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Self-guided journals Published by Diehl House Books LLC West Coast, Florida · Est. MMXXVI
Abigail Alder  ·  Imprint I

Journals
for life's
passages.

For the transitions that matter most — grief, love, change, becoming. Written by Abigail Alder, with 28 years of holding space for others.

28 Years as a caregiver
2 Titles in print
20+ Titles in development
§ I

The Journals
of Abigail Alder.

Spring 2026
Amazon KDP, worldwide
Life Transitions
My Freshman Year — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions · Teens

My Freshman Year

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

A new school, a new locker, a new sense of who you're becoming. This guided journal helps incoming high schoolers find confidence and direction as they step into freshman year.

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My Senior Year — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions · Teens

My Senior Year

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

The last locker, the last first day, the countdown to something new. This guided journal helps seniors embrace their final months of high school with intention.

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My High School Years — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions · Teens

My High School Years

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

The middle stretch — 10th and 11th grade — where identity sharpens and choices start to matter. This guided journal helps students discover their path through the years that shape what comes next.

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My 8th Grade Year — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions · Tweens

My 8th Grade Year

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

The final stretch of middle school, and the biggest year yet. This guided journal helps 8th graders step into their last chapter with confidence, ready for high school.

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My Middle School Years — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions · Tweens

My Middle School Years

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

Sixth and seventh grade — the years identity starts to take shape. This guided journal helps middle schoolers embrace who they're becoming with confidence.

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Empty Nest
The Empty Nest Awakening — Abigail Alder
Life Transitions

The Empty Nest Awakening

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

The children have left. The house is quiet in a way it never was before. And now, for the first time in a long time, the question is: who are you, without the role? This journal is for the season after — the grief, the relief, the rediscovery. Written to sit with you through all of it.

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For Parents
Homeschool Mom Needs a Minute — Abigail Alder
Parenting · Homeschool

Homeschool Mom Needs a Minute

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

Between lesson plans, snack demands, and the fifth interruption before 9am — a moment to breathe. This guided journal helps homeschool moms rediscover joy amid the beautiful chaos of home education.

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Single Mom Daily Chaos Journal — Abigail Alder
Parenting · Single Motherhood

Single Mom Daily Chaos Journal

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

Shoes by the door, coffee in hand, out the door before it all falls apart. This guided journal helps single mothers reclaim their time and peace, one chaotic day at a time.

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Career · New Grads
Land It — Abigail Alder
Career · New Grads

Land It

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

The degree is done. Now comes the job search. This strategic 60-day guided journal helps new graduates master the job search with structure and confidence.

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Grief & Remembrance
Paws in Time — Abigail Alder
Grief · Pet Loss

Paws in Time

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

A paw print in the mud, a worn tennis ball left in the yard. This guided journal helps you remember the pet who changed your life, one gentle prompt at a time.

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Roots for Grandma's Stories — Abigail Alder
Family · Legacy

Roots for Grandma's Stories

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

A life's journey, written down before it's forgotten. This guided journal helps grandmothers preserve their legacy in their own words, for the grandchildren who will treasure it.

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Roots for Dad's Stories — Abigail Alder
Family · Legacy

Roots for Dad's Stories

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

A lifetime of wisdom, worth writing down. This guided journal helps fathers rediscover and record their life's story and family history for generations to come.

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Roots for Mom's Stories — Abigail Alder
Family · Legacy

Roots for Mom's Stories

Self-guided journal · Abigail Alder

A mother's life, told in her own words. This guided journal helps mothers honor their story as a lasting heirloom memory book for the family.

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Series · Life Planning
Future Perfect — Abigail Alder
Series · Life Planning

Future Perfect

Guided series · Abigail Alder

The Future Perfect series is built around the life you are in the process of becoming. Not aspirational fantasy — grounded, practical, honest guided work for the person who knows where they want to go and needs the structure to get there. Multiple volumes, each one a distinct life passage.

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Future Perfect: The First Year of Marriage — Abigail Alder
Series · Newlywed

Future Perfect: The First Year of Marriage

Future Perfect Series · Abigail Alder

The wedding is over. Now the real work begins — and it is the best kind of work. This 60-day guided journal helps newlyweds build an intentional partnership from the first days of marriage: shared values, honest conversations, and the habits that hold a life together.

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Future Perfect: The Father of the Bride — Abigail Alder
Series · Wedding

Future Perfect: The Father of the Bride

Future Perfect Series · Abigail Alder

Watching her walk down the aisle stirs up more than anyone warns you about. This guided journal helps the father of the bride process the moment he's raised her for.

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Future Perfect: The Groom's Edition — Abigail Alder
Series · Wedding

Future Perfect: The Groom's Edition

Future Perfect Series · Abigail Alder

Marriage isn't just something that happens to you — it's something you build. This 60-day guided journal helps intentional grooms step into marriage with clarity and purpose.

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Future Perfect: The Mother of the Bride — Abigail Alder
Series · Wedding

Future Perfect: The Mother of the Bride

Future Perfect Series · Abigail Alder

Sixty days for navigating a daughter's wedding journey — the joy, the letting go, the new chapter ahead. This guided journal helps mothers of the bride hold the moment well.

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Forthcoming
More in
the works.
Grief · Wedding · & more
Always Growing

More journals on the way.

2026 & beyond

Grief journals. Wedding journals. Journals for the caregiver who needs someone in their corner for once. Abby's catalog is growing steadily — follow the Abigail Alder imprint on Amazon to be notified when new titles ship.

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§ II  ·  About the author

Abigail Alder.

Abigail Alder has been a caregiver for 28 years. A nurse by training. A kind soul by nature. She spent decades sitting with people at the hardest moments of their lives — in cancer wards, in recovery rooms, in grief.

"The best journals aren't diaries. They are maps drawn while you're still lost."

She knows what it actually feels like to sit across from someone who is scared, or in pain, or just trying to hold it together. That knowledge shapes every prompt she writes. Every Abigail Alder journal is built the way good care is given: with structure, with warmth, and without talking down to the person who needs it.

She publishes under the Abigail Alder imprint through Diehl House Books LLC, an independent press on the west coast of Florida.

01
Warmth without fluff.
These journals are warm, never saccharine. Every prompt is there to do a job — to move you, to name something, to clear a little space. Not to make you feel better temporarily. To help you actually get better.
02
Written for the real moment.
Not for the version of you that has it together. For the one sitting in the quiet house, or the full one that's about to become quiet. The language meets you where you are.
03
Structure is a kindness.
A blank journal is an act of abandonment. A well-designed one is a hand extended. Abby builds the architecture — what goes where, in what order — so you don't have to.
§ III  ·  Letters

A letter,
now and again.

When a new journal ships, or there's something worth saying — Abby writes a short note. No algorithm, no noise. Just a letter, from her desk to yours.

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§ IV  ·  Write to Abby

Say hello.

Reader notes, stockist enquiries, or just something worth saying — Abby reads every message.

Thank you — Abby will be in touch.