LeaveLight: A Motivational Guide to Holistic End-of-Life Planning, Foreword by Colin Tipping

by Marilyn L. Geary, Colin C. Tipping (Foreword by), Jacqueline Janssen

A Motivational Guide to Holistic End-of-Life Planning integrates the spiritual aspects of end-of-life planning with the practical aspects of making important legal, financial, and health decisions. In addition to checklists, forms, and resource materials, LeaveLight contains motivational elements that enable readers to actually complete their end-of-life planning. LeaveLight's all-embracing approach to spirituality encompasses both those in organized religions and those whose spirituality lies within themselves. Its steps encourage readers to reflect on issues such as health, inheritance, and legacy in light of the values they hold true. Its visualizations take readers on a gentle passage inward to consider the universal spiritual values of forgiveness, compassion, gratitude, and surrender. LeaveLight helps readers make important end-of-life decisions that will guide their loved ones through the difficult time after death. It guides readers to create a legacy of memories, beliefs, and values for loved ones left behind. It encourages readers to consider that life can be lived to the fullest by acknowledging that each moment could be the last.

234 pages, Paperback

First published January 8, 2010

About the author

Marilyn L. Geary is an oral historian and author specializing in immigration history.

She has conducted over one hundred oral histories that offer insight into the history of the County of Marin in Northern California. Her community oral history projects include the book Marin City Memories and the film Marin Mind/Scapes: Art, Nature and Wellness. Her writings have appeared in the West Marin Review, Oral History Review, and the Marin Independent Journal. She is Board Secretary of the Institute for Historical Study.