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

A free 4-day virtual event for sensitive, thoughtful, creative seekers.

March 26 - 29

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.

During this free 4-day virtual Healing Through Writing Festival you’ll learn how to:

  • 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!

Day 1: 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

  • Dream Tending & Imagination

    Dr. Stephen Aizenstat, Author of The Imagination Matrix

  • 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

Day 2: 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

Day 3: 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

Day 4: 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.

Join us for the Healing Through Writing Festival 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.

During the Healing Through Writing Festival we offer a comprehensive exploration of the multiple different layers of healing and writing.

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.

Grab your free ticket and join us to learn supportive writing processes and simple memoir-writing techniques while moving forward on your healing journey.

What to expect

When and Where

The Healing Through Writing Festival will run from October 10th - 13th, with a variety of presentations to choose from each day. This event is entirely virtual, so you’ll be able to attend from anywhere in the world with internet access.

Sessions with Skilled Healers and Writers

Attend workshops and presentations from our lineup of 20+ presenters, workshop leaders and speakers, with wide-ranging sessions such as writing your stories of grief, of birth, of rites of passage and writing from the body. Your free ticket includes access to each presentation during the four days of the summit.

Private Festival Community

You’ll also have access to our private online community of creative, big-hearted, growth-oriented seekers just like you. Tap into the collective synergy of kindred spirits on a healing path! This is where you’ll be able to connect with the speakers and other attendees before and during the event.

Chances to Win

You’ll also have a chance to win prizes by showing up and participating throughout the summit. Be sure to keep an eye out for your BINGO card and come hang out with us in the online community for chances to win prizes, to be announced

Apply for a Scholarship Spot

For my transformational memoir-writing course, The Art of Personal Mythmaking, which uses body-based, trauma-informed writing prompts, stories like fairy tale and myth, and themed modules to support people who want to heal from the difficult parts of their life stories as they write their memoirs.

Upgrade for a Supportive Experience

After registering, you’ll also have the chance to upgrade to the All Access Pass which includes ongoing access to the presentations after the summit wraps up, premium bonuses from our speakers, and more! You’ll get all the details (and a special offer) after grabbing your free ticket! 

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.

Have questions? Here are some answers.

  • You’ll learn (and try) a wide range of supportive writing processes and simple memoir-writing techniques from 25+ skilled healers and writers.

    We’ll cover a wide range of experiences that support (and hinder) your healing, and how to create transformation and flow in your healing (and writing) journey by working with the challenges instead of against them.

  • If you’re curious about healing, if you enjoy writing, this event is for you!

    We’ll be specifically talking to people with a desire to do their healing through writing, and exploring their life experiences, but anyone else who wants to get started with healing through writing is welcome to join us.

  • The Healing Through Writing Festival runs from March 26th - 29th. Live calls are at 7am, 8am, 10:30am, and sometimes 1pm and 3pm, all Pacific Time.

    Click here to see the full Festival schedule.

    You’ll also be able to join our private online community after you register.

  • The festival presentations are a mix of pre-recorded and live elements. All recordings and replays are availablee for the four days of the festival, with your free ticket.

    I encourage you to attend live if you can! Set aside time during the festival week to attend the live sessions, watch the pre-recorded presentations, and participate with others who are healing through writing.

    However, if you’re not able to attend all of the sessions live, go ahead and grab your free ticket because you’ll have the opportunity to upgrade to the All Access Pass for extended access to all of the presentations.

  • Your free ticket includes access to each of the presentations for the duration of the festival.

    If you need more time, you can always upgrade your ticket to the All-Access Pass after registering, which will give you extended access to the presentations along with exclusive live sessions during the festival week and premium bonuses from our speakers.

  • Some are live and some are pre-recorded.

    Live calls are at 7am, 8am, 10:30am, and sometimes 1pm and 3pm, all Pacific Time.
    Click here to see the full Festival schedule.

    To avoid tech glitches, give you the best possible experience, and keep things easy for the speakers, some of the presentations are pre-recorded and will be released at a scheduled time during the summit.

  • No.

    When you register, you’ll be added to the Healing Through Writing email list so I can send you updates for the event and links to each day’s presentations.

    After the festival is over, you’ll continue to hear from me, Janelle Hardy, but you can unsubscribe at any time.

    Each of the speakers will have free resources available that you can access by providing an email address, but the speakers will not get your email address unless you choose to give it to them specifically.

    That way, you only hear from the people you really love and don’t have to worry about getting added to 25+ email lists that you’re not interested in. 😬

  • Yes.

    All presentations have closed captioning.

    Please reach out if there’s anything we can do to ensure you’re able to enjoy this event: jaha @ janellehardy.com

  • If you still have questions, I encourage you to go ahead and sign up.

    Your questions will will likely be answered during the event or in the online community, which you’ll be able to join right after getting your free ticket.

    However, if you need to ask a question before registering, feel free to send an e-mail to me at jaha @ janellehardy.com or via DM on instagram @janellemackinnonhardy

Join the Healing Through Writing Festival today and move forward on your healing journey!