Make Sure Your Stories Won’t Disappear
Guided conversations and carefully written documents preserve what matters most.
You have wisdom to share, made from a lifetime of experience, challenges, and joys. And if you're like most people, you haven't yet had the chance to share it with those closest to you.
For 25 years I have sat with people at some of the most significant moments of their lives — moments of loss, reflection, joy, and reckoning. I have learned that almost everyone has more to say than they have had the chance to say: stories worth preserving, and wisdom worth sharing.
I help people bring give voice to their stories and their wisdom. I bring to this work a rabbi’s training in listening, decades of pastoral experience, and a writer’s attention to how a life can take shape on the page. Through unhurried conversation and careful writing, I help you identify what matters most and put it into words for the people you love.
Two Ways to Preserve What Matters
Ethical Will
Your values, your wisdom, your blessing.
A traditional will distributes what you've accumulated. An ethical will passes on something harder to name and more important: what you believe, what you've learned, what you hope for the people you love.
Most people sense there are things they want to say — lessons earned through difficulty, commitments that have guided them, blessings they want to leave behind. Few find a way to say them clearly. Through attentive conversation, I help you identify what you most want your loved ones to receive, and I write it in a form they can keep.
$375 Includes: Two 90-minute guided conversations · A written ethical will of approximately 1–2 pages · Review and refinement of the final document
Life Portrait
The story of your life, told for those you love.
Every life has a shape: experiences that marked you, relationships that changed you, choices that defined you, difficulties that taught you something you couldn't have learned any other way. This written portrait gathers all of that into a polished written narrative — not a list of dates and facts, but a real account of a life, in your own words, preserved for the people who come after you.
Through four unhurried conversations, I draw out the memories and moments that matter most. Then I write them into a document your family can read, share, and return to.
$1500 Includes: Four 90-minute guided interviews · A written personal narrative of approximately 8–12 pages · Review, revision, and refinement of the final document.
Contact Rabbi Josh to learn more or to get started.
