Guide to Recalling and Retelling Your Life Story
What more precious gift could one give than the gift of memories? Create an heirloom to be treasured by recording a written legacy in A Guide to Recalling and Telling Your Life Story.
Looking back and sharing special memories can be both rewarding and entertaining. This Guide is a beautiful workbook designed to help a person tell his or her life story. Page by page, it suggests topics--such as Family, Adult Life, Growing Older, and Reflections--and questions to consider. The questions can be helpful to the person sharing the memories, as well as provide other family members with a way to elicit stories and experiences. The suggested questions may also spark memories that go beyond the topics outlined in the book, which will only add to the richness of the completed story. The Guide also includes a section in which to record values that the person wishes to pass on to succeeding generations.
Testimonials
I was extremely excited to discover your Guide for Recalling and Telling Your Life Story. This is the first guide I come across that is designed for the chronically ill and the terminally ill people. This is, I feel, the best guide I have seen so far! The Guide is very thorough and very well researched. The presentation is appealing. . . .The video is also a wonderful tool that promotes creativity and gives clear instruction as to how to use other media than the written product. I intend to use the video as a tool for our patients in order to get acquainted with the process. This will enable them to make an informed decision about taking part in the project.
-- Nicole Moïse, BSW, Sisters of Charity of Ottawa
What a wonderful contribution you and the Hospice Foundation of America have made with the Guide. I think you will find that it will be very popular and it will be very helpful to dying persons, young and old, and to their families.
-- Robert N. Butler, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Overall A Guide to Recalling and Telling Your Life Story has some real merit and is worth using. Its innovative approach encourages the client to engage the life review process in an optimal way, i.e., it maximizes client coproduction, and involves family members where possible.
-- Kevin Brabazon, New York State Intergenerational Network
Just Some of the Questions from the Guide:
Family/Parents
– What are some childhood memories of your parents?
Growing Up/Neighbors
– Was there a favorite neighborhood place you liked to go?
Growing Up/Money and Work
– What are your memories of your first job? How old were you?
Marriage
– Describe your spouse when you first met.
– Describe your first home when you got married. What did you like the most about it?
Science and Technology
– What effect did new gadgets and inventions have in your work? In your daily life?
Growing Older/Learning
– Is there anything you wish you still had time to learn?
Reflections
– How I feel about my life…
– The most important people in my life have been…
– The things I care most about…
– I would like to be remembered as…
– I would like people to remember these things about me…