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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.


Emotional Completeness Coaching: What Coaching With No Unfinished Business Really Looks Like
One of the things we work hard to create at No Unfinished Business is an environment where you can feel at home.

Stanley Fisher Jr
Sep 25 min read


Books We Recommend: Conversations with God — Joy, Truth and Love
There are certain books I recommend because they give you information, and then there are books I recommend because they challenge the way you see yourself and the world around you. Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch is one of those books for me.

Stanley Fisher Jr
Aug 274 min read


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


What No Unfinished Business Is Becoming
When I first started thinking about No Unfinished Business, I had a fairly clear idea of who I wanted to serve. I wanted to help people who were dealing with a loved one facing a long-term illness, because that was the world I knew. That was the world I had lived in for years with my mother. For those who are new here and haven’t read the other parts of my story, my mother struggled with drug addiction and later developed Parkinson’s and dementia. We began to understand the s

Stanley Fisher Jr
Jul 226 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


Grief, Anger, and No Unfinished Business: Preparing Your Heart Before It’s Too Late
Learn the difference between grief, anger, and unfinished business when a loved one is dying. Discover how emotional completeness before deat
Grief is coming no matter how much you clean up. You can do all the right things. You can say the right words. You can set the right boundaries. You can work hard to become emotionally complete with the person you love while they’re still here. And you should. That’s the work. That’s what we do at No Unfinished Business. But none of t

Stanley Fisher Jr
Feb 14 min read


The Voice of No Unfinished Business: Why Michelle Betton Is the Perfect Fit!
Learn why Michelle Betton has been chosen as the official voice of No Unfinished Business, bringing heart, trust, and compassion to our mission.
Keywords: Michelle Betton voice actor, No Unfinished Business brand, grief support storytelling, compassionate voiceover, nonprofit branding

Stanley Fisher Jr
Jan 202 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


5 Best Books to Cope with Grief and Reclaim Your Personal Power
Discover five powerful books that help individuals navigate grief and loss while regaining inner strength. From The Four Agreements to Option B, these self-help and psychology classics offer resilience, meaning, and personal empowerment after loss.

Stanley Fisher Jr
Aug 9, 20253 min read
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