Telling your story is good for you. Here is why.

Reminiscence therapy has been studied seriously since the 1960s. The consistent finding across hundreds of trials: when older adults are guided through structured recall of their own life stories, they report higher wellbeing, lower rates of depression, and stronger sense of identity.

This isn't nostalgia for its own sake. It's the act of making meaning from experience — of looking back at a life and finding a coherent shape in it.

Most of that research happened in clinical settings with trained facilitators. The therapy was effective, but hard to scale and expensive to deliver.

A guided conversation that fits in someone's pocket, available in 50 languages, that a grandchild can set up in five minutes — that's a different kind of reach.