IF YOU LOVE THEM LEAVE THEM LISTS: A Guide to Navigate Difficult Conversations and Organize Your Affairs

If You Love Them Leave Them Lists — A Guide to Navigate Difficult Conversations and Organize Your Affairs, written by Catherine Rahal, is a short and informative guide on how to organize your affairs to help you prepare a roadmap or legacy notebook, serving as a guide for your representatives: your power of attorney, your healthcare and financial proxy (mandatary), and eventually, when you have passed away, your executor (liquidator). We all like to imagine that our affairs are in order, that our families will have in hand necessary information in the event of our incapacity or passing. Feel secure in the knowledge that your family will be guided by your wishes during challenging times, as much as can be, with this legacy notebook in hand. Well organized and accessible to even those most reluctant to face facts. Ready-to-use lists are there for those who don’t want to invent their own methods. If one wants to feel reassured that all is in order, this is the book to follow.

the eastern United States and followed her late husband to Montreal in Quebec, Canada in 1982. Personal tragedy and financial disaster early in life motivated her to pursue work as a personal financial advisor from 1991 through 2018. Catherine is a published writer, whose personal finance columns have appeared on the Canoe Money website and in the Montreal Gazette. Certifications in elder planning along the way, became the catalyst for working on ways to simplify important decisions for those of us of a certain age. Since "retirement" is not in her vocabulary, the "Lists" project took shape soon after she'd seen clients for the last time. While more flexible time leaves room for family, friends, and especially for much-loved grandchildren, there are other projects in the pipeline.

WENDY MOENIG has a design/writing/marketing background in radio, television, the film industry and professional sports. She is a graduate of Emily Carr College of Art and Design and studied Journalism at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. This broad spectrum of experience has enabled her to find elegant solutions using image and text to tell stories and share ideas - one of her passions for the last 30 years. Her previous position as Senior Graphic Designer with a Canadian NHL team allowed her to visually extol Canada's game. She has also freelanced for such diverse companies as The BC Film Commission, the Burnaby Fine Art Gallery and, in Ontario, Unposed Photography. Born and raised in rural central Alberta, Wendy has lived in Calgary, Victoria, Vancouver and Ottawa. She shares a home with her biologist husband, on a river in a scenic former mill town, in Eastern Ontario.