Embracing Your Past: Transforming Diaries into Legacy Letters
Legacy letters are timeless chronicles that capture love, wisdom, and memories, creating a powerful bridge between generations. Unlike an ethical will, which is typically a more formal document focused on values and life lessons, legacy letters are deeply personal and emotional narratives. They allow you to share intimate stories and insights, preserving your family’s heritage for the future.
Transforming old journals into legacy letters is a beautiful way to revisit and share your life’s journey. These letters not only honour your past but also strengthen familial bonds, making them an invaluable gift for future generations.
Legacy Letters: Personal and Emotional
Legacy letters are heartfelt messages written to loved ones, capturing the essence of relationships, family connections, and personal growth. They are meant to evoke emotions, celebrate shared experiences, and offer guidance wrapped in love.
These letters can be as informal or as structured as you wish, focusing on personal anecdotes and heartfelt messages. Unlike ethical wills, which often outline moral values, legacy letters prioritise emotional resonance and storytelling.
Ethical Wills: Guiding Values Across Generations
An ethical will, on the other hand, is a more structured document that passes on values, beliefs, and life lessons. It serves as a moral compass for descendants, providing guidance on navigating life’s challenges and making ethical decisions.
Ethical wills often focus on broader themes, such as the importance of compassion, perseverance, or the principles that have guided your life. These documents are designed to instil a sense of responsibility and purpose in future generations.
The Intersection of Legacy Letters and Ethical Wills
While legacy letters and ethical wills serve different purposes, they are complementary tools for preserving your legacy. Legacy letters capture the emotional and relational aspects of your life, while ethical wills emphasise the principles and values that define your character.
By combining the two, you create a holistic narrative that honours both the emotional and moral dimensions of your life. This dual approach ensures your family inherits not only your wisdom but also your heart.
Learn how to combine legacy writing with ethical wills.
Creating a Heartfelt Connection
Legacy letters offer a deeply personal way to connect with loved ones, leaving them with an enduring sense of your love and presence. Ethical wills, by contrast, offer guidance and wisdom, helping descendants navigate life with clarity and purpose. Together, these documents enrich your family’s history and strengthen its bonds.
As you consider what to include in your legacy, remember that these letters and wills are gifts that transcend time, offering a lasting impact on your family’s story.
Evaheld Legacy Vault
Evaheld is dedicated to empowering people to complete their digital Legacy and Advance Care Planning, with an all-inclusive Evaheld Legacy Vault making it easy, enjoyable and secure to preserve and share your personal and family voice, story and legacy!
Evaheld empowers people to future-proof their voice for better care and well-being, as well as preserve and share their story and legacy for loved ones and future generations.
And with twelve comprehensive categories that cover over 140 different content types, you can confidently create a family heirloom of true value for your loved ones and future generations.
What you can secure in your Evaheld Legacy Vault
1. Family History & Legacy
2. Life Story, Memoir & Personal Truths
3. Preserve a Deceased Loved One's Memory & Legacy
4. Messages for Milestone Occasions
5. Legacy Letters, Ethical Wills & Legacy Statements
6. Life Lessons, Advice, Wisdom
7. Love, Appreciation & Encouragement
8. Future Generations
9. Forgiveness and Reconciliation
10. Funeral Preferences & Messages
11. Digital & Accessible Advance Care Directive
12. Health & Care Preferences
Learn more about setting up a personalised Evaheld Legacy Vault for your family!
With Evaheld, people are supported through the entire creation process, with the world’s most comprehensive suite of content types and in-browser video, audio and written content creation (or uploads), and of course secure lifetime storage. People also have full management over their recipient, privacy and delivery preferences, safeguarding their privacy, independence, and connections to loved ones today, and into the future.
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The Benefits of preserving your personal and family story and legacy with an Evaheld Legacy Vault
Right now you can set up your Unlimited Evaheld Legacy Vault for FREE!
And it gives you everything you need to confidently create, safe-keep and share your most precious content, and gain peace of mind knowing that:
1. You’ve unburdened your family and secured your healthcare wishes, with a legally valid Digital Advance Care Directive, and a whole lot more!
2. You’ve secured your family story, history and legacy with the perfect family heirloom and tribute to your family and past generations!
3. You’ve told your story and shared your truths so that they will be a constant source of inspiration and wisdom for your loved ones and future generations.
4. You’ve prepared a priceless gift for your loved ones, that will continue to keep on giving, such as when they receive future milestone messages from you on significant dates many years into the future, ensuring that whenever they need support, you’ll be there.
5. You’ve preserved the important stories and legacies of loved ones that have passed, so that that knowledge is carried forward to future generations and not lost with you.
With over 12 categories covering all your needs, Evaheld also provides custom resources hubs across Legacy Planning and Advance Care Planning to help you get started, including helpful content like how to write powerful personal legacy statements and an introduction to preserving your family legacy.
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Evaheld’s “Connection is all we have” Hardship Policy
At Evaheld we believe that everyone’s story and legacy is worth sharing, so if you or someone you know needs some hardship assistance, please reach out and let us know, and someone from our team will ensure that money will not prevent anyone from securing their story, connections and legacy for loved ones and future generations. Because at Evaheld we believe that “Connection is all we have,” and that every single story and legacy is worth preserving!
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