Begin

A few gentle questions, a short baseline, your goals, and your two logs — set up and ready for whenever the next wave comes. Nothing here fixes anything yet. Just the starting line.

What this program won't do

Let's start with what this program won't do, because it matters more than what it will. It won't end your grief. It won't put it on a schedule, or tell you that you're behind, or that you should be further along by now. Grief doesn't move in a straight line from bad to fine — it moves in waves, on no schedule anyone gets to set, least of all an app.

Some days it's the whole room. Some days it's quiet, sitting somewhere behind you, and you build a day around it anyway. Both of those are the same person. Still here. This is skills — for living alongside what you're carrying. Not for making it smaller.

How the six weeks work

• Six weeks, in a fixed order: how grief actually moves, riding a wave without fighting it, small steps back toward living, the people around you — and carrying all of it forward together.
• Two small logs. A grief-wave log, right after a wave hits — how strong, what helped. A meaningful-action log, once a day — one small step back toward life, however small it is.
• Every week, we read the numbers together. Not a scoreboard for fewer waves — that was never the goal. Just a record that you're navigating them, and still building something alongside them.

A few gentle questions, before anything else

Not a checklist — just so this fits where you actually are today.

If what you're carrying is very recent, there's no rush here, and no clock starts today just because you opened this app. Some people find it easier to wait a bit before work this structured. If that's you, a lighter mode is ready instead: grounding, steadying, and the numbers to call if you need a person right now. The rest of this program stays one tap away, whenever you're ready.

If your grief has never once eased, in any way, over a long stretch of time — and it's making it hard to work, sleep, or be with people, most days, for a good while now — I want to be gentle and direct at the same time: that calls for a grief specialist, not an app. This program can still sit alongside that care, in a lighter, steadier mode, never in place of it.

And if anything you're carrying includes thoughts of ending your life, stop with me here. That's serious, and I won't look past it. A crisis-resources card comes next, and it stays on every screen, from here on. Use it. Please.

If none of that is where you are today, then let's begin gently — a short baseline, your goals, and your first log, set up and ready.