Family Connections with Sarah Garner

My guest today is Sarah Garner, mother and graphic designer from Arizona. She is also the inspiration behind The Kindred Press. Sarah has a passion for family history and stories and isn’t afraid to tackle bits and pieces of past stories that don’t resonate well today—or are downright uncomfortable to think about and difficult to understand. She speaks to the opportunity we all have to add honesty to honor when we look back to our ancestors, and to gratefully learn of their lives in full spectrum. We can discover and document details and we can choose to draw strength from them—even when they are disappointing details.

Sarah has learned that there is personal and even generational healing available to us as we do the work to seek out these important people in our past.

I invited Sarah on my show because I’ve been so impressed with the content she is creating @thekindredpress on Instagram. If you’re interested in family history I would encourage you to follow her there.

I love how Sarah—though just a young mother is so intentional about sharing family stories with her children, in simple ways. She uses kitchen time and family recipes with their associated memories to create opportunities for sharing stories. She loves to display and use personal items, like her husband’s grandma’s apron. Sarah reminds us that there are so many very simple ways to enrich our daily lives with stories from our past.

I opened this episode with Family, written and sung by Zach Gill.