Save Your Life, One Story At A Time

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“Save Your Life One Story at a Time” Is a workbook format that guides you through writing your life story or can be used as a guide to record your oral history. This book can also be used in a group setting or by yourself. In a memoir class, you can hear other stories, which helps you remember more for your stories. Deep friendships develop while sharing and writing your stories.
Using a timeline and memory list is demonstrated as you go through the process of decluttering and sorting through memorabilia such as old photos, Christmas letters, school papers, journals, calendars etc. How to photo-journal about those orphan photos you have in a box with no names or stories behind them. The book is full of memory triggers that will help you unlock your memory and help you start remembering more. Your memory list will help you track the stories you want to write. It has spontaneous writing topics so there is no excuse to have memory block.
Topics include Interviewing living ancestors, recovering your past through the turning points in you life. It scans your entire life from the homes you lived in, family stories about parents, grandparents, cousins, siblings. It continues with your birth thru teen years, early adulthood, love and relationships, military service, pivotal/special people in your life, senior years and retirement.
If all your memories were not good, it can be therapeutic to you as it guides you through writing about painful memories and your spiritual journey. It concludes with writing your own obituary, ethical will and tips on editing and encouragement to continue journaling your life. The joy of this workbook is you get to live your life twice as you relive and share your memories. Then you have a legacy of your stories for your children and grandchildren.