The Years You Were Home
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Every other book about the empty nest tells you to reinvent yourself by the second chapter. This one stops first.
It begins with the day or week they moved out — the drive, the packing, the night that followed — and gives you eight pages to write it down before asking a single question about your future.
What you gain is room to grieve honestly and then, at your own pace, a clear-eyed look at who you are when mothering is no longer the daily job.
It is for the mother whose last child has just gone, or is going, and who is proud of them and hollowed out at the same time. It is a thoughtful gift for a sister, friend or wife entering this season — and equally a book to buy for yourself.
Inside are 63 guided prompt pages, each with one question and wide ruled lines beneath it. There are pages for the first morning that is yours, for building social anchors against loneliness, and for choosing a quarterly focus instead of attempting a total life overhaul.
There are letters to write: to the mother you were, the woman you were at twenty-five, the woman you will be at seventy, your partner, and each adult child.
At the back is a five-year section to return to at the end of each year, allowing the journal to keep recording who you become long after the first difficult year has passed.
100 pages across eleven chapters, with cream paper, generous white space and wide ruled lines made for a real pen.
An Analog Society book, published by Sovereign Publishing in Sydney.
Book specifications
Format: Paperback, perfect bound
Pages: 100
Size: 6 × 9 in
Paper: 60# cream, uncoated
Interior: Premium black & white
Body text: 12pt
Cover: Matte
Series: Keepsake Series
Publisher: Analog Society
Language: English
Printed to order, one copy at a time.
The Years You Were Home
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