I have 3 children all evenly spaced out and all extremely unique. So each experience as they have grown has changed and will continue to...

From when they were born to now full blow 30 something adults the feeling of holding them has never changed.

I held my first child (boy) always. I would have him in a baby carrier to my chest while I cook, cleaned, worked in our home office.

There are so many experiences that I could share about my children.

Holding my child for the first time was a release of excitement and anticipation...

My own experience of holding, does not relate to my own children, but rather to my nieces.

I remember her hands.

My son, Throughout years of searching for a diagnosis for your health issues, opportunities for holding became few and far between, and fr

When I first began researching holding, I looked up ‘mother holding child’ on the internet, I particularly wanted to see what images...

So, you’re not an artist, you don’t have oil paints, you have three children under 5 years of age, you have painful arthritis, you have...

There are many valuable ways to explore holding. We could have created a questionnaire and given it to a large random selection of...

For many parents, an upside of the terrible virus currently re-shaping our world is that we get to spend more time with our children. A...

All participants shared stories of holding, both verbal and visual, through their drawings, collage, installations and explorations....

Along with a sense of purpose experienced during holding, participants felt that they deliberately expanded what they were capable of in...

Three mothers and I explored maternal holding experiences by delving into memories of holding our children. For Kitty, Rosanna, Leni and...

In this first post, I thought it might be helpful to speak about my own experience and the reasons for the creation of the website. More...