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The Grief Prep Workbook

For the Person Who Knows Loss Is Coming

You know this is coming. You don't have to be blindsided by it. This workbook helps you prepare.

This is for:

For the person who can see loss coming and wants to do something with the waiting before the grief arrives.

You'll produce:your Your Grief Prep Agreement

The Name It First Experience

Most grief resources are written for after. This one is written for the time before — when you can see loss coming and want to do something with the waiting. Your Grief Prep Agreement names what you know, what you'll need, and what will hold when the day arrives. The output is not a plan for staying strong. It is Your Grief Prep Agreement.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What do you most fear about the grief ahead — and what do you already know about how you need to be held?
  2. What support do you have — and what gaps are you already noticing?
  3. What is something about this person you most want to preserve — a memory, a voice, a habit of theirs?
  4. What does self-care look like for you in grief — what do you know about how to take care of yourself?

Research basis

Lindemann and Rando anticipatory grief research / hospice bereavement preparation studies / White narrative therapy / Butler life review research.

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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.

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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.

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We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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Choose your pace.

The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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