Held: Daily Reflections for Living Gently

By Vanessa France

Held is a yearlong collection of daily reflections for anyone learning how to live with more presence, honesty, and self-compassion.

Written to be returned to again and again, these reflections follow the rhythm of the seasons and the quiet work of becoming - through rest and renewal, grief and gratitude, faith and endurance, tenderness and trust.

Rather than offering techniques or prescriptions, Held creates space. Space to slow down. Space to breathe. Space to notice what is already steady beneath your feet. Each day invites the reader to pause, reflect, and remain connected to themselves without pressure to fix, improve, or explain.

Rooted in lived experience and shaped by the natural turning of the year, this book meets readers in ordinary moments - early mornings, heavy days, uncertain seasons - and reminds them they are not alone.

Held is for those navigating healing, change, faith, caregiving, sobriety, grief, or simply the quiet ache of being human.

This is not a book to finish, but one to live with. Open it anywhere. Stay as long as you need. Begin again whenever you're ready.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GNNZZMCW
• ISBN13: 9798993074344
• Release Date: February 2026
• Publisher: Grace & Light Press
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"