Use these cards with a friend, a partner, a therapist or a parent – in any situation where you might want to explore a range of emotional options in order to define what is truly coursing through you. With charm and ease, you’ll become clearer to yourself – and a lot more understandable and open to others.

Our true emotions often lie slightly out of reach. Use these cards whenever you want to get more precise about what might really be happening in your mind – in order to explain yourself to others or (just as usefully) to yourself.

Instructions

Run swiftly through the cards, picking out any that ring a bell and capture something you are feeling at the moment. You might identify 5 or 10 cards that seem particularly apt.

Lay the cards you’ve chosen out on the table in front of you and expand on them, digging into the reasons why you picked them:

What drew you to a given emotion?
What are the stories and sensations that lie behind a particular card?
What do you want to do about every emotion you’re experiencing?

Repeat regularly whenever confusion descends.