Hello Delightful You!
Welcome to your Sunday LoveGram.
Today I have a very special guest on my audio LoveGram.
And, this may very well be the most meaningful audio I have ever made.
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Meet Lisa (pictured above) who is one of the most generous, light-filled, quirky, creative, open-hearted, loving, vulnerable people you will ever encounter.
I met her at a women’s retreat more than a decade ago. I loved her instantly. She is a talented writer with a unique voice and she is one of those unapologetically authentic people who is easy to be around because of that. (It is refreshing to get to know someone who isn’t afraid to have you get to know them!)
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Last week, I received an email from Lisa with a strange subject line,”Lisa Myers Farewell Tour.”
I was puzzled by that subject line, but also quite curious. I’d been lucky enough to coach Lisa previously on a few of her quirky and meaningful creative projects — like the time she wanted to create buttons that said, “Be You” and pass them out to people on the street in order to remind people of the importance of being ourselves in the world.
Every interaction I’d ever had with Lisa was touching, heartfelt, and interesting, so I eagerly opened her email.
It turns out that Lisa has been suffering with uterine cancer and chose to forgo treatment in order to preserve her quality of life. She had been scheduled for surgery, but the doctors were unable to proceed due to serious risks of a stroke or fatality.
“Thus,” Lisa wrote, “I signed up for home hospice and in true Lisa Myers fashion, decided to embark on the Lisa Myers Farewell Tour.”
Lisa explained more: “I decided to contact important people who have been my mentors for writing and for living a good life. I’m reaching out because you’ve had a great impact on my life, and you were the first person I thought of when I decided to do my farewell tour in the form of live, in-person LOVE LISTS.
I’m beyond grateful for the chance to share with people what they’ve meant to me.
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Today’s audio LoveGram is a conversation I had with Lisa two days ago about what this “Farewell Tour” has meant to her and some of the messages she passionately wants YOU to hear before she departs this planet.
Lisa was so generous in spending time with me for this one-of-a-kind LoveGram.
She and had had a Zoom call earlier this week and two hours flew by! I’d recorded that call in hopes of sharing it with you, but gosh, there was just too many golden nuggets to try to begin to think about how to edit it down.
I reached out and asked Lisa if we could meet again so I could record her LoveGram message straight through, and she said SURE! (Remember, I told you she is a very giving person!)
(To listen to today’s audio LoveGram, just scroll down on this page and click play on the audio player below!)
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If you are the sort of person who sometimes listens right away to these LoveGrams and other times you set them aside for later, I want to implore you to LISTEN to this one right NOW.
Lisa shares with us the most important things she’s learned in her almost-64 years on earth.
Honestly, Lisa and I both feel that there is a divine intervention of sorts happening here. Like the Universe, God, Source, the Great Sumpthin’ Sumpthin’, whatever you call it, REALLY wants the world to hear what she has to say.
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Lisa said, “If I could shout anything from the rooftop right now, it would be that what matters most in life are our connections to the people we love. We have to be more vulnerable and willing to express our love and appreciation. In the end, it is all that counts.”
Lisa continued, “Can you imagine how many people have given and received LOVE LISTS because of you and your book, Say It Now? It doesn’t cost anything, and the rewards are immeasurable. It’s a simple concept, but it’s earth-shattering.”
Lisa told me during our call that she feels strangely blessed to know the day she will die. It has given her this opportunity to say goodbye to many people she has loved along the way. In fact, she said she feels happier than she has in a long time.
Just a tiny percentage of us know the exact day we will die. However, we all know that we will die.
What if we all took a page from Lisa’s book and allowed ourselves to be vulnerable enough and generous enough to write, record, or say out loud our LOVE LISTS to the people who have impacted us most?
What if we chose to make our own end of life — from now until our very last breath — truly count?
Seek celebration — even in dark corners,
xo Sherry
Here’s today’s LoveGram: See purple box below!
Download and listen on the go here: LoveGram 9-15-24