Real Questions For
GETTING TO KNOW YOURSELF
When did you last ask yourself something you couldn’t answer right away?
Most of the questions you answer all day belong to someone else. This deck turns them inward, the quiet ones you never quite make time for. Pour a coffee, draw a card, and sit with it as long as it takes. {THE AND} Self Edition is built for one, though nothing stops you from handing a card to someone who knows you well.
199 questions and prompts. One deck. The conversation you only have with yourself.
It Asks What You Wouldn’t Think to Ask
{THE AND} Self Edition turns the questions outward life never makes time for back toward you. Each prompt opens a line of self-reflection you’d be unlikely to reach on your own, so you end up somewhere you didn’t expect, not just restating what you already knew.
Better Than a Blank Page
No blinking cursor, no “what do I even write.” The card hands you the prompt and you take it from there, on paper, out loud, or just in your head on a walk. All the depth of journaling, none of the staring at nothing.
There's No Wrong Way to Do It
One card or ten. A daily ritual or once in a while when you need it. There’s no streak to keep and no finish line, pick it up when you want to think, put it down when you’re done.
A NEW WAY TO PRACTICE
SELF LOVE
Explore self reflection and development & use {THE AND} self edition to focus on asking better questions to deepen your self understanding, overcome self limiting beliefs, cultivate self-love, clarify your purpose, and hit your goals.
Navigate decisions, obstacles and challenges when you are wondering how to overcome a challenge or when feeling blocked by a big decision. {THE AND} Self Edition will help you see things from a new perspective & gain clarity on how to move forwards and build your life in authentic alignment with your core values and passions.
{THE AND} Self Edition is also the perfect gift for birthdays, life milestones, and to support people through big decisions, transitions and challenges in life. Whatever life brings up, these cards will give the profound gift of greater self knowledge.
FAQs
{THE AND} Self Edition is a self-reflection card game from The Skin Deep, made to be played on your own. It’s a deck of questions and prompts for self-discovery, the quiet, inward ones you never quite make time for, that you work through solo, at your own pace, with a coffee or a notebook or just your own thoughts.
They’re prompts for self-reflection that go past the obvious, not “what are your goals” but the ones you’d be unlikely to ask yourself on your own. (Originals in the same spirit, not from the deck: “What are you pretending not to know?” “What would you do differently if no one would ever find out?”) Each card gives you somewhere to start, so you end up somewhere you didn’t expect.
It’s for anyone who wants to think more clearly about their own life, people who journal, people who’ve always meant to, and anyone at a turning point taking stock of where they are and where they’re headed. No experience with self-reflection or journaling required; the cards do the asking.
A journal gives you a blank page; {THE AND} Self Edition gives you the prompt. If journaling always stalls at “what do I even write,” this solves exactly that, you draw a card and start from a real question instead of a cursor blinking at nothing. You still get all the depth of journaling, and you can write your answers down, say them out loud, or just sit with them. Many people use it alongside a journal rather than instead of one.
Yes. It’s designed as a solo deck, but the questions work just as well handed to someone who knows you well, a partner, a close friend, a family member. On your own it’s self-reflection; with one other person it becomes a surprisingly honest conversation about who you are. Either way, it’s the same deck.