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Capturing Essence for Care: Storytelling that Promotes Personhood in Healthcare
Feeling overwhelmed by caregiving responsibilities? Struggling to stay present and patient when you're stretched thin? Transform your caregiving relationships in just minutes with evidence-based storytelling strategies that honour the whole person—not just their needs.
Listen for practical tools to:
- Open deeper conversations with aging loved ones, even when time is scarce
- Access life story approaches that reduce caregiver stress and burnout
- Hear real conversations with people with lived experience, including persons living with dementia
- Build meaningful connections that sustain you through the demands of caring
Host Lisa brings together personal historians, digital storytellers, healthcare practitioners, family caregivers, and seniors themselves. Each episode delivers actionable insights for anyone balancing multiple caregiving roles—whether you're supporting aging parents while raising children, managing care from a distance, or working in healthcare while caring for family.
Perfect for: The sandwich generation, family caregivers, adult children of aging parents, healthcare providers, long-term care staff, home health aides, personal support workers, memory care teams, social workers, activity staff, and anyone seeking to preserve dignity and connection in their caregiving relationships.
Join caregivers already transforming their relationships. Discover how small storytelling moments create profound connections—and give you the resilience to keep showing up with compassion.
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Episodes
15 episodes
14. From Nonprofit Leader to Story Doula: How Photography and Video Preserve Life Stories
Storytelling photographer Heather Knox shares her journey from international nonprofit work to helping people capture their life stories through guided autobiography and digital storytelling. With deep experience in service, photography, and no...
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Episode 14
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13. Beyond Self-Doubt: How Dr. Flora Brown Uses Guided Autobiography to Rewrite Limiting Beliefs Into Life Purpose
Dr. Flora Brown shares her journey as a life story coach and guided autobiography facilitator, revealing how childhood experiences eavesdropping in her mother's beauty shop shaped her passion for helping others capture their life stories. She d...
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Episode 13
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12. From Ministry to Memory Care: The Simple Conversation Starters That Unlock Life's Sacred Stories
Whitney Myers, owner and founder of Sacred Stories, shares how personal storytelling through video preserves legacies and enhances care. Her background in ministry, memory care, and family documentation created a natural path toward helping oth...
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Episode 12
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11. Beyond the Chart: How Visual Stories are Healing Healthcare
Visual narratives can impact healthcare by humanizing patient experiences and reconnecting clinical expertise with empathy. Krystle Schofield reveals how by sharing her own journey from photographer to digital storyteller.Key Me...
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Episode 11
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10. Digital Storytelling from a Nursing Perspective: How 3-Minute Patient Videos Improve Care
Show Notes:Maureen Leier, a registered nurse in public health and digital storyteller, joins Lisa to explore how integrating personal life stories into healthcare transforms the quality of care and creates meaningful connections between ...
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Episode 10
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9. The Power of Reframing Your Caregiving Story with Ron Beleno
Ron Beleno is an active advocate for dementia, caregiving, aging and research communities. From lived experience, he encourages others to transform the challenging caregiving journey into one of growth and resilience through his innovativ...
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Episode 9
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8. Reclaiming Narrative Agency: How Stories Empower Persons Living with Dementia
About Our GuestLaura Bowley is the Director of Communications & Development for To Whom I May Concern®, and a senior facilitator and trainer. Since 2012, Laura has collaborated with Maureen Matthews, blending particip...
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Episode 8
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7. Family Story Preservation: How Video Biographies Save Memories
Preserving Family Stories: The Urgent Need for Video BiographyWhen family voices fade into silence, irreplaceable stories disappear forever. Sean Daigle, founder of Memoria Films, shares why capturing video biographies is...
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Episode 7
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6. Why Baby Boomers Aren't Preparing for Aging (And How Person-Centred Care Can Help)
The oldest Baby Boomers will turn 80 in just four years, yet most aren't preparing for aging. Why do we avoid these crucial conversations?In this episode, I explore the gap between our aging reality and our readiness, drawing from...
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Episode 6
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5. Storytelling as Healing: Kristy Wolfe on Vulnerability and Authenticity in Digital Narratives
Show NotesKristy Wolfe is a digital storytelling facilitator and a Wolfe Pack Warrior. She believes there is beauty in every story and she champions real stories in marketing and co...
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Episode 5
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4. Digital Life Stories for Person-Centered Care: How Echobox Memory Vault Enhances Healthcare Storytelling
Show Notes:Tim and Tannis Roberts take time to share about the evolution of Echobox Memory Vault, a storytelling, memory-keeping, ad-free technology that can enhance quality of life for individuals by having opportunities to share...
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Episode 4
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3. The Art and Science of Digital Storytelling: Dr. Mike Lang on Reshaping Healthcare Through Patient Narratives
Dr. Mike Lang is a Digital Storytelling Specialist, Researcher, Film Director/Producer and Social Entrepreneur. He shares with us what Digital Storytelling is and the impact it has as it relates to making positive change in healthcare pol...
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Episode 3
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2. Hidden Visual Treasures: How Home Videos Can Revolutionize Personalized Dementia Care
Have you ever thought about how pictures and videos that you already have stored away somewhere could be used to enhance your own health care experience? Join me as I share my own shift in caring for someone after seeing a daughter...
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Episode 2
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1. Living with Dignity: Dementia Advocate Mary Beth Wighton on Capturing Essence and Improving Healthcare
Join our discussion with Mary Beth Wighton, inspiring international dementia advocate, writer and speaker as we talk about what it's like living with a diagnosis of probable Frontal Temporal Dementia and learn how she captures her essence. &nbs...
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Episode 1
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Capturing Essence for Care: Life Stories Transforming Healthcare Experiences
Capturing Essence for Care: Stories to Transform HealthcareJoin Lisa Joworski, Therapeutic Recreation and Life Story Resource specialist, as she explores how sharing our personal narratives can reduce judgments and transform pat...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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