The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most

The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most and The Gift Companion Workbook are tools for creating a legacy statement. A legacy statement distills the essential truths and messages by which we wish to be remembered.

This unique two-part publication: a book and companion workbook, makes legacy-writing easy and enjoyable. The workbook makes it easy for a friend or family member to work with the author, writing down the stories and memories as they are recalled.

About Me

Christine Cowley, Author

I’m an author, writing coach, radio host, and publisher of corporate history books. I write for a living—a novel in the works, poetry in my heart and often on the page, and corporate histories so full of interesting people, events and whole-world shifts that I must say Yes! even when I’m “too busy.”

I’m a slow reader, a (crazy-ass) collector of more books than I can read in a lifetime, a sometimes poet and a someday playwright.

I’m a wildly fortunate life partner, a fierce mom (yeah, I know they don’t need that anymore), a proud Nana, a sister and a daughter.

I seize any opportunity to support and promote other writers because we must do this for each other! And I just love the courage of creators.

On occasion, I have the opportunity to share some of what I’ve learned with other folks—readers, emerging writers, and life-long learners.

Wonderful to meet you!

What is a legacy statement?

It is the opportunity to share the most personal gift of all: ethical and moral values, wisdom, success and failures, forgiveness, gratitude, opinions and insights based on personal experience and/or lessons from elders.

The Gift: Sharing Your Life Lessons with the People You Love Most contains 24 engaging exercises to guide readers through the steps of creating a legacy statement; easy lessons help recall and relate life experiences, moral and ethical values, personal recollections, and family stories. Writing exercises help facilitate the composition of engaging narratives that inform, illustrate and leave a lasting imprint.

The Gift Companion Workbook provides ample space for recording answers to questions, or for lengthier sharing and storytelling; pages are lined and unlined to allow for illustrations or other images. The workbook can serve as a rough copy for a future manuscript, but is attractive enough to be passed on as the finished product. Instructions for self-publishing help readers create their own books as treasured heirlooms for future generations.

The ease with which answers to questions, stories and reflections can be recorded on behalf of others makes The Gift Companion Workbook an outstanding resource for caregivers, both family and friends of subject storytellers, and professionals. The process of helping someone create a legacy statement provides a unique opportunity for building and healing relationships. Most importantly, it is a warm, engaging way to give assurance that the lessons of a lifetime will be preserved and treasured.

Packaged and priced as a 2-book set with vinyl envelope. Softcover book: 80 pages including blank pages for notes PLUS  Softcover Workbook: 96 pages including blank lined and unlined pages for notes and illustrations