The Well-Tended Life

Episode 51: Cultivating Your Legacy with Merle Saferstein

November 15, 2023 Keri Wilt
The Well-Tended Life
Episode 51: Cultivating Your Legacy with Merle Saferstein
Show Notes

Why Listen? In my journal practice, I write down what I call “heart taps”, which are the things that speak directly to my heart. Here are a few of the heart tap moments that I wrote down from this interview:

  1. One of the biggest gifts is a face to face conversation. 
  2. What questions do you need to ask yourself before you enter this next season? 
  3. Who you are is NOT WHAT YOU DO! 
  4. How you live your life becomes your legacy. 
  5. You legacy is less about the stuff you leave behind. 
  6. When you look back in your journals, you notice patterns and themes. 
  7. Journaling allows you the time and space to take the negatives and turn them into positives. 
  8. When you put things on paper, it give those thoughts a home when they can be dealt with. 
  9. Journaling is a gift to ourselves. 
  10. Consider creating an ethical Will or a starting a Legacy Journal today. 
  11. If we don’t take care of ourselves, we can’t take care of others. 

ABOUT THE GUEST:
Merle R. Saferstein is an educator, speaker, author, and a pioneer in the field of legacy journaling. She has been journaling for 48 years and has amassed a collection of 380 journals, the majority of which are the basis for her legacy journal Living and Leaving My Legacy Vols. 1 & 2. After twenty-six years as a Holocaust educator where she worked with hundreds of Holocaust survivors helping them to leave their legacy, she retired and created Living and Leaving Your Legacy®. Through classes, workshops, and lectures, she has guided thousands of people in sacred legacy work, writing for wellness, and journaling. Her short story collection, Room 732, pays homage to the historic Hollywood Beach Hotel. Merle lives in Miami, Florida with her husband of fifty-six years and has two children and two grandchildren.

https://merlersaferstein.com/

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