journal
notes from the making of it.
essays on intimacy, presence, and why closeness is something you practise rather than something you have. one of these goes out with the monthly letter.
Design
Why every card asks a question.
Most card games are designed to fill time. We wanted our cards to do the opposite — to create a small moment of pause, so two people actually look at each other before anything else happens.
READ →Embodiment
The case for slowness.
The best moments with another person almost always happen in the gaps. Not during the planned thing — in the pause before, the drive home, the moment neither of you is performing.
READ →Relationships
What emotional safety actually feels like.
Most people have never had a word for it. They have just noticed its absence — the subtle bracing, the things left unsaid, the conversations that feel like minefields you navigate.
READ →Vulnerability
Performance entered intimacy.
There is a moment in most relationships when something shifts — when two people stop showing up for each other and start showing up as something for each other.
READ →Systems
The systems behind disconnected intimacy.
When people feel disconnected, the first instinct is to look for a personal explanation. But often the cause is not personal at all — it is built into the systems we live inside.
READ →Aliveness
You are allowed to be fully alive.
At some point, most of us learned to regulate how much we feel. To turn things down, to be easier, less, more palatable. This is an invitation to stop doing that.
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