you finished the guide
You read The Official Story Was Wrong.
Holding the unedited version is heavy work. It's also the work that keeps you honest with yourself — and keeps the person you lost a real person, not a sanitized one.
A few next steps, taken at porch pace.
the keepsake made for this exact moment
When the official story was wrong, Tender Ground is the slow ground you rebuild on. Grounding practices, journal prompts, and small daily anchors for the in-between season — for the version of you who knows what really happened and still has to keep living.
See Tender Ground →companion free guide
If the person you're grieving is gone now but was already unreachable before they died — the ambiguous-grief primer names that double loss. A natural next read, if you didn't start there.
Read the companion free guide →sit on the porch a while
These guides exist because of Uncle David — and because of the family edit Briana refused to sign off on. His page is where the real version stays kept.
Visit Uncle David's page →