Letters to prisoners.
Every morning, we write to men serving time in Singapore’s prisons. More than 35,000 letters so far. We do it so that people who feel cut off from the world know that someone outside still remembers and includes them.
Why we write
Time in prison is time away from the world. For many inmates, the harder part is not the walls — it is the quiet fear of being slowly forgotten by everyone outside. Letters answer that fear.
A letter says something simple: You are still part of the world. Someone outside is thinking about you today.
What we write about
The letters are not sermons and not advice. They are ordinary, honest writing about the things everyone struggles with — regret, anger, family, shame, hope, and how to live with a mistake without being destroyed by it. Many of the same ideas we teach in our self-compassion classes appear here, written plainly, for people who need them most.
Every day, without fail
This work has continued every morning since 2022, through good days and difficult ones. It does not stop for holidays, and it did not stop for a terminal cancer diagnosis. Consistency is the point: An inmate who receives a letter one week and nothing after that learns only that people give up.
This work is funded by our classes.
Every paid self-compassion class helps pay for the letters, the postage, and the time. When you book a class, you keep this going.