A Place to Put It Down

A free personal Grief Journal brought to you by the Center for Emotional Education and Full-Time Grievers.

Grief gives us so much to carry – thoughts, memories, questions, anger, longing, love that has nowhere to go.

A Place to Put It Down is a gentle framework designed to help you set some of that weight down — without being asked to fix it, transmute it, or move on.

This isn’t about healing — you’re not sick, you’re grieving. This isn’t about keeping yourself on a timeline, because grief doesn’t have one.

This is about honesty, care, and having somewhere safe for what you’re holding.

What This Is

This is a 48-prompt grief journal for people in bereavement — whether you’re in the early days, the long middle, or well beyond a year.

The prompts offer straightforward ways to:

• put words to what hurts

• protect what matters – including important parts of your relationship with your person

• release some things, if that feels right

• and keep other things close, with intention

What This Is Not

This journal is not intended to be:

• a checklist for being okay

• a gratitude exercise

• a way to “get closure”

• a demand to share your grief publicly

  
  Nothing here asks you to rush, reframe, or perform.

How to Use It

Go at your pace.

You don’t have to do it in order.

You don’t have to do all of it.

You can open to the page that meets you where you are.

Or start from the beginning and work your way through.

Some pages help you set things down.

Others help you hold them with care.

Both are valid.

Get the Free Grief Journal

A Place to Put It Down is offered as: 

• a printable PDF with additional blank pages to print

• or an editable PDF.
  

If you’d like a quiet place to tell the truth about your grief —

this is here for you.

Keep Listening.