Move forward on your healing journey with supportive writing processes and simple memoir-writing techniques from 20+ skilled healers and writers.

Learn how to write and heal in a way that feels supportive and creative

Explore creative writing and life story writing processes that support your healing journey.

  • Use writing and the creative arts as a tool for healing

  • Tap into the wisdom of your body through writing (and discover how that's connected to your healing)

  • Write about your life experiences and have your perspective (and triggers) change as a result

  • Source your healing from your inner life, your bodypsyche

Meet your Healing and Writing Guides

Just look at this stellar lineup of kind and skilled healers you’ll learn from at the Healing Through Writing Festival!

The Foundations of Healing

We’ll kick things off with sessions that explore what healing is, how to shift resistance and creative block using your body (and how that’s connected to healing), and how gentle structure, can be your very good friend when you want to write joyful stories and also heal from your difficult stories.

  • Releasing Stuck Emotions Through Journaling (LIVE)

    Ruthie Lindsey, Speaker, Coach, Author of the Memoir There I Am, The Journey From Hopelessness To Healing

  • Somatic Journaling: Resolve Trauma and Come Home to Your Body by Giving Your Body a Voice (LIVE)

    Jennifer Arnspiger (she/her), Certified Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Coach and Somatic Writing Coach

  • The Art of Reclamation Through Writing: Embracing All of Me

    Lydiana Garcia, Psychologist and Healer

  • Writing Sex and Sensuality in The Courage Room (LIVE)

    Karen Connelly, Writer and Psychotherapist

  • Breath & Bone: Gentle Practices for Excavating Your Story

    Nicole Gulotta, Author

  • Writing and Healing through the Lunar Eclipse

    Molly Pennington (she/her), PhD, Astrologer, Writer

Taking the Lid Off: Dealing With Grief and Rage

The healing journey can feel messy, ugly and hard. We’ll explore how to make these tricky experiences our allies as we untangle ourselves with workshops and talks by dynamic, kind healers and writers.

  • Write Your Story With the Villain in Mind (LIVE)

    Ally Fallon (she/her), Writing Coach & Author of Write Your Story

  • Fear is an Opportunity

    Kate Speer (she/her), Writer, TEDx Speaker, Mental Illness Advocate

  • Stepping into the Harder Terrain (LIVE)

    Madelyn Kent, Founder, Sense Writing™

  • Writing About and Healing from Religious Trauma and Purity Culture

    Cait West (she/her), Author of Rift: A Memoir of Breaking Away from Christian Patriarchy

  • Centered In Your Power: The 5 Rs for Narrative-Therapy Informed Creative Nonfiction Workshop (LIVE)

    Nicole Breit (she/her), Professional Writing Coach

  • Letters to the Beyond: a letter writing workshop to our departed and to our grief

    Rayya Liebich (she/her), Writer and Educator

  • Using Character Development to Heal Self-doubt

    Georgina Green (she/her), Book Coach

Finding Joy, Delight and Pleasure in Healing

Healing isn’t all serious challenges. Tapping into, and writing about beauty, marvel and awe is anything but frivolous, and helps us expand our capacity to work with the tougher stuff. The uplifting and joyful then become our healing resources.

  • Sensuality Fuels Creativity: How to Write your Soul Book Workshop (LIVE)

    Shawnrey Notto (she/her), Author, Artist & Sensual IQ Guide

  • Let It Go: Free Yourself From Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy

    Chelene Knight (she/her), Writer, Editor, Creative Balance Coach

  • Writing with Pleasure

    Dr. Helen Sword, Founder, The WriteSPACE

  • Through the Erotic Body: generating creativity and healing our insecure parts with the vulnerability of our fierce and tender parts

    Adriana Marie Rizzolo, Embodied Love Coach, Spirit Guide, Writer, Adult Sex Educator

  • Embodied Depth Work for the Midlife Journey (LIVE)

    Stella Stathi (she/her), Jungian/Somatic Practitioner & Inner Alchemy Guide

Integrating Our Healing and Telling Our Stories

Healing and integration is about holding the paradox of both/and. On our last day together we explore how how and why writing and telling our stories is so very important.

  • How to Fuck It Up (really well): a workshop on letting go of getting it “right” & embracing your creative troublemaker (LIVE)

    Madison Nees 星 RITUAL BODY, Radical Aliveness Practitioner & Counselor

  • Writing: Belonging and Healing

    Sumayya Usmani (she/her), Author, Mentor and Writer

  • The Waves of Grief Through Time

    Gloria Eid, Writer, Transformational Life & Leadership Coach

  • The Way of Mythic Purpose: Internal Resourcing for Collective Liberation (LIVE)

    Eve Bradford (she/her), Artist, Educator & Oracular Practitioner

  • Summoned by the Earth: Becoming a Holy Vessel for Healing the Earth

    Cynthia Jurs, Author, Summoned by the Earth

As you can see from these thoughtful and wide-ranging presentations and workshops, this is a uniquely curated event.

Get this Healing Through Writing Festival bundle to learn from 20+ skilled (and kind!) healers and writers about supportive writing processes and simple memoir-writing techniques.

You know by now that healing is multifaceted

It takes a whole lot more than just saying you want to heal from the difficult parts of your life stories.

And there are so many ways to approach healing. It can be overwhelming knowing where to start, and how to continue.

In fact, you’ve probably gone down the rabbit hole of...

  • Signing up for courses and workshops on trauma healing, writing and journalling

  • Working with therapists and alternative healing practitioners

  • Talking to friends about their healing journey and asking them what's worked

  • Googling for support and resources on what a healing crisis is, quarter life and mid life crises, various worrying symptoms...

  • Listening to podcasts and following healers on instagram, reading those 5-slide carousels on nervous system 101, mindset, and more...

Yet, you still find yourself seeking

You have moments of expansion and relief, but then ‘oh no’ moments of contraction.

You sometimes wonder if you’re doing your healing ‘right.’

Maybe you’re despairing at the thought of making the kinds of positive changes you long for.

Or maybe you’re sick of being disappointed and just can’t wade your way through one more public figure or therapy promising the next ‘magic’ process.

Meet your host

Hi! I’m Janelle Hardy.

I’m a writer, somatic (body) healer and transformational memoir-writing teacher.

I’ve been on a healing path since I was 20, seeking to find relief from extreme shyness, loneliness, chronic fatigue, intense tooth grinding and tummy troubles.

And it’s worked. I’ve found relief and healing.

I’m the host of the Memoir Body, Healing Story Podcast and the creator/teacher of a transformational memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. 

All of which is to say - you’re in good hands with me :-)

I care deeply about the people I serve.

I trust this work, I trust my training and experience, and I trust the incredible lineup of skilled (and kind) healers and writers you’ll hear from during the Healing Through Writing Festival.

Most of all, I trust you and your longing for healing, growth, and kind, skilled support on your journey.

Healing Through Writing was created with your healing in mind.

It’s a workshop and presentation series that trusts you.

  • That trusts your discernment, your hunger for growth, the wisdom of your body, your creativity and your stories.

It’s a festival, not just about healing the difficult, but about inviting in joy, expansion and depth.

Healing Through Writing was specifically created for sensitive, thoughtful, creative seekers like you. People who:

  • love writing and other creative practices

  • are struggling to understand their discontent, their discomfort, their weird symptoms

  • are hungry to grow beyond what their cultures, societies and families have told them they are

  • feel the deep and potent promise of a transformative process

  • have stories that have been held inside too tightly for far too long

This festival is about giving you embodied, experiential practices and ways to write your personal stories that are healing.

Dive into this enriching, experiential, Healing Through Writing Festival to learn, explore and feel the possibilities that await you.