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Welcome to
our Journal
Here you’ll find reflections, stories, and gentle tools for becoming emotionally complete before your loved one passes. These writings are drawn from both personal experience and the journeys of those I’ve walked alongside.
My hope is that you find something here that helps you breathe a little deeper, speak what needs to be said, and move through this sacred time with more peace.
Supporting Structures: How Exercise Helped Lift Me Up
One of the supporting structures that has helped me the most recently has been exercise, but not just exercise by itself.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Aug 63 min read
No Unfinished Business: the podcast
When people first hear the name No Unfinished Business, one of the first assumptions they may make is that the work is centered around grief.
Stanley Fisher Jr
May 154 min read
One Year Later - Reflecting The Loss Of a Mother
I can’t believe it has already been a year since my mom passed away. In some ways, it feels like it just happened, and in other ways, there is already a strange sense of separation from it.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Apr 226 min read
Books We Recommend: The Four Agreements and the Practice of Keeping Your Personal Power
There are books you read, books you enjoy, and books that become part of the way you live your life. For me, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz belongs in that last category.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Mar 128 min read
The Last Valentine’s Day With My Mom: Choosing Love Before It Was Too Late
One of my last Valentine’s Days with my mom taught me that even in grief, we have a choice: surrender to the pain or create a memory rooted in love.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Feb 135 min read
After Christmas: Sitting With Grief Without Letting It Consume You
A personal reflection on grief after the holidays, learning to feel pain without drowning in it, finding presence, family, and acceptance after losing a parent, and discovering how healing actually happens.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Dec 30, 20254 min read
A Week Before Christmas: Sitting With Grief Instead of Running From It
A week before Christmas, I found myself sitting on the couch, Home Alone playing softly in the background. The house was quiet in that particular way it only gets at night—windows open, cool Florida air moving through the rooms, dogs curled nearby, the world slowed down just enough to feel.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Dec 20, 20254 min read
Laughing Through Loss: Why Joy Belongs in Grief Work
Let’s be honest. When most people hear the words “grief support,” they picture something that feels more clinical than comforting beige walls, dim lighting, and a circle of chairs where everyone whispers about how sad they are. There’s nothing wrong with those spaces; for some people, they’re incredibly healing.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Dec 9, 20252 min read
Six Months Without You: What Grief Really Feels Like When the World Keeps Moving
Six months after losing my mother, grief shows up in quiet moments—on drives home, in memories, in the urge to pick up the phone. This personal reflection explores what healing looks like when life keeps going and the person you want to tell your stories to is no longer here.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Nov 4, 20255 min read
Healing in Real Time: How No Unfinished Business Became a Platinum Sponsor at My 30-Year High School Reunion
At his 30-year high school reunion, Stanley Fisher shared how No Unfinished Business helps people find peace, heal grief, and say what needs to be said.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Oct 13, 20255 min read
Welcome to No Unfinished Business
If you’ve found your way here, chances are your heart is carrying something heavy. You may be walking beside someone you love who is nearing the end of their life, or you may be trying to hold everything together for your family while quietly wondering how to make peace with what’s coming. Wherever you are on that path, please know this: you are not alone.
Stanley Fisher Jr
Aug 1, 20252 min read
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