Holding Space Friendship Card

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781642464078
• ISBN10: 1642464074
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2022-02-05
• Publisher: Em & Friends

Summary

This card. This card is for the people in your life who were there for you in small and large ways while you figured something out. You know the type of people whom you can connect with right away after you’ve been out of touch for awhile? The people who don’t hold it against you if you don’t return texts right away or show up to parties? The people who would answer their phone in the middle of the night if you called? These people hold space for you to be yourself, to work on things in your head. They wait for you because they know you are worth it. And you are. This card is for them.

This message of joy and gratitude is from our collection of cards by the wonderful illustrator, muralist & storyteller Barry Lee.

• Blank card, A2 size (4.25 x 5.5 inches)
• Printed on heavyweight uncoated stock
• Comes with a matching kraft envelope
• Comes in card sleeve derived from plant-based PLA that is certified compostable

Author Biography

Founded by writer and illustrator Emily McDowell, Em & Friends makes products that speak to the human condition with honesty, humor, and heart. As Em & Friends (previously Emily McDowell & Friends), they partner with different authors and artists to create gifts and cards for the relationships we really have. Their mission is to help people connect when they're not sure what to say.

Em & Friends is perhaps best-known for their Empathy Cards, designed for people going through life's hardest times: major illness, loss, and grief; and inspired by Emily's experience with cancer in her 20s. In our culture, most of us don’t learn how to talk about illness and death. Emily was struck by how lonely and isolated she felt when people disappeared because they didn't know what to say when she was sick—and traditional "get well" card messages weren't terribly helpful. With Empathy Cards, they created unique sympathy cards to help people going through a hard time, and to help friends and family find supportive alternate sympathy messages to write in a card to offer encouragement when they don't know what to say.

In 2018, they joined forces with the kindred spirits at Knock Knock—another female-founded company—uniting as two sister brands under one kickass umbrella. In 2019, they added "Friends" to their product collections—outside creative collaborators, including amazing artists and writers like Elizabeth Gilbert, Lisa Congdon, and Nora McInerny. And in 2022, along with Knock Knock, Em & Friends joined the Union Square & Co. family. No matter how they evolve, their goal will always be the same: to help people feel more connected and less alone.