The Heart Legacy Blog

Think about the hardest year of your life. Most of us don't have to search long to find it. Now think about who knows the real story of that year. Not the short version you tell when it comes up, but ...

Let's start by taking a look at the word itself. Legacy comes from the Latin legatus, an envoy or deputy sent to carry out a mission on someone else's behalf. Its earliest known English use, recorded ...

"Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter."

— Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club

Imagine someone being given a letter that was intended for them that they had no previo...

There's often a particular kind of paralysis that sets in the moment someone decides to write about their life. It isn't a blank page that stops them. It's having to travel, in their mind, all the way...

Somewhere in your family, a family tree probably exists in some form. Maybe you're the one who's built it, whether that's a framed print on a wall or a folder of research you've been adding to for yea...

Sit down to preserve your Life Stories, and there is a good chance you will reach first for what happened. The year you were married. The company you built. The illness you survived. These are not sma...

There is a version of you that exists only right now. Not the you of ten years ago, and not the you of ten years from now, but the you sitting here today, with this particular memory still sharp, and ...

Time used to have a particular kind of slowness. It lived in the back seat of a car on a long drive, in the house on an ordinary afternoon before anyone thought to turn on a screen, and in the patient...

Why the Life Stories approach at the heart of Your True Legacy coaching is more accessible, more meaningful, and better suited for preserving what matters most

If you've ever thought about capturing ...

Think about the old handed-down photographs sitting in your home right now — the ones of people you half-recognize, the ones you know nothing about, faces that may look a little like yours but belong ...

There is no single right answer — only the one that feels true to you.

Most people who think about preserving their life stories don't struggle because they lack stories worth telling. They struggle ...

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear...