You’ve Been Holding It Together

You’ve Been Holding It Together by Cherise Small explores the quiet cost of always being the dependable one. Drawing from over a decade of clinical experience and her own lived journey, Cherise reflects on the experience of appearing capable on the outside while feeling disconnected from yourself underneath. Through story, insight, and the BLISS framework, the book names patterns many people recognize but rarely have language for. It invites readers to look honestly at what holding everything together has required and what it might mean to begin living differently.