End-of-Life University Ep. 528 Sharing Our Stories to Preserve Our History with Stephanie Ford
Learn how to discover and preserve our own and others’ stories to provide inspiration in challenging times.
My guest Stephanie Ford is the founder of Life Stories with Steph, a video storytelling service dedicated to preserving personal and family histories. With a background in caregiving, hospice and training as an end-of-life doula, she discusses the importance of sharing and recording stories to preserve legacies and histories of those who came before us. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- How Stephanie became interested in this work
- Why storytelling is important to society and especially to those facing the end of life
- How ordinary lives contain remarkable resilience and hope that can be shared through stories
- How to discover stories of our ancestors
- The value of genealogy work
- Using photos to inspire storytelling
- How to capture small meaningful moments of everyday life
- What services she offers and how it works
- Who benefits from recording and sharing life stories with Steph
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