Embrace Community.
Experience Healing.
Being Together > Having it Together.
You’ve found yourself in a hard season- the messy middle- and going through it alone is only going to make it harder.
You’re waking up each morning and wondering-
how did I get here, and how will I ever get through this?
does anyone else even understand what I’m going through?
On top of this, your support system, if you have one, may also dealing with their own struggles. So, while people are offering to help one another, each of you are probably thinking-
I don’t even know what I need.
I don’t really want to put anyone out by reaching out.
I doubt anyone will want to be around me if I’m sad or complaining all the time.
It didn’t go so well for me the last time I tried to share my experience with someone.
Ultimately, you (and your friends) silently resolve to just hold back believing:
I just have to find a way to get through this on my own.
I won’t burden others with my pain.
Meanwhile you’re - researching, reading books and posts and articles, watching videos and listening to podcasts- anything to help you understand how to “get it together”.
But what if it’s more about “being together” and less about “having it together”?
Being Together > Having it Together.
While books, podcasts, and programs are informative, impactful, and insightful (and surely have their place) they can’t show up to YOUR PLACE with dinner, offer a box of kleenexes, or respond with a text at 3 am to remind you that it won’t always be this way. This is why Don’t Hold Back invites you to choose to love wildly, live authentically, and lean into community. It’s not about fixing or figuring it out, but it’s about finding a way through, TOGETHER.
If you’re thinking…
“Vulnerability sounds risky”.
OR
“I can’t even fully handle what I have going on in my own life, how in the world can I help my friends?”
Our response is:
“What’s more risky than being isolated with your loneliness, shame, or fear?”
And
“What if it’s less about helping your friends and more about healing WITH your friends?”
Here at Don’t Hold Back, we’re about eradicating loneliness, shame, and fear through the power of connection, grace, and hope.
Take a simple, yet significant step toward a new reality today- allowing your messy middle to bring about, instead of preventing, connection.
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“Whitney masterfully invites us to greater living, deeper loving, and higher looking. Her tenacity for uprightness merged with her story-driven teaching style, makes the invitation to love wildly as equally tangible as it is contagious. In just one session, I received a toolbox full of practical steps to make supernatural moves in my life.”
- Kelly Carlson, Founder & CEO of Project Lightwell Foundation
“Whitney is always willing to go into the hard depths with women in pain, surrounding them with extra support yet also giving them the courage to anchor onto hope.”
- Angela Mancini, Founder and Lead Facilitator of Armed and Deployed Curriculum
“Whether you have just found yourself in the valley or you are supporting someone through adversity, your journey forward will be better with Whitney in your corner.”
- Kelly Olson, Founder of The Baton Pass
About Whitney
Whitney Mallory is an avid writer, passionate speaker, and the founder of Don’t Hold Back, a project committed to eradicating isolation in suffering by equipping people to love others well when they are going through the worst. She holds her license as a professional counselor and spent over a decade in education working with students first as an English teacher and then as a school counselor. She currently serves The Baton Pass, an organization dedicated to connecting stories and passing hope, as both the Central IL Chapter Director and Director for the Glimmers of Hope .
Whitney acknowledges that she is a work-in-progress and shows up to any space just as she is hoping that others feel safe to do the same. She is a devoted wife to her favorite person on the planet- Tyler, and together they are raising their three precious, silly, and fiercely loved children. Her favorite things include inviting new and longtime friends over for a home-cooked meal, family bike rides, laughing, and retelling wild stories about the ways Jesus shows His love for us.
