THE MEMOIR + COMPANION JOURNAL
Holding Space
You don't just read this. You move through it.
A memoir and companion journal for the moments when caring for everyone else leaves little room for yourself. One experience designed to help you recognize what you're carrying, make space for what you're feeling, and reconnect with who you are.
THE STORY BEHIND THE PAGES
Before it was a book, it was a life being lived.
When Deidra Jackson stepped into the role of caregiver for her Vietnam veteran father, she discovered how quietly caregiving can reshape a life. What begins as helping with everyday needs can become a profound shift in responsibility, relationships, and identity.
Holding Space grew from that experience. Written with honesty, faith, and compassion, the memoir gives language to the emotions caregivers often carry silently. It reminds us that caring deeply for someone else should not require disappearing from our own lives.
This is more than a story about caregiving. It's an invitation to recognize yourself within it.
THE HOLDING SPACE EXPERIENCE
Two Parts. One Experience.
One gives language to what you're carrying. The other gives you room to put it down.
01 / RECOGNITION
The Memoir
An honest account of caregiving, faith, responsibility, and identity. Through Deidra's story, readers find language for experiences they may never have been able to name.
02 / RELEASE
The Journal
A companion for reflection, with open, unprompted pages and passages from the memoir woven throughout. A place to process your own story without being told what to feel or write.
Recognition makes room for release.
WORDS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO'VE EXPERIENCED IT
Real stories. Real recognition.
Sometimes the most powerful part of a story is discovering that someone else understands yours.
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“This book hit home for me in a way I didn't expect. I felt myself in so many of these pages — the quiet guilt, the exhaustion you can't name, the small moments of grace that keep you going when your heart feels stretched thin.”
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“There are many books out there on the subject of caregiving. This one is different because it is raw and honest but not bitter. It feels like a mother's hug to read it and the words are food for the soul.”
A story that meets readers where they are.
YOUR STORY DESERVES SPACE, TOO
Make Space for Yourself.
You don't have to wait until everything settles to reconnect with yourself. Begin with a story that recognizes what you're carrying and a place to release what you no longer need to hold alone.
Recognition. Release. A little more room for you.