Loving Them Through Goodbye
A gentle journaling program for the grief of losing a beloved pet, including the hard days before goodbye and the tender days after. These prompts make room for love, fear, memory, guilt, gratitude, and the strange quiet that follows a companion who shaped your daily life. In loving memory of our beloved Bowie.
You write in your own journal. Journal Party brings the guided prompts, the timer, and the sound.
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Your 26-minute guided session
The Shape of This Love · 4 min
What Is Hard Today · 3 min
Before Goodbye · 4 min
The Love Inside the Choices · 5 min
The Empty Places · 4 min
What They Gave You · 3 min
Carrying Them Forward · 3 min
- 7Guided Prompts
- Pen & PaperWrite in your own journal
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This program is for anyone loving a pet through illness, aging, or loss, and for anyone living in the quiet that follows. Across seven prompts, you move through the hard days before goodbye, the choices made from love, and the tender, uneven process of grieving a companion who shaped your everyday life. There is room here for guilt, gratitude, fear, and memory, without rushing any of it. Each session gives you a prompt to open the space, a gentle timer to hold it, and ambient audio to settle your attention. You simply follow where each question leads, whether that means naming what is hard today or noticing what your pet gave you that still lives in you. Whatever comes up is yours. It stays between you and the page. We built this program with therapists on our Mental Health Advisory Board, and we offer it with care, in loving memory of a beloved companion. If you are carrying this particular grief, let these seven prompts walk with you, one page at a time.
A prompt when you need one
Every session opens with a question, so you never start at a blank page.
A timer and music
Each prompt gets its own timer. Turn on music or a soundscape if you like company.
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The first prompt comes up with its timer. Music is up to you.
Write
Answer in your journal at your own pace, then move on to the next prompt.
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"Loving Them Through Goodbye". 7 guided prompts, 26 minutes, at your own pace. All you need is your journal and a pen.