Available Workbooks/Journals

Memory Care Storytelling Activity

This activity kit will help you bring storytelling into your life and work so that you can create storytelling moments with the people you love and care for.

Tell Your Own Story: A Journal to Capture Your Legacy

This journal was designed for storytellers in their sunset years who you want to get to know better and hear about their memories. This can be completed individually, but the best experience comes from the conversations people can have together.

52 Ways to Write Your Story in a Year - with Guided Prompts

This is a companion book to the 52 Weeks of Storytelling Series and The Legacy Recorder Community Guide. It can be used with it or on it's own. Inside you will find guided prompts with outlining pages in addition to the journal page to get you started on telling your stories or helping someone else tell theirs.

This journal has more structure and the YouTube series is a great way to work through this journal.

Tell Your Own Story: A Recipe Memory Journal

This journal was designed for people who want to record the memories of the recipes they love and want to save. This can be completed individually, but the best experience comes from the conversations people can have together.

52 Ways to Write Your Story in a Year

This is a companion book to The Legacy Recorder Community Guide. It can be used with it or on it's own. Inside you will find prompts to get you started on telling your tall tales or helping someone else tell theirs.

Available Books

The Legacy Recorder Community Guide

What you will find in this book is an easy to use writing method that you can implement in groups or individually with the people you love and care for to help them tell their life stories. You already have everything you need to help someone else rediscover their human dignity, this book makes it a little easier.

You can buy the physical book for $15.00 with free shipping (within the US) by clicking the button below. It is also available as an ebook on Amazon.

Gael Gilliland is the founder of The Legacy Recorder which helps every person tell their life story in a simple, intentional way for future generations to cherish. She is actively working with corporations, non-profits, and senior care facilities to help as many people as she can in recording their legacy. She also published The Legacy Recorder Community Guide so that individuals and families can get started on their legacy today.

In addition to The Legacy Recorder, Gael has been a freelance writer for over ten years. She’s worked with businesses and individuals to help them create clear and effective writing. Her projects include several full length books, articles, and social media content for full calendar years.

Gael is fortunate to work with her lifelong passion. From a young age, Gael had the desire to master the written word and help people tell their stories. Her own life experiences in college, motherhood, marriage, and loss have fueled her own story and given it a colorful arc of ups and downs, of losing and finding herself, and of discovering the beauty in every person’s story. This is why she has made it her mission to get those stories down on paper, before those stories fade.