The art of storytelling is making a comeback after a century of industrialization has produced a society that feels increasingly isolated and alone.
This feeling of disconnection has resulted in increased rates of anxiety and depression as well as a plethora of physical ailments.
Storytelling fills the void! More and more people are finding life story writing to be therapeutic! Listening to each others stories is an act of love and bonds individuals, families, and organizations like nothing else.
Being part of a "life story writing community" is filling a desperate need for people to share their stories and to receive support in publishing their life story book in a gorgeous, full-color professionally bound book.
Writing your life story doesn't have to be a big, huge project...
it can easily be done in simple, bite-size chunks.
Think of life story writing as upgrading your social media experience.
Using social media is really nothing more than writing bite-size chunks of our life stories! Social media helps people feel connected in the sharing of our stories! Statistics show us that the average person spends 45-minutes daily using social media.
Many people, no more than 10-minutes after their morning alarm goes off, are logging into their social media account! People want to be known and they want to be listened to.
Doesn't it make you feel good when someone writes on your Wall or when they respond to a post you have written? This is the essence of storytelling...
you open up a window of your life (say a post on social media) and someone else responds to what you have shared.
The problem with social media, though, is that you have no say-so over what happens to your content over the years, centuries down the road.
What if we could harness the power of these little "blurbs" and photos and compile them into both a digital and print format - so beautiful and with such high quality that it would become a treasured family heirloom carefully passed down for generations? There's never been a better time than now to pull out your photos, journals, poetry, art, and other memorabilia - and you will discover how simple it is to create professional slide-shows, collages, and so much more! Many people feel overwhelmed with knowing what to do with their photos, newspaper clippings, etc while other people happily spend hours filling scrapbooks and stuffing photos albums...
all of which will fade away or be lost over the years.
Even DVDs have a life expectancy of less than a quarter-century.
It makes sense to learn how to store these valuables long-term, both digitally and in print.
Once you've decided which photos you want to preserve, it's a simple matter of using Life Story Interview Prompts, available through several online resources, as a launching pad to putting just the right words to go with your photos.
Think of it as a guided tour of your life with simple fill-in-the-blank exercises so that you only spend 5-10 minutes at a time.
You don't need to be an expert or a professional writer.
Your life experience is enough! Prepare your content online and publish it nearly effortlessly into a beautiful hardcover memory book that will be cherished for many generations to come.
The important thing is to simply get started...
a little bit every day goes a long way!