The CARE and HOLD Model for transforming the mental load and re-imagining care in partnerships.
For parents, caregivers, couples and professionals that support them.
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A professional guide for using the CARE & HOLD models in clinical and professional settings.
This instructor manual is designed for therapists, coaches, and helping professionals who work with individuals or couples navigating the mental load, relational equity, and caregiving dynamics.
The CARE & HOLD frameworks offer more than a strategy for dividing tasks—they provide a deeper lens into how care is shaped by identity, socialization, and systemic narratives. This manual equips you to bring that lens into your practice with nuance, depth, and structure.
Inside this manual, you'll find:
A detailed breakdown of both the CARE and HOLD models
Clinical implications and theoretical underpinnings for each model component
Practitioner tools for assessment, education, and intervention
Worksheets, reflection prompts, and guided conversation frameworks
Common client challenges and recommended entry points for deeper work
Considerations for working with couples, new parents, and individual clients
Language to support identity work, reduce defensiveness, and increase buy-in
Whether you’re working with clients in early parenting, rebalancing partnership dynamics, or exploring individual identity shifts, this manual will help you move beyond surface interventions and into transformational care-based practice.
This is not a script—it’s a scaffold.
Designed to support your expertise while offering structure, language, and insight to help your clients move from blame and burnout to equity, accountability, and connection.
The CARE and HOLD Instructors Guide - PRE-ORDER
For professionals that support Mothers, Fathers, caregivers and couples in navigating the mental load, invisible labor and caregiving.
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Pre-ORDER price valid until July 24, 2025. Scholarships available as needed to increase access. EMAIL here.
A guided resource for couples and caregivers ready to rethink how care is shared at home.
This workbook was created for those who find themselves returning to the same mental load conversations—ones that often lead to frustration, shutdown, or no real change. Even in relationships built on love, equity, and good intentions, patterns of imbalance can persist.
Drawing from the CARE & HOLD models, this resource helps couples move beyond surface-level solutions like task lists and check-ins, and into the deeper, more meaningful work of unlearning socialized roles, understanding identity dynamics, and co-creating a new care culture—together.
This workbook includes:
A breakdown of common mental load challenges from each partner’s perspective
Why many “solutions” don’t stick—and what’s often missing
Reflection questions to explore how each partner has been shaped by gender and caregiving expectations
Conversation prompts to support deeper dialogue and understanding
A process to create a shared definition of care and a family care manifesto
Tools for accountability, repair, and recommitment
Whether you’re just beginning this work or deep in the process, the CARE & HOLD workbook offers a framework to guide your conversations, clarify your values, and support long-term change rooted in connection—not blame.
The CARE and HOLD Model Workbook for Parents, Caregivers and Couples - PRE-ORDER
Pre-ORDER price valid until July 24, 2025. Scholarships available as needed to increase access. EMAIL here.
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