This is for this moment in your life!
No two lives are the same—and neither are the stories we carry.
The Story We Leave™ is an evolving collection of legacy prompted 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.
Before memories fade, stories can still be told!
40+ guided journals for grief, illness, relationships, memory, and life story.
Plus, bonus books that aren't journals.
NEW JOURNALS Now On AMAZON
Still Walking With You: A Journal for Twinless Twins is a guided grief and reflection journal created for individuals living with the loss of a twin.
This thoughtful journal explores the emotional impact of twin loss through gentle psychological reflections, healing-centered writing prompts, and spacious pages for personal expression. Designed for twinless twins of all ages and life experiences, the journal acknowledges the unique bond between twins and the lasting ways that grief, identity, love, and memory can shape a person’s life.
Inside this journal:
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75 guided reflection prompts
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Psychological reflections throughout each chapter
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Space for emotional processing and remembrance
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Encouraging quotes and healing-centered reflections
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A compassionate, non-clinical approach to grief and identity
Whether your loss is recent or decades old, this journal offers a quiet place to reflect, remember, and continue walking forward while honoring the bond that remains.
Still Walking With You: A Journal for Twinless Twins is a guided grief and reflection journal created for individuals living with the loss of a twin.
This thoughtful journal explores the emotional impact of twin loss through gentle psychological reflections, healing-centered writing prompts, and spacious pages for personal expression. Designed for twinless twins of all ages and life experiences, the journal acknowledges the unique bond between twins and the lasting ways that grief, identity, love, and memory can shape a person’s life.
This is being updated to use paper that is more economical and environmentally friendlier. I'll update soon.
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.
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.
Original cover
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 NEWEST JOURNAL
LIVE LIKE TIME IS TALKING: What Would Change If You Finally Listened?
Time doesn’t speak in words.
It speaks through missed chances, quiet nudges, unexpected endings, second chances, and the moments that make you stop and wonder if you’re truly living the life you were meant to live.
LIVE LIKE TIME IS TALKING is a reflective journal and thought-provoking guide designed to help you slow down, pay attention, and reconnect with what truly matters. Through meaningful prompts, perspective-shifting questions, and honest self-reflection, this book invites you to examine how you spend your days — and what your life may be trying to tell you.
If time could sit across from you and speak honestly… what would it say?
Perfect for readers interested in personal growth, mindfulness, healing, legacy, purpose, and deeper self-awareness, this journal encourages you to stop waiting for “someday” and begin listening now.
Hospice, End-of-Life, Bereavement
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.
It 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
This journal is not about doing more — it is about being seen.
The Story We Leave, 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:
These pages are not records. They are remembrances — held with respect, privacy, and care. Because listening is also a form of love.
The Grief Companion Journal is a gentle place to land when loss feels heavy and words are hard to find.
Designed to support people moving through grief at their own pace, this journal offers thoughtful prompts, quiet reflection space, and compassionate guidance to help process emotions without pressure or judgment. Whether your loss is recent or years old, this journal meets you where you are —
helping you honor memories, release what needs to be said, and carry love forward in your own way.
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.
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.
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The Story We Leave™: The What-If World™
For Children Who Miss Someone They Love
A gentle guided book for children who are missing someone they love.
The What-If World™ offers a safe, imaginative way for kids to express feelings, hold onto memories, and explore connection beyond loss—at their own pace, in their own way.
FICTION
HEALTH
The Story We Leave™: Before I Forget
A gentle, open-format journal for individuals experiencing early dementia or memory change.
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,
Designed for home, care settings, or hospice and memory-care programs,
Paperback
The Story We Leave™: Through the Hardest Battles
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
Hawaiian Islands
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 book is an invitation—to rest, to reflect, and to leave behind a legacy of life.
The Story We Leave™: My Hawai‘i Island Life i
A guided memory book created for those whose lives were shaped by time spent on the islands.
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.
The Story We Leave™: My Life on KauaÊ»i – Legacy Journal
KauaÊ»i is more than a place—it is a feeling, a rhythm, a memory that stays with you long after you leave.
This guided legacy journal is written in the first person, inviting you to reflect on your life on Kauaʻi in your own voice and at your own pace.
Whether you were born on KauaÊ»i, raised there, moved there for a season, or returned again and again, these pages help you capture the moments that shaped you—the land, the people, the quiet days, and the memories that linger.
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.
The Story We Leave™: My OÊ»ahu Life
A Guided Island Life Journal
OÊ»ahu is more than a place—it is a lived experience.
The Story We Leave™: My OÊ»ahu Life is a guided reflection journal for anyone whose life has been shaped by OÊ»ahu, 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.
Your story doesn’t have to be complete to be meaningful.
It only has to be yours.
Family & Relationships
The Story We Leave and 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 best friend and is meant for those left behind, especially the kids and grandkids.
In Hardcover and Paperback
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.
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.
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The Broken Threads In Between Us
Not every relationship ends with understanding.
Not every distance comes with an explanation.
Threads In Between Us is a reflective journal for parents navigating
estrangement, uncertainty, and the quiet questions that often remain.
This is not a book about blame or fixing what has already happened.
It is a space to pause… to reflect… and to gently explore what was lived, what was felt, and what may not have been fully seen—on either side.
The Story We Leave - Before We Promise
This journal is ideal for couples who want to begin a relationship thoughtfully, reconnect with intention, or slow down before making long-term commitments. It is also suitable for partners navigating change, transition, or renewed conversations about what commitment means to them.
The prompts in this book invite reflection on personal history, emotional patterns, boundaries, needs, and hopes. Some questions may feel simple. Others may feel unfinished. Both are welcome. There are no right answers, and no pressure to complete every page.
Before We Promise offers a calm, private space to reflect—so that promises, if they are made, are made with clarity rather than assumption.
Paperback
Adoption
The Story We Leave, Threads of My Adoption
Every life is made of stories, and adoption carries its own unique threads of identity, love, curiosity, and growth.
Threads of My Adoption invites adoptees to reflect on their journey—past, present, and future. With guided prompts and open space for personal memories, this journal becomes a place to explore questions, honor relationships, and preserve the story only you can tell.
Because the story of adoption is not just how life began…
it is how the threads of a life continue to unfold.
This is in honor of all adoptees and In honor of the creator’s late husband, who was adopted by family members, and other members of her family who have opened their hearts and homes through adoption.
Paperback
Love Beyond Goodbye -
A Birth Parent's Adoption Story
A guided journal that gives birth parents a place to share the story behind their adoption journey—honoring love, difficult choices, and the lasting bond with the child they placed.
Paperback
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.
Paperback
Career Journals
The Story We Leave™: A Veteran’s Legacy Journal is a guided keepsake created to honor the lives, memories, and experiences of those who have served. Through thoughtful prompts and reflective pages, veterans are invited to capture stories of service, personal growth, sacrifice, and the moments that shaped who they are — both in uniform and beyond it.
It is a lasting tribute to a life of service.
Hard Cover & Paperback
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 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.
Paperback
Healthcare/ Nurses
The Story We Leave™: The Work Between the Moments
is a guided legacy journal created for nurses whose most meaningful work often happens quietly, between the charting and the care.
Through thoughtful prompts, this journal invites reflection on the moments that shaped a life in healthcare—the patients who were never forgotten, the days that tested strength, the compassion given when there was little left to give, and the humanity carried into every room. It honors the unseen emotional labor, resilience, and devotion that define the calling to care.
Paperback
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, and after, 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. 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.
Paperback
Miscellaneous Journals and Books
The Story We Leave, Looking Back with Gentle Eyes
Trauma changes the way we see the world—but it does not have to define the rest of our lives.
This powerful guided journal invites you to gently explore the parts of your story that were shaped by pain, loss, and survival. Through thoughtful prompts, reflections, and moments of quiet honesty, this book creates a safe space for you to begin understanding what happened… and who you are beyond it.
This is not about reliving the past. It is about honoring it, learning from it, and moving forward with greater self-understanding.
Whether you are early in your healing journey or have been walking this path for years, this journal offers a place where your truth can be written without judgment.
Your story matters.
And healing can begin with a single page.
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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.
Paperback
Rediscovering Life After Scientology: A Practical Guide for Rebuilding and Recovery
Rediscovering Life After Scientology is a compassionate and practical guide for former members, questioning members, and families seeking understanding and recovery after high-control group experiences. Readers will explore:
- The emotional aftermath of leaving
- Fear, guilt, disconnection, and identity confusion
- Recovering critical thinking and personal autonomy
- Relationships, family estrangement, and rebuilding trust
- Mental health, trauma responses, and emotional recovery
- Finances, work, education, and starting over
- Spirituality after Scientology
- Finding community and support
- Creating a meaningful future beyond survival
This guide offers encouragement, practical suggestions, and validation for those navigating one of the most difficult transitions of their lives.
The Story We Leave™: Behind the Walls: A Journal of Reflection, Growth, and Hope
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.
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.