MONDAY MOTIVATION - Tell Your Story

In the past few months, I've been getting ready for a conference that is being held in March in Salt Lake City. It's called Story@Home, and I'm on the planning board. In fact, I'm in charge of SWAG - those cool bags that you get when you go to conferences like this (full of lots of fun stuff). The conference is for anyone who is interested in STORY... family historians, bloggers, story-tellers. If you would love to learn to tell your story, you should come!

Because of this conference, I've been pretty immersed in the whole "STORY" theme lately, and so I thought I'd just throw out a reminder about how important it is to record your cancer story. I know for myself, it was very therapeutic. I kept a blog for a few years, and it became a place where I could just dump everything that was happening to me, sift through it all, and make sense of some very crazy things. I was able to vent to my blog, and it felt good! I had a few followers - people who read my blog. And I'd like to think - at least, I hope - that I helped someone besides myself.

There are so many ways to tell your story... blogs, journals, scrapbooking, published books, voice recording, etc. Just pick one, and DO IT! I promise... it will make you feel better, and help to get those cancer monsters to take a vacation.

If you can't figure out where to start, or if you think you can't remember everything, just ask for my help. I've got a wonderful little tool called a Story Starter that has tons of questions especially designed to bring those memories to the surface.

Oh, and if you are interested in attending the Story@Home conference, here's the information... I hope to see you there!

Story@Home Conference
March 9-10, 2012
Salt Lake City, UT
Hosted by Cherish Bound (online publishing company, with a full line of story-telling helps), Family Search (LDS Geneology website), and the Ashton Family Foundation.

Day one: Main Stage - we will welcome several national story-tellers, some pretty amazing (and famous) bloggers, and some genealogy experts to speak. Also, that day, you'll get to go through a full story class taught by experts from Cherish Bound. Main Stage will be held in the LDS Conference Center Theater.

Day two: A full day of classes - pick whatever you'd like to hear. Again, we'll have guest presenters who will blow your socks off! You'll love it, I promise. The classes will be held in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building (formally, the Hotel Utah).

Here's the website for registration: https://www.cherishbound.com/blog/storyathome/

SUPER IMPORTANT: If you register by February 14th, you'll be entered to win an extra ticket for a friend! AND... if you register before the 25th of February, you'll get an extra special SWAG bag. :) The conference is $79 for both days. WHAT A DEAL!!!

If you are going... let me know - I'd love to talk to you there.

Just learning HOW to tell a story will help you with your cancer story. Your cancer journey is an important time in your life. I'm sure, like me, you learned lots of lessons, and recognized many blessings. Your children, and your children's children will want to hear about your journey. Don't let them down!