Life Notes: A Guided Journal (for Exploring Your Past, Sharing Your Memories, and Honoring Your Life Story)
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Product Description
Each person has a unique journey. We create, discover, and experience life differently. Let this guided journal be a safe place to pull back the curtain and express your thoughts, emotions, moments, and memories.
It can be intimidating to stare at the pages of a blank journal, which is why this DIY memoir offers a step-by-step guide to tell your story. Each section starts with a brief mindfulness practice to help focus your attention and settle your thoughts. As you move through the pages, you’ll find questions to help you reflect on and write about your life experiences.
Record your own story, or give the journal to a parent, a grandparent, a mentor, or anyone special in your life. After all, it is the sharing of insights and memories that brings us together, builds bridges of understanding, and reveals our humanity for future generations.
Life Notes is divided into 6 sections: self, values, relationships, gratitude, choices, and insights. Take one section at a time, or skip around―it’s your journey.
Review
“This guided journal provides a beautiful and practical framework to enter into a deep spiritual journey of self-examination that could lead to genuine mindfulness, opening ourselves to finding meaning and joy in our lives, based on embracing and celebrating our shared humanity.” —Thupten Jinpa, PhD, principal translator to H.H. the Dalai Lama
“As a journal writer for decades, I have heard from many people that they find it difficult to know how to start. Life Notes is a source of inspiration for anyone interested in capturing their life journey. The author offers excellent tips and insightful prompts to support and guide the reflection process.” —Cynthia Abbott, disability specialist
“This beautifully produced journal provides a clear structure for eliciting my own story that can be passed on for generations. It’s also a perfect gift to enable others to document and honor their parents’, grandparents’, aunts’, uncles’, cousins’, children’s, and friends’ lives.” —Cyd Jenefsky, PhD, Vice Provost, University of the Pacific
About the Author
Theo Koffler is the founder of Mindfulness Without Borders, a nonprofit organization that focuses on advancing social-emotional learning and mindfulness in educational, healthcare, and corporate settings. A mother of two, author, and public speaker, Koffler believes that when individuals are equipped with the skills they need to flourish, they can change themselves, their community, and the world.