The Skin Deep is an Emmy award-winning creative studio and publisher, with a purpose to explore human emotion and intimacy in the digital age.

And their YouTube channel really packs a punch. Pioneering a concept called, the studio sets two people with an intense connection face to face, pushing them to ask the sorts of poignant questions that draw important, emotional responses. The sorts of questions that have typically gone unsaid that people might have been too scared to ask but desperate to know the answers to.Įach version comes with 199 cards, prompting questions. To give you some insight into what we experienced, a few of the questions that came up were: 'What do you think I want most from life? What's something I really need to hear? When do you feel most secure in our friendship?' I recently tried out the Friends Edition over Zoom with my BFF and it was an eye opening experience. As a person who naturally tends to overthink things and who suffers from self-doubt, it's affected me in both my personal and work lives, preventing me from celebrating my accomplishments, so she made me consider giving myself more credit, more often.īut the thing that really surprised me was in answer to the question: 'What’s the last thing you learned that changed you?' Hearing my friend telling me that I’m stronger than I think I am had a profound impact.

To which she replied: 'No matter the time you invest in people, they still don’t owe you anything, as connections with people shouldn’t be transactional.'Īnd it's made me think about other relationships in my life. I've been of the firm belief that what you give, you should see in return, but I think I understand her point that this isn't always the case.

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