Holding the Thread
A Practice in Rupture & Repair
A new practice for coming back to ourselves and each other, from Therapy Notebooks and Liberation Ventures. Two minutes to walk through it.
Repair between two people and repair across a country draw on the same muscles.
So we came together to build a practice that starts in everyday relationships and connects to the larger work of repair.
Evidence-based guided journals, made with clinicians, so people feel held while they do the hard inner work.
Brings the clinical design: a step-by-step practice grounded in the research on rupture and repair.
Accelerating the Black-led movement for racial repair.
A team of strategists, storytellers and organizers mobilizing resources, narratives and relationships to build a culture of repair.
Rupture is normal. Repair is how we grow closer.
Every close relationship drifts apart sometimes. It isn’t a sign that something is broken. Finding our way back is how we come to know each other, and ourselves, more deeply.
Repair is a skill. So start where you can stay.
Nobody is born knowing how. It’s learned the way any skill is learned: with reps. And it’s hard to learn while you’re overwhelmed, so you build it on a conflict that feels manageable first.
Repair ripples outward.
The way we repair with one person shapes our families, our communities and the country we share. Practicing repair in your own life is part of building a culture of repair for all of us.
Most conflict books start with your most painful relationship. We start with one you can stay with.
Think of a recent friction with someone close. Tap each statement that’s true.
Every workbook takes one real conflict through the same six steps. Together, they spell REPAIR.
Pick a letter to try one.
One reader to understand repair. Three workbooks to practice it.
Understand
A short primer to read first, then pass to someone you love.
Begin
A manageable conflict, in a relationship you trust, with plenty of guidance.
Deepen
Another conflict, a little closer to home, in more of your own voice.
Stretch
A pattern that keeps coming back, or the person you had in mind from the start.
Repair starts with one person. It doesn’t end there.
Start where you can.
Join the waitlist and be the first to know when Holding the Thread is ready.
- First access when pre-orders open
- A free sample from The Repair Reader
- Occasional notes on the practice as we build it
Repair needs a foundation of safety. This practice isn’t for relationships involving abuse or fear for your safety. In crisis? Call or text 988 (US)
Thank you.
We’ll send your sample from The Repair Reader soon. Until then, try the first step: next time something stings, pause and name one feeling before you respond.