Memoir Body, Healing Story with Janelle Hardy

It's episode #119 and I'm chatting with Gauri Raje, a storyteller, educator and workshop facilitator working with adolescents and adults from multilingual, multicultural and disadvantaged backgrounds. I first encountered Gauri when I signed up for the Anima Mundi School's Fairytale Kitchen series. Gauri is one of the two storytellers in that series, and one of 3 story interpreters, in that, after...

In this brief episode, I offer you a body-based writing prompt that sources from your fingertips. Take in the exploration, then set and timer and flow write for somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes. See what arises. Enjoy! For more offerings like this, go to my website,  janellehardy.com .

In this episode, I tell a Scottish tale. The Blacksmith's Wife of Yarrowfoot. Sit back and enjoy having a story told to you. Let your body and your soul soak up the essence of the story magic and medicine. After the story I share some memoir-writing and transformational healing prompts if you'd like to work with the story magic, apply it to your own life stories, and see where it takes you. To sta...

It's episode #116 and I'm chatting with Juno Kim, an IMTA-certified mindfulness teacher and emotional well-being coach who has a deep passion for well-being, psychology, sociology and philosophy.  I'm totally thrilled to say that Juno is a podcast guest I met in real life. This may not seem like something to get excited about, but for me, with so much of my work being online - both my teaching and...

In this brief episode, I offer you a body-based writing prompt that sources from your guts. Take in the exploration, then set and timer and flow write for somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes. See what arises. Enjoy! For more offerings like this, go to my website,  janellehardy.com .

In this episode, I tell a tale. The Frog King. Sit back and enjoy having a story told to you. Let your body and your soul soak up the essence of the story magic and medicine. After the story I share some memoir-writing and transformational healing prompts if you'd like to work with the story magic, apply it to your own life stories, and see where it takes you.

It's episode #113 and I'm chatting with Verónica Márquez , a researcher, somatic facilitator and the Founder of Between Us - a global community that explores and teaches how to turn sensitive topics and conversations into opportunities for growth and deeper connection.   I first met Vero in a women's leadership circle, and was really struck by her steady, gentle but determined nature. "What a marv...

In this brief episode, I offer you a body-based writing prompt that sources from your scars. Take in the exploration, then set and timer and flow write for somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes. See what arises. Enjoy! For more offerings like this, go to my website,  janellehardy.com .

In this episode, I tell a tale. A Baba Yaga tale. Sit back and enjoy having a story told to you. But if you haven't listened to part 1 - go to episode 108 and listen to that one first! Let your body and your soul soak up the essence of the story magic and medicine. After the story I share some memoir-writing and transformational healing prompts if you'd like to work with the story magic, apply it...

It's episode #110 and I'm chatting with memoirist Rebekah Taussig, a Kansas City writer and educator with her doctorate in Creative Nonfiction and Disability Studies.   I found Rebekah in my usual way, by clicking interesting links. One click led to another, and I landed on her marvelous Instagram account, Sitting Pretty. She'd just published her memoir of the same name, and had made a post about...

In this brief episode, I offer you a body-based writing prompt that sources from the heart. Take in the exploration, then set and timer and flow write for somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes. See what arises. Enjoy! For more offerings like this, go to my website, janellehardy.com .

In this episode, I tell a tale. A Baba Yaga tale. Sit back and enjoy having a story told to you. Let your body and your soul soak up the essence of the story magic and medicine. After the story I share some memoir-writing and transformational healing prompts if you'd like to work with the story magic, apply it to your own life stories, and see where it takes you.

It's episode #107 and I'm chatting with coach Kendra Cunov, who has been studying, facilitating, and (most importantly) practicing Authentic Relating, Embodiment Practices & Deep Intimacy Work for over fifteen years, and has pioneered some of the most cutting edge relational work on the planet. I met Kendra in a leadership program, and was really struck by her ability to notice and ask about under...

In this brief episode, I offer you a body-based writing prompt that sources from the feet. Take in the exploration, then set and timer and flow write for somewhere between 5 and 20 minutes. See what arises. Enjoy! For more offerings like this, go to my website, janellehardy.com .

In this episode, I tell a tale. A Selkie (seal woman) tale. Sit back and enjoy having a story told to you. Let your body and your soul soak up the essence of the story magic and medicine. After the story I share some memoir-writing and transformational healing prompts if you'd like to work with the story magic, apply it to your own life stories, and see where it takes you. To start your own person...

I'm chatting with Elisha Halpin a sacred life mentor and embodiment coach for visionaries, creatives, healers, and coaches. Elisha Halpin is of Scotch-Irish, African, and Cherokee descent. She was raised in Tennessee near the lands of her Cherokee and Appalachian ancestors. As a bridge Elisha was born as one who crosses the thresholds and integrates the Wisdom. Elisha is interested in swimming in...

Listen in to Janelle Hardy, creator of transformational memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking as she describes what this podcast is all about. She'll be talking to published memoirists, people in the middle of writing their memoirs, storytellers and embodied healers.  She'll even toss in the occasional fairy tale and body-based writing prompt, to give your stories some unexpected s...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Sebene Selassie because I loved our conversation, and so did my listeners back then – our conversation is one of the most listened episodes on this podcast to date. And, because what we talk about is so very timeless, and yet the ancient take Sebene chose is also so timely, I'm really excited to reintroduce you to Sebene Selassie, a Brooklyn-b...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Roxanne Coble , a mixed media artist, illustrator, and maker of things in Los Angeles. She's known for her detailed art journaling which fuses mixed media and painted illustration. Inspired by all things macabre, completed pages embrace a balance of humor and dark emotional themes – all while exploring topical events that occur within her pers...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Alisha Sommer , a Bay Area Freelance Writer & Photographer. I first encountered Alisha online and so appreciated her aesthetic, specific and gentle presence that I got on her newsletter list and started following her on Instagram. Since then, I've featured her in an interview series of creative s based on the Proust questionnaire – link in sho...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Louise Hardy, a counsellor and art therapist. Also my mom! I wanted to have her on the podcast to discuss creativity and the power of resourcing ourselves in difficult times with the creative, in ways that are totally free as well as ways that may cost some money (for art materials and/or art therapy services.) Louise used the creative and a c...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Gitanjali Hemp, a master energy healer from Santa Cruz County, California. Gitanjali works with clients and students to help them cultivate awareness of their subtle body and most sacred selves, increasing their capacity for meaningful contribution and fulfilling expression in their lives and work through a system she founded called Syntara Sy...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Sylvia V. Linsteadt,  a writer whose work—both fiction and non-fiction—is rooted in myth, ecology, feminism & bioregionalism, and is devoted to broadening our human stories to include the voices of the living land. She lives in the bishop pine forest on a peninsula called Point Reyes, which has at various times been an island in the Pacific, b...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Salma Darling, a conscious dance facilitator, dance movement psychotherapist, dharma and mindfulness teacher who lives flexibly between the UK and Marin County California. Salma's been facilitating conscious dance and meditation in a variety of contexts since 1998, using methods that are theoretically and practically informed by Insight (vipas...

In this encore episode I'm sharing a conversation with Grace Quantock, a counsellor, a registered member of the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy , writer, coach, wellness provocateur, and healing trailblazer.  Grace is currently living – and thriving – with often debilitating illness and knows, firsthand, the emotional and physical rollercoaster that accompanies diagnosis and l...