Get your family talking.
Really talking.
A conversation card game and a 28-day guide for parents of teenagers who've gone quiet. Built by a therapist. Played at kitchen tables.
Be one of the firstA game, not a lecture
The Living Game starts with a deck of 52 question cards, played in three levels. Level 1 is silly on purpose — because laughing together is how a family remembers what easy feels like. Level 2 gets curious. Level 3 goes deeper, once the room is ready. Ten minutes at the dinner table, in the car, or waiting for the chippy.
Why I made it
I'm a hypnotherapist with nearly 30 years experience in the field of Anxiety, Depression and Panic. I work with young people on the things they can't say out loud — and with their parents, who are usually desperate to help and completely out of ideas.
Almost every parent asks me some version of the same question: "Why won't they talk to me?"
Here's what years of this work have taught me: they will. But almost never when they're asked to. Teenagers open up sideways — mid-laugh, mid-game, mid-washing-up — to people who feel safe and aren't fishing. So I built the sideways way in. The cards open the door. The 28-day HOPE guide shows parents what to do once they're through it — because the honest truth is, you can't make a teenager talk. You can become someone they talk to.
Piers DayFounder · Speaker · Therapist
What it's for
The laughing comes back
Ten minutes of daft questions, and a family remembers what easy feels like. Easy is the ground everything else grows from.
You hear more than "fine"
The cards do the asking, so nobody's being quizzed. Adults answer first — and answers arrive that haven't been heard in years.
You learn what opens the door
The deeper cards tell you, in their words, why talking is hard and what would make it easier. That's your map from then on.
And to be straight with you: this isn't therapy, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's a game that builds the conditions real conversations grow in — and it tells you clearly where to turn if your family needs more than a game.
Be one of the first
The Living Game launches soon — starting with the first level of the card deck, free. Leave your details below and you'll be first in line. And if you'd like one-to-one help for your family, there's a space to tell me more.
