Grief care packages

When words
fall short,
send this.

Nothing I send feels like it carries the weight of what they're going through.

The Grief Kit is what to send instead. A workbook that explains what grief does to your body and your memory, two decks of prompts, a keepsake vessel, and three months of the app. Ships in 24 hours with a handwritten note.

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Thruology Grief Kit flat lay: navy lighthouse gift box with Start Here guide, In Loving Memory and Building a New Normal card decks, journal and pen, keepsake vessel necklace, plantable seed card and tissues

A care package with substance

The Grief Kit

Most sympathy gifts are a gesture. This one has work in it. The workbook explains what grief actually does to your body, your memory and your sense of time, so the strange parts stop reading as something going wrong with you. The decks give you somewhere to start on the days you cannot find one. No fluff, no empty comfort, no five neat stages.

$69.99In stock, ships in 24 hours
  • Start Here guide, written for the year after, not the first week
  • In Loving Memory and Building a New Normal card decks
  • Grief workbook, journal and pen
  • Keepsake vessel for ashes, hair or a small token
  • Plantable seed card and tissues
  • Three months of the Thruology app, included
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What this is

No fluff. No empty comfort.

Grief is not five stages and it does not run on a schedule. It comes in waves, it wrecks your memory, it makes ordinary tasks feel enormous, and almost nobody tells you any of that in advance. A Thruology kit is built to explain what is happening and give you something to do with it: real material, real prompts, a beginning and an end.

Each kit is one box plus three months of an app, built around a single transition. You use it, you move through it, you close it. Nothing here is designed to hold your attention forever. We will not tell you how to feel, and we will not pretend to be the person you lost. It is not care from a professional either. If you need that, a doctor or a licensed counsellor is the right call, and the Support page lists places to start.

Included with the kit

A quiet companion, not another feed.

Your kit unlocks its own place in the app: the guide you are partway through, both card decks, journaling, breathing, and a small moderated room of people in the same chapter. No algorithm, no streaks, no notifications you did not ask for.

Three months of everything, included with the Grief Kit.

The Thruology app, home screen

Before you buy

The questions people actually ask.

Mostly from people buying this for somebody else, usually in a hurry, usually at a bad moment.

What do you send someone who is grieving?

Something that is still useful in month four. Flowers are gone in a week and food runs out by Thursday, and both arrive in the stretch when the person is too numb to notice. The Grief Kit is built for the part after that: a workbook, two decks of prompts, a keepsake vessel, a journal and pen, a plantable seed card, and three months of the Thruology app. It costs $69.99 and ships in 24 hours.

What is actually in the Grief Kit?

A Start Here guide written for the year after rather than the first week. A grief workbook of twelve chapters. Two card decks, In Loving Memory and Building a New Normal. A journal and pen. A keepsake vessel necklace that holds ashes, a lock of hair or a small token. A plantable seed card. Tissues. And a code for three months of the Thruology app, which carries the whole kit on a phone.

Can I send it straight to them?

Yes, and most people do. Ship it to their address, add your note at checkout and we write it on the card by hand. There is no price anywhere in the box and no invoice in the package.

How fast does it ship?

In stock orders placed before 2pm Eastern on a business day go out the same day; everything else within 24 business hours. Standard delivery is two to five business days after that, and free on orders over $65, which a kit on its own clears.

Is this therapy?

No. It is a set of tools and a structure, not care from a professional, and nothing in it diagnoses or treats anything. If you are struggling, a doctor or a licensed counsellor is the right call. If you are in crisis in the US, call or text 988, any time. The Support page has more places to start.

Is it the right thing for a coworker, or is that too much?

It reads as considered rather than intimate, which is usually what people are worried about. It is a box of practical things with no religious framing and no assumptions about who died. Plenty go to colleagues and to the wider family rather than the closest person.

Do I need the app to use the kit?

No. The box works entirely on its own. The app carries the same material in a pocket, which matters at 4am and in a car park, and it adds journaling, breathing and a small moderated community. Three months come with every kit, and the code is in the box.

What if it is not right?

Thirty days to send it back unused for a full refund. If it turns up damaged or we sent the wrong thing, we fix it and you do not post anything back.

Why is it called Thruology?

Thruology, pronounced thru-ology. Thru as in through: not around it, not over it, not past it. Everything we make is built on the idea that the only way out of a hard chapter is through the middle of it, and that going through it is easier with the right things in your hands.

Still not sure it is the right thing to send? Ask us. A person reads it.

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If you are in crisis, please do not wait on us. In the US you can call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, any time.

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