Live and Die Awake
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who needs it.

One copy of Live and Die Awake, and the twenty guided meditations it opens into. You will not know what to say. Send it anyway.

Send one to someone

Gifts are arranged by email, so the book arrives on the date you choose and the note reads the way you meant it. Tell us who it is for and we will take it from there.

Live and Die Awake by Julie Wright Halbert, standing upright
The hard part

Everyone freezes at the card.

There is no sentence that fixes it. Which is exactly why the wrong move is the common one: to say nothing, and send nothing, and let the silence do the deciding.

So borrow. Julie has written two lines that hold, and a grieving person would rather read her words in your hand than hear from nobody at all.

Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is a doorway opening into living, into the light.

Julie Wright Halbert

Choose a line for the card

Both lines are Julie Wright Halbert’s own, from Live and Die Awake. Borrow either, or write straight past them.

A white mailbox marked 333, standing alone beside a tree
The Crescent Moon picnic area, Sedona. A single white mailbox marked 333, with no building behind it. The park's address is 333 Red Rock Crossing.

A book that turns up on a Tuesday is the one that arrives after everybody else has stopped calling.

The casseroles stop. The messages thin out around week three, which is roughly when it actually starts. Send something then and you are a person saying you have not forgotten, in a form that can be picked up at two in the morning and put back down without anyone having to be brave about it.

Free with every copy

20

guided meditations,
in Julie’s own voice.

This is the half of the gift that no wrapping can show. The QR codes are printed inside every copy, so the recordings travel with the book and cannot go missing. 30 reflection pauses sit alongside them. Whoever you send this to keeps all of it, for as long as they want it, without giving anybody a card number.

Hear what they get

A few of them

Live and Die Awake: Rising from the AshesA Love Letter to your BelovedA Sacred Grounding Before Saying GoodbyeOpening Yourself to Divine OrchestrationThe Descension and Shattering from GriefBlessings of your Tribe. Connection to Your Roots and Branches of SupportAllowing the Grief to Guide YouFinding the Beauty through the PainChoosing Rebirth

Nine of 20.

How the sending works

Tell us who it is for.

Say as much of this as you have decided and leave the rest to the reply. Julie’s team handles the sending, the timing and the card, so the only thing you have to get right is the person.

Send one to someone

Live and Die Awake publishes on November 4, 2026.

Who it is forTheir name, and your relationship to them if you want to say.
Where it goesTheir address, once we have written back to you.
When it should landA date that matters, or as soon as it can.
What the card saysYour words, or one of Julie's, or both.
Whether they knowSome people want their name on it. Some want the book to arrive without one.

If it is more than one person

A care team, a congregation, a staff, a support circle. Group copies are fulfilled differently, and Julie can come to the room.

Comfort your group
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