Lifescribing

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When you're gone what stories will remain and which ones will disappear forever if you don't write them now? </strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Joan Bulauitan Gallares lost her mother unexpectedly in 2021 she returned home for the wake and found herself listening to stories she'd never heard before - tales of her Mama's younger years and details that painted a fuller picture of the woman Joan had known only as Mama. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It struck her then how much we often leave unsaid and how much disappears when a life ends.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Raising a young daughter of her own Joan began writing down her memories not just to preserve them but to be truly seen by the child who would one day want to know who her mother really was. The act of writing became both a gift and a reckoning: a way to honor her ancestors reconnect with family and find healing in her own unfolding story.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From this deeply personal practice Lifescribing was born.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>More than a guidebook of prompts this soulful companion is filled with Joan's own reflections - tender funny and honest - written in the very spirit she invites you to embrace.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whether you're starting your legacy journal writing for your children or simply longing to make sense of the life you've lived this book will help you begin.</span></p><p></p>