Gentle Reminders: A Deep, Loving Guide to Help You Show Up for Yourself & Others

Meet your new best journal friend — Gentle Reminders Journal — A Deep Loving Guide to Helping You Show Up for Yourself and Your People. Barry Lee, the imaginative, singular talent behind the beloved Gentle Reminders Deck, has gifted us all with their latest effort toward guiding people to show themselves tender loving care. This guided journal is perfect for anyone who wants to go deeper into figuring out how to be the kind of human who can be there for themselves and the community of people they care about. It’s divided into three sections, Tending to Ourselves, Tending to Each Other and Tending to Our Futures, all of which will help you create your own gentle reminders to use when you need them. 

Barry Lee is the artist and writer behind the Gentle Reminders Oracle Deck and has a 6-card collection with Em & Friends. 

• Written and illustrated by Barry Lee.
• 7” x 8” trim size
• 144 pages
• Features include: elastic closure band + a  2-sided colorful ribbon marker
• Rounded corners + lay flat binding
• Colored edges + accordion pocket on inner back cover

Barry Lee (they/them) is an illustrator, muralist & storyteller based in Atlanta, GA. Barry is a creative problem solver who tells meaningful stories using a cast of colorful characters and always a dash of mindfulness and intention. Growing up with a rare syndrome called Nager's Syndrome, they spent their time drawing constantly as a distraction from endless doctor's appointments and surgeries. Barry turned that distraction as a child into a career as an adult, learning that "distraction" was a form of healing through creating art. Barry's process is rooted in making sure that the work they put out is intentional, whether it's doing extensive research for client projects or looking within their own intuition to create illustrations that resonate heavily with others' experiences.

EM & FRIENDS makes cards and products for the relationships people really have and the lives we really lead: relationships and lives that are messy and beautiful, tricky and wonderful, and a whole bunch of everything else in between. We want people to feel truly seen, heard, and connected to the people they love—including themselves!—in good times, crazy times, and really freaking hard times. (Especially those times.)