In Your Own Time - A Guided Grief Journal
A meaningful gift for you or someone you love. A simple place to start, in your own time.
A 225 page companion for the constant that is grief written by Chantelle Anderson with contributions from grief specialists Doris Zagdanski and Dr Liz Crowe. In your own time is a space to ugly cry, journal, gather moments of ah-ha from like-minded stories and more.
"All the lasagna dishes have been returned, and the flowers going in the bin remind you why you opened this journal. Your life has been turned upside down. You might be exhausted. You could have the grief fog, the nothing stares, no motivation. Maybe you’ve had another day of ugly cries or maybe you just can’t cry at all. Perhaps you’ve been grieving for some time and don’t even know how you feel. It’s the worst club you have ever joined. You never signed up and you can't unsubscribe. Life is hard right now. It's not what it was before grief … or ‘BG’. You're not the same person. What kind of person are you? Will anyone like the new me? Nothing is going to feel ‘good’ again. Self-care could be the last on the list and opening this journal might have taken most of your will power! "
There will be a time when everyone else's lives have gone back to normal and you are still staring into space wondering what just happened. Grief really does suck. More some days than others. This journal creates a safe space for your thoughts, feelings, words, to spill out when carrying the loss alone feels like too much to contain. Let the pages hold some of the weight, the grief, the fear, the loneliness, the loss. Write letters, talk about your future in another life, tell them about this new you that doesn't know who they are any more, tell them you miss them, tell them that you thought of them today.
A meaningful gift for you or someone you love. A simple place to start, in your own time. A 225-page guided journal written by Chantelle Anderson with contributions from grief specialists Doris Zagdanski and Dr Liz Crowe. This compassionate companion offers space to process emotions, explore shared stories from others navigating grief, and discover moments of clarity when you need them most. Grief doesn't follow a timeline. Long after the casseroles are returned and the flowers fade, you might find yourself lost in the fog, struggling to feel anything at all, or overwhelmed by unexpected waves of emotion. This journal meets you exactly where you are—whether you're in the depths of fresh loss or still processing grief that's been with you for years. A safe space to ugly cry, to sit in silence, to question everything, and to slowly find your way forward. Because grief is hard, and you deserve support that understands that.
Knowing how we can help others is hard
Sending a bath soap just doesn’t cut it when they are ugly crying all day, and there are so many unknowns. Nothing we say will make it any better, so we've tried to curate a place with some things for that part of the process.