Legacy Journals
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.
This is not a scrapbook and not a fill-it-out-quickly workbook.
It is a meaningful keepsake.
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The Story We Leave™ Legacy Journal
Through thoughtful prompts covering childhood, adulthood, life lessons, relationships, personal reflections, end-of-life wishes, and heartfelt letters, it encourages meaningful storytelling while creating a lasting legacy. The journal also includes private reflection pages, planning and preference sections, and space for photos and memories, making it both a treasured memoir and a gift for loved ones.
LIVE LIKE TIME IS TALKING:
What Would Change If You Finally Listened?
A guided journal about how 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.
Still Walking With You:
A Guided Journal for Twinless Twins
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.
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.
This is in honor of the founder's twin sister.
Enough for Today is a gentle guided journal designed for people experiencing overwhelm, anxiety, burnout, productivity guilt, emotional exhaustion, and the constant pressure to “do more.”
Filled with calming reflections, supportive prompts, and compassionate reminders, this journal encourages readers to slow down, release unrealistic expectations, and reconnect with their worth beyond productivity. Inside, readers will find:
- guided journaling prompts
- emotional wellness reflections
- calming mindset reminders
- space for self-reflection
- encouragement for rest and self-compassion
Created for overwhelmed minds and tired hearts, this journal offers a peaceful space to pause, breathe, and remember that rest is not weakness — and being human is enough.
Journals & Miscellaneous Books
THE NEWEST Guide/Reference Book
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.
The central message is that leaving a high-control belief system is not simply an exit—it's a recovery and rediscovery process. The author emphasizes that former members can rebuild meaningful lives, develop healthy relationships, and create a future based on their own values rather than prescribed doctrines.
When Survivor Communities and Their Supporters Turn on Each Other
The safest spaces can fracture. Misunderstandings grow. Trust is broken. Alliances form. Compassion gives way to conflict.
When that happens, the pain can feel like experiencing the original trauma all over again.
Whether you're a survivor, advocate, moderator, peer supporter, therapist, or someone who simply longs for healthier communities, this book offers understanding, validation, and a path toward healing.
Hospice, End-of-Life, Bereavement
The Hospice Worker’s Gift Journal
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.
Their Stories I Listened To Journal
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. Because listening is also a form of love.
The Grief Companion Journal
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 quiet reflection space, and compassionate guidance to help process emotions without pressure or judgment.
The Story We Leave™: The Art of Impatienc-ing
A thoughtfully designed prompted journal that helps you navigate the emotional realities of caregiving, waiting, and loving someone through cognitive decline.
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 unclear or unfinished.
The Story We Leave™: The What-If World™
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.
Its uncluttered pages invite words, drawings, symbols, or silence, with no required order and no pressure to fill every page.
Designed for home, care settings, or hospice and memory-care programs.
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.
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.
Hawaiian Islands
From Ź»Äina to Ź»Äina
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.
The Story We Leave™: My Hawai‘i Island Life
A guided memory book created for those whose lives were shaped by time spent on the islands.
What you write becomes part of the story you leave.
The Story We Leave™: My Life on KauaŹ»i – Legacy Journal
Whether you were born on KauaŹ»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
This keepsake journal 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.
The Story We Leave™: My OŹ»ahu Life
OŹ»ahu is more than a place—it is a lived experience.
The Story We Leave™: My OŹ»ahu Life is a guided reflection journal for anyone whose life has been shaped by OŹ»ahu, whether you were born here, raised here, arrived later, or carry the island with you long after leaving.
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 legacy journal is in honor of the founder's childhood best (late) friend and is meant for those left behind, especially the kids and grandkids.
Through My Eyes
is a guided legacy journal for parents to reflect on the life of their grown child—capturing memories from a parent’s perspective.
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.
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.
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.
The Broken Threads In Between Us
Threads In Between Us Journal 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.
Adoption
The Story We Leave, Threads of My Adoption
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.
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 journal for parents to share the story of their path to adoption and the love that led them to their child.
Paperback
Career Journals
The Story We Leave™: A Veteran’s Legacy Journal
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 and sacrifice.
The Story We Leave™: The Stories Behind the Lessons
A guided legacy journal created especially for educators — teachers, mentors, and those who have shaped lives far beyond the classroom. 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.
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. It honors the unseen emotional labor, resilience, and devotion that define the calling to care.
The Story We Leave™: The Music I Carried
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.
Miscellaneous Journals and Books
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. 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.
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.
All It Would've Taken
A thoughtful reflection on the ending of a decades-long friendship and the quiet truths that emerge when acknowledgment never comes.
Through personal storytelling and gentle reflection prompts, Debb Daughtry explores the cost of silence, the weight of unspoken hurt, and the courage it takes to choose yourself without bitterness or blame.
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.