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Families will have YOUR LEGACY for generations to come.
No two lives are the same—and neither are the stories we carry.
The Story We Leave™ is an evolving collection of legacy journals created to help people record their lives, relationships, and memories with honesty and care.
Each journal offers a different doorway into storytelling, and more are being added.
(Hard COVER)
Legacy Book
A Life From Beginning to End
The Story We Leave™: A Life, From Beginning to End is a guided legacy journal designed to help individuals capture their life story in their own words—gently, clearly, and in order.
Rather than jumping between themes, it follows the natural arc of a life, from early family and childhood through adulthood, reflection, and final wishes. Each prompt is an open invitation, with space to write freely, skip pages, or move at your own pace. There is no right way to remember and no pressure to complete every page.
Created for individuals, families, and facilitators, this journal is suited for personal use, guided sessions, hospice or legacy work, and meaningful gifting. Written in calm, non-religious language, it is accessible across beliefs and backgrounds.
More than a journal, it becomes a record of a life—told in the voice of the one who lived it.
This is not a scrapbook and not a fill-it-out-quickly workbook.
It is a meaningful keepsake.
The hardback format offers durability and permanence, making it ideal as a gift, a family archive, or a life record intended to be kept and passed down.
The Story We Leave, A Legacy Journal
is the original guided legacy journal designed to help you reflect on your life, share your wisdom and share your memories for those you love. With thoughtful prompts this journal becomes your beautiful keepsake capturing the lessons, laughter and truths that shaped you. This journal makes it easy to leave behind your story.
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The Story We Leave
(in hard cover)
is a guided legacy journal designed to help you reflect on your life, share your wisdom and share your memories for those you love. With thoughtful prompts this journal becomes your beautiful keepsake capturing the lessons, laughter and truths that shaped you. This journal makes it easy to leave behind your story.
The Hospice Worker’s Gift
This journal is a gift of recognition — created for those who give their presence, compassion, and steadiness at the end of life.
The Hospice Worker’s Gift offers a quiet place to pause and reflect on the emotional weight and meaning of hospice work. It is designed to be used gently, without obligation, allowing hospice workers and volunteers to acknowledge what they carry — both the beauty and the heaviness.
Inside are thoughtful prompts and open pages to explore:
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What this work has given you
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What it has changed in you
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The moments that affirmed your purpose
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The parts of yourself that deserve care, too
This journal is not about doing more — it is about being seen.
Their Stories I Listened To
Some stories are never meant to be shared publicly — but they still need a place to live.
Their Stories I Listened To is a deeply personal reflection journal for hospice workers who have borne witness to the lives, memories, confessions, and truths shared in final moments. It honors the sacred role of listening.
This journal invites you to privately reflect on:
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Stories entrusted to you
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Voices you still hear
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Lessons carried forward
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The human threads that connect one life to another
These pages are not records. They are remembrances — held with respect, privacy, and care.
Because listening is also a form of love.
The Story We Leave and
The Story We Shared
The Story We Shared is for the memories only a best friend can tell.
The laughter, the childhood moments, the secrets, stories that belong to both of you.
This journal gathers those shared memories so they can be passed on—kept alive for family, children, and generations who deserve to know the friendship behind the story.
This legacy journal is in honor of the founder's childhood friend and is meant for those left behind, especially the kids and grandkids.
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The Story We Leave;
Before I Forget
The Story We Leave; Before I Forget
A journal for those with early dementia or early memory issues.
The Story We Leave™: Before I Forget is a gentle, open-format journal for individuals experiencing early dementia or memory change—and for the loved ones beside them.
Unlike traditional memory books that rely on timelines or perfect recall, this journal honors presence over performance. Its uncluttered pages invite words, drawings, symbols, or silence, with no required order and no pressure to fill every page.
With minimal prompts, generous white space, and room for photos or mementos,
Before I Forget supports expression at any stage. Every response—or pause—is part of the story.
Designed for home, care settings, or hospice and memory-care programs, this is not a medical tool.
It does not measure a life.
It gently holds pieces of it—exactly as they are.
Paperback
The Story We Leave -
A Legacy Book for
Life, Illness and What Matters Most
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.
PAPERBACK
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.
PAPERBACK
From ʻĀina to ʻĀina
is a guided legacy book created for those who wish to reflect on a life lived in Hawaii, with meaning and to leave their words behind for those they love.
Designed with care for readers later in life, this book offers gentle prompts that invite memories, reflections, and truths to be shared at an unhurried pace. There is no pressure to fill every page. Readers may write a little or a lot, skip pages, or return whenever they are ready.
This is not a journal about fixing, performing, or explaining a life.
It is a place to remember, to honor, and to be seen.
Inspired by the rhythm of beginnings and endings, From ʻĀina to ʻĀina guides readers through childhood, relationships, belonging, love, loss, gratitude, and the legacy they wish to leave behind. The tone is calm, respectful, and grounded—suitable for personal use, hospice care, or as a meaningful gift for someone nearing the end of life.
This book is an invitation—to rest, to reflect, and to leave behind a legacy of life.
PAPERBACK
The Story We Leave -
My Hawaii Island Life
The Story We Leave™: My Hawai‘i Island Life is a guided memory book created for those whose lives were shaped by time spent on the islands.
This journal offers gentle prompts to help capture moments, reflections, and lessons rooted in island living—life influenced by land and ocean, community and solitude, rhythm and change. It is not a travel journal or a guide to Hawai‘i, but a personal record of how island life shaped your values, memories, and sense of belonging.
Whether you were born in Hawai‘i, lived there for a season, or carry the islands with you wherever you are, this journal creates space to preserve what mattered most.
What you write becomes part of the story you leave.
Paperback
The Story We Leave - Beyond What I was Told: My Legacy of Escaping the Shadows of a Controlling Faith
Paperback
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.
Your story matters.
And the story you leave deserves to be told by you.
The Story We Leave™: Through My Eyes
is a guided legacy journal for parents to reflect on the life of their grown child—capturing memories, moments, pride, and love from a parent’s perspective, in their own words.