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The Companion Journal

Where Do I Put This Pain?

A Companion Journal to The Silent Wife

Grief arrives without language. This journal gives you somewhere to put it.

The Silent Wife tells one story. This journal is for yours. It carries the memoir's questions into blank pages meant to be written in badly, honestly, and at 3 a.m. if that is when the grief comes.

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Where Do I Put This Pain? — companion journal cover

What's Inside

Guided Prompts

Questions drawn from the chapters of the memoir, for writing your own

Room to Be Honest

Open pages for the days grief does not arrive in complete sentences

Caregiver Pages

For the weight carried while someone else is the patient

Letters You Can't Send

Space to keep talking to the person who is gone

Anniversaries & Hard Days

Pages for the dates that arrive whether you are ready or not

One Step Forward

Prompts for the slow work of learning to live again

How to Use It

There is no right order and no schedule. Read the memoir first, or don't. Start on page one, or open to whatever page finds you. Skip the prompts that aren't yours yet—they will still be there.

This journal is not designed to move you through grief on anyone's timeline. It exists so you have somewhere to set it down for a moment. In memory of the fallen.

For Grief Groups & Book Clubs

The Silent Wife and Where Do I Put This Pain? are often read together—the memoir for the story, the journal for the conversation that follows.

Bulk copies are available for support groups, grief ministries, hospice teams, and first responder departments.

The Silent Wife — book cover