ABSTRACT
This chapter follows the inquiry journey Rosanna and I shared as we asked what holding was like for her and her four daughters. Through dialogue, stories, embodied awareness and arts representations including drawings and installations, we came to know more about Rosanna’s holding experiences. In her late 50s, all of Rosanna’s children had left home by the time we started our sessions. A mother of four adult daughters (Elaina, twins Olivia and Lillian, and youngest, Deanna), Rosanna worked as a therapist and had undertaken intense therapy herself. Deeply curious and compassionate about human experiencing, Rosanna brought these qualities to our inquiry as we moved from painful experiences of ‘not holding’ to experiences of holding with technology across distance and time. Holding involved similarities and differences between daughters but ultimately Rosanna conveyed a strong sense of the enormity of love felt during moments of holding.
