by Deborah LeFrank | Aug 16, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories, Sketchnotes
It’s a practise in Japan called shinrin-yoku. At its core, Nature Bathing is about fully being in nature – absorbing or bathing in the atmosphere through your senses. Opening up to the sight, smells, sound, taste and touch of the forest. That means unplugging...
by Deborah LeFrank | Jul 19, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories
“There are places I remember, all my life though some have changed.” This Beatles song really hits the mark because we all carry places and landscapes in our memory bank. Preserving memories like these are my passion. For some people memories of place help them get...
by Deborah LeFrank | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories
Do you agree with this quote? I sure do. Just think about how limiting our conversations would be without storytelling and cherished memories being a central part of the narrative. Memories bind us to who we are and where we are now in life. And yes, some memories do...
by Deborah LeFrank | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories, Uncategorized
Collecting memories over the years I have found the question “how did you meet your true love” always evokes precious stories. I’ve also noticed that when we meet a couple we admire, a favourite question is ‘how did you two meet’? Why not take that...
by Deborah LeFrank | Jun 7, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories
This sketch is a classic example of a picture worth a thousand words. In 1974 a UN base was established in the Golan Heights, a dynamic part of the Middle East. When working on a life story recently I heard that in order to get a beer at the canteen you had to check...
by Deborah LeFrank | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Personal Stories
Do you ever wish you could go back and do something differently? Without fail, every week someone says to me, “My (mother, father, aunt, uncle, sister, brother, cousin…), was the one full of family stories but now they’re gone. I wish we had collected their...
