worked as a research assistant at Yukon Archives, as a teacher and teaching assistant at various colleges and universities, and taught creative writing and healing workshops online and in person.

    I’m a great listener and I’m always attuned for patterns, deeper meanings and great stories.

    I have an appreciation for context, history, and take the role of helping people birth their creations into the world very seriously (without forgetting that fun is important!)

  • We’ll spend the workshop learning and practicing together.

    At the end, I’ll share an invitation to continue this work inside my memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking — but only if it feels like a yes in your body. No pressure, no pushiness.

Save your seat and join us for this workshop where you’ll make your body your most trusted creative ally!

Finally, I want you to know that my work comes from my own efforts to untangle what was passed down in my family.

From my two grandfathers, war veterans who lived with trauma that had no name, no support, and no place to land.

Their stories lived in their bodies, and when experiences aren’t given room to be felt and tended, they don’t disappear — they move destructively through families, through relationships, through time.

I teach this work for creatives who are ready to meet the stories they carry — inherited and lived — with more gentleness than previous generations were ever offered.