Why we made Murmurly

Sometimes it is a loop. The same conversation with the same person, the same late night, and nothing resolved. A few days later it is back. You are tired, and so is the other person.

Sometimes it is quieter. Something at work has been sitting on you for a month and you cannot find the way to raise it. Something is going on at home that you are not ready to say out loud. Something lands hard, and the person you would normally call is asleep.

When it gets to the point of asking for help, the first appointment is often weeks away. That is normal. It is also the problem, because weeks is a long time to carry something, and the feeling does not wait its turn.

That is what Murmurly is. A private place to write, and a guided conversation you can open to the people it involves when you are ready. It holds on to what you have already said, so you are never starting from nothing. It is not the appointment, and it is not meant to be. It is for the in between: the weeks before one, the weeks after, and all the ordinary days that do not fall neatly on either side. It is there at eleven at night, and on an ordinary Tuesday when nothing much is wrong.