The Story We Leave™: The Art of Impatienc-ing is a thoughtfully designed prompted journal that helps you navigate the emotional realities of caregiving, waiting, and loving someone through cognitive decline.

This journal includes:

• 100 unique reflection prompts
• Space for daily or occasional writing
• Support for processing grief, stress, and uncertainty
• Encouragement to recognize your strength and resilience

Perfect for:

• Dementia caregivers
• Spouses and partners
• Adult children supporting aging parents
• Anyone experiencing the emotional weight of “the waiting”

You don’t have to carry everything alone.
This journal gives you a place to put it.

What Lives in the Waiting is a guided journal for those navigating life’s in-between moments—grief, transition, uncertainty, and quiet becoming.

Created as part of The Story We Leave™ series, this journal offers a gentle space to reflect, process, and reconnect with yourself when life feels paused, unclear, or unfinished.

There are seasons in life when nothing feels clear.

You are no longer who you were…
but you are not yet who you are becoming.

What Lives in the Waiting was created for that space.

Whether you are grieving a loss, adjusting after caregiving, facing a life transition, or simply feeling suspended between chapters, this journal meets you where you are—with no pressure to have answers.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Thoughtful, open-ended prompts
• Space for reflection, memory, and emotional processing
• Gentle guidance without overwhelm
• A calm, supportive tone for difficult seasons

This is not about fixing or rushing forward.
It is about honoring the moment you are in.

Because even when it feels like nothing is happening…
something is.

Your story is still unfolding.

The Story We Leave™: Through the Hardest Battles was created for those living with serious illness who want a quiet place to reflect, remember, and leave their words behind—without pressure, timelines, or expectations.

These pages offer gentle prompts to help capture memories, thoughts, love, fears, gratitude, and the truths that matter most. 

This is not about fighting or fixing.
It is about dignity, honesty, and being seen as a whole person.

Whether used during treatment, uncertainty, or toward the end of life, this book holds space for your story—exactly as it is.

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My Life on Maui – A Personal Story & Memory Journal

My Life on Maui is a beautifully guided journal created for anyone who has lived, loved, or been shaped by the spirit of Maui.

This keepsake invites you to gently reflect on the moments that made island life meaningful—sunrises and trade winds, quiet beaches and busy roads, friendships formed, challenges faced, and the rhythms that only Maui can teach. Whether you were born on the island, raised a family there, worked, wandered, or simply felt Maui become part of your heart, this journal offers a peaceful space to capture your story.

Perfect for:

• Maui residents and former residents

• Islanders who have moved away but still carry Maui with them

• Families preserving personal history

• Anyone who wants to reflect on a life shaped by place, culture, and connection

The Story We Leave™: My Oʻahu Life

A Guided Island Life Journal

Oʻahu is more than a place—it is a lived experience.

The Story We Leave™: My Oʻahu Life is a guided reflection journal for anyone whose life has been shaped by Oʻahu, whether you were born here, raised here, arrived later, or carry the island with you long after leaving.

Through thoughtfully written, one-per-page prompts, this journal invites you to reflect on daily life, memory, change, belonging, and the quiet moments that often go unrecorded. There is no pressure to write perfectly or to finish every page. Each prompt is an invitation, not an expectation.

Inside you’ll find:

• Guided, first-person prompts (one per page)

• Spacious lined pages for writing

• A calm, non-directive tone suitable for any stage of life

• Opening and closing reflection pages

• A signature page to mark completion

• Part of The Story We Leave™ reflective journal collection

Your story doesn’t have to be complete to be meaningful.
It only has to be yours.

The Story We Leave - The Story Before You 

is a quiet, guided journal created for parents who want to share the truth of their relationship with their child’s other parent—honestly, gently, and without blame.

These pages offer space to reflect on what came before: the love, the challenges, the growth, and the lessons learned. Not to revisit conflict or assign fault, but to offer understanding, context, and reassurance.

Written to be read only when the child is ready, this book helps ensure that important questions never have to be carried in silence. It is a gift of clarity, compassion, and care— and written with love.

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The Story We Leave - Our Journey to You

The Story We Leave – Our Journey to You is a guided legacy journal for parents to share the story of their path to adoption and the love that led them to their child. Through thoughtful prompts, it preserves the journey, hopes, and moments that brought your family together.

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The Story We Leave™: The Stories Behind the Lessons is a guided legacy journal created especially for educators—teachers, mentors, and those who have shaped lives far beyond the classroom.

Through thoughtful prompts, this journal invites educators to reflect on the moments that mattered most: the lessons that stayed with them, the students who changed them, the challenges they carried quietly, and the values they passed on without always realizing it. It honors not just curriculum taught, but the unseen work—patience, care, influence, and presence—that defines a life in education.

This book is a place to preserve the stories behind the lessons, so they aren’t lost to time, but remembered, shared, and carried forward.

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The Story We Leave™: The Music I Carried

is a guided legacy journal created for musicians—those who have lived their lives through rhythm, melody, and sound.

This journal is dedicated to Debb's late husband, a true musician his entire life, spanning many years playing with heart and soul. It was what drove his life and with his many relatives before him doing the same, it came naturally. It was what brought Debb & Timm together.

Through thoughtful prompts, this journal invites musicians to reflect on the music that shaped them, the songs that carried meaning, the moments of creation and performance, and the stories behind the sound. It honors the practice, passion, struggle, and joy woven into a life of music—both the notes played and the ones held quietly inside.

This book is a place to preserve the music beyond the instrument, capturing the legacy of a life expressed through sound.

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Beyond What I was Told: My Legacy of Escaping the Shadows of a Controlling Faith 

Leaving a controlling faith or high-control belief system is rarely sudden.
It unfolds quietly—through questions that won’t settle, truths that no longer fit, and moments when silence becomes impossible.

The Story We Leave™: Beyond What I Was Told is a guided legacy journal created for those who have questioned, doubted, and ultimately chosen to step away from a controlling religious or spiritual environment. It offers a private, structured space to reflect on what you were taught, what you experienced, what you discovered, and what you now claim as your own truth.

Rather than telling you what to believe, this journal honors the reality that awareness often arrives in fragments. Through gentle prompts and spacious pages, it supports you in naming suppressed thoughts, reclaiming your voice, and documenting the journey of leaving—at your own pace and in your own words.

This is not a workbook, a therapy manual, or an argument.
It is a witness.

Whether your story includes questioning doctrine, confronting control, breaking silence, or rebuilding identity after leaving a faith community, this journal provides a safe place to preserve your lived truth—free from pressure, judgment, or expectation.

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 The Story We Leave™: Behind the Walls: A Journal of Reflection, Growth, and Hope

Every life holds a story worth telling.

Behind the Walls is a guided reflection journal created for individuals living through incarceration — a quiet space to think, remember, and put thoughts into words. These pages are not about judgment. They are about honesty, self-discovery, and the possibility of growth, no matter where someone’s journey has taken them.

Through thoughtful prompts, this journal encourages reflection on life before, during, and beyond confinement. It invites writers to explore lessons learned, relationships, regrets, hopes, and the person they are becoming.

Designed with a calm, respectful tone, this journal can be used privately, in counseling settings, faith-based programs, or as part of personal healing and legacy work.

Inside you’ll find:

• Gentle, guided prompts for self-reflection

• Space for personal writing and honest storytelling

• A supportive, nonjudgmental approach

• Encouragement toward accountability, healing, and hope

• A meaningful way to leave a personal record of growth and insight

Part of The Story We Leave™ journal series, this edition honors the belief that every person is more than one chapter of their life — and that every story deserves to be heard.