Holding Both: A Journal for Caregivers by Maria Messer, book cover

The Journal

Holding Both: A Journal for Caregivers

Tender mess. Quiet magic.

We spend so much time holding everyone else that we forget how to hold ourselves. This journal is a place to start.

Seven ways to come back to yourself: reconnect, imagine, move, write, reframe, notice, and rest. Short reflections, a question to carry with you, and open pages for whatever you're holding. No rules. No streaks.

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Seven Ways to Come Back to Yourself

A free printable for caregivers and the people who care for others at work. Seven small practices, most of them five minutes or less.

Each page has a short reflection, four small things to try, a question to sit with, and room to write.

Seven Ways to Come Back to Yourself, a free guide by Maria Messer

About the Book

This book is for leaders, parents, and caregivers who are doing their best in seasons that don't come with clear answers.

Through personal stories, leadership lessons, and practical reflections, Maria invites you into the work of holding more than one truth at a time- strength and tenderness, certainty and doubt, grace and grief-and leading and loving anyway.

This isn't a book about having it all figured out. It's a book about learning to stay steady when you don't.