Write the letter you needed to write. We hold it for a year and deliver it back to you when the distance helps.
Healing isn't linear and it isn't fast. Anyone who's been through real grief, trauma, or recovery knows that the standard advice — "give it time," "feel your feelings" — is true and also useless because it doesn't tell you what to do in the meantime. The thing therapists, support groups, and recovery programs almost universally recommend, across modalities, is some version of writing. Not journaling exactly. Letter-writing — specifically, a letter you write to a part of yourself that needs to hear something.
A healing letter is one of the most concrete versions of this practice. You write today, when the pain is still close, what you need your future self to know. What you're going through. What you're afraid of. What you've already survived that proves you can survive this. What you want the version of you who reads this in a year to remember about who you were when you were in the middle of it. Then we hold the letter and deliver it back to you a year later.
The version of you opening it has been through the year. The pain has either eased or shifted shape. Either way, the letter from your earlier self hits with a particular weight: it's evidence of the work, evidence of the honesty, evidence that you were paying attention even when you didn't think you could. Many customers write a healing letter every year as part of their long recovery. The stack of letters becomes a record no one else gets to see — the actual story of how you got from there to here.
Three simple steps. One beautiful moment, later.
Pour your heart onto paper. Use our Letter Helper if you'd like prompts. You decide when it should be opened — 1 year or 2 years from now.
Mail your sealed letter to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe — untouched, unopened, waiting.
On your chosen date, we mail your original, handwritten letter with tracking. Your words arrive exactly when they're meant to.
Your letter is in safe hands
You're trusting us with something irreplaceable. Here's what we do about that.
Letters are stored in climate-controlled, fireproof safes — not filing cabinets or cardboard boxes. We treat every letter as irreplaceable, because to someone, it is.
Every letter ships with an active tracking number, so you (or the recipient) know exactly when it's on its way.
If your address changes before your delivery date, email us anytime and we'll update your file. Your letter follows you — no extra fee.
If Hold My Letter ever closes, every stored letter is immediately mailed back to the sender's return address. No exceptions.
One letter. One delivery. One beautiful moment when it returns.
Emailed on your chosen date between 6 months and 2 years out. Add physical mailing for a small fee. Available worldwide — the right choice if you're writing to (or from) outside the United States.
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
One-time payment
+$12 to add physical mailing (first address)
Physical mailing add-on: +$12 for the first address. Each additional unique address: +$2.
The original Hold My Letter experience. Handwrite your letter, seal the envelope, and mail it to our PO Box. We store it in a climate-controlled, fireproof safe until your chosen delivery date — then send it back with tracking, still sealed.
One-time payment
One-time payment
🇺🇸 Currently available for US addresses only. International shipping coming soon!
Everything you need to know, answered plainly.
It only takes 20 minutes. The moment it lands will be worth years.
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