Clarity Cards
Clarity Card Collection
These cards help people distinguish between a bodily sensation, an emotion, and a need. The strategy cards offer concise, specific, and doable actions. This beautiful card collection comprises four individual decks.
Body Awareness
To access the inner wisdom of your body, we need to better understand when our body communicates with us.
Feelings
To increase self-awareness and communicate more effectively, we need to recognize our feelings and name them.
Needs & Desires
To recognize and acknowledge our needs and desires, we need to recognize and name them in a non-judgmental way.
Soul Care
To promote empowerment, inner peace, growth, and vitality, we need to practice strategies aligned with our needs.
$30
Body Awareness Deck
This deck fosters a natural connection to the body and its inner wisdom. Our bodies hold vital information, truths, and memories that are better communicated now, with ease, rather than later, with disease. This deck supports anyone struggling with distorted body signals: highly sensitive people, those with learning differences, various disorders, or individuals suffering from complex trauma.
This deck supports:
- Deeper, more profound listening to personal body signals
- Improved overall awareness of physical sensations and their meaning
- Immediate validation of experiences previously denied/suppressed
- Gaining self-trust in noticing and interpreting body communication successfully
- Restored overall physical strength and well-being
How to Use the Body Awareness Deck
This deck is a valuable means of identifying the myriad ways our body speaks to us that we may not always correctly interpret, or, in some cases, even notice.
Encourage the user to choose any cards that reflect their experience. Prompt them to feel into the origins of these sensations: Are they purely physical in nature, or might they be connected to any of the Feelings or unmet Needs/Desires previously identified with those cards?
When the user takes this opportunity to tune in to their own inner wisdom, they may become aware of what self-care they need to support their body’s well-being going forward.
$30
Feelings Deck
To increase self-awareness and communicate better with others, we need to recognize our feelings and name them.
These cards help you to:
- Accept your feelings and emotions as a natural part of your inner landscape
- Communicate your feelings better as you build an emotional vocabulary
- Help others communicate their feelings as you become more empathetic and receptive to their expressions
How to Use the Feelings Deck
Use the Feelings deck to recognize and acknowledge the array of feelings you are experiencing. Flip over one card at a time. If the word printed on the card resonates with you, keep the card upright. If you do not relate to that emotion, discard it face down. After you have gone through the deck, spread the upright cards in any way that comes naturally to you. Take time to pause and reflect on what you see. Then arrange the cards in groups that are related. Some cards may be specific to your feelings about your partner, parents, job, or an issue that is currently challenging you. Be present to what you notice.
$30
Needs & Desires Deck
We all have needs and desires that are constantly seeking expression. When we become aware of them, we can learn to satisfy, release, or transform them. The Needs and Desires cards provide an effective way to identify our needs and desires.
These cards help you to:
- Recognize and acknowledge your needs and name them in a non-judgmental way
- Accept your needs so that you can find ways to meet them
- Learn to communicate your needs and desires in a direct and clear way
- Enjoy your daily life more as core needs are met
How to Use the Needs & Desires Deck
Many of our uncomfortable feelings that create tension in the body result from not having one or more of our needs met.
Lay out your Feelings cards and then use the Needs and Desires cards to see what would help you to shift those feelings. After going through the whole deck, select 1-7 cards that feel most pressing. Brainstorm strategies to meet those needs. What can you ask yourself, and what can you ask of others, to help you meet those needs?
$30
Soul Care Deck
This deck offers simple, actionable strategies that promote empowerment, inner peace, growth, vitality, and resilience when aligned with your needs.
Use these cards to:
- Connect your feelings and needs with actions that foster self-care
- Learn meaningful ways to use your time wisely
- Be in harmony with the flow by knowing a constructive next step
- Reduce anxiety, stress, and depression by prompting yourself to take action to bring relief and healing
How to Use the Soul Care Strategies Deck.
Go through the deck, looking at each card, and choose one or more actions that resonate most with you. Trust yourself. Give yourself a timeframe, such as within a day or by the weekend. Follow through with your chosen action. Afterward, pause and reflect on the value of what you did. Allow yourself to fully receive the benefits.
$50
Feelings + Needs and Desires Combo Decks
Get two of our most popular decks and save $10.
Learn more about each deck.
$85
Clarity Card Collection
You will also receive plastic protective cases for the decks and a z-fold guidebook.
Specifications
- 54 cards in each deck
- Size dimensions: 2.5 inches wide by 3.5 inches high (standard poker card size)
- Weight: less than 5 ounces per deck
- Hard plastic case for each deck
- Art and words by Joy Caffrey
- Includes z-fold guidebook
For Therapists, Counselors, and Coaches
About 8 years ago, I was gifted two decks of cards (used in Nonviolent Communication, aka NVC, to identify feelings and needs), and I successfully integrated them into my healing sessions with my clients. I redesigned the cards to better suit my clients and added two additional decks to support my work.
The collection works symbiotically to provide multiple entry points into the variety of issues your clients present:
- These cards help people distinguish between a bodily sensation, an emotion, and a need. The strategy cards specifically offer concise, specific, and doable actions.
- An important feature is that the background color of each deck is distinct, so the client can easily see them and reflect without getting confused.
- The words are intentionally written so that both client and therapist can read them. Words are on each end and on the sides. This ‘mirrored’ design makes collaborative healing activities between client and therapist, couples, or pairs within a group setting easy to coordinate and fun to do.
- The kinesthetic action of flipping the playing cards draws people in, and they more easily respond to the word on the card than they could initiate voicing it.
- In sessions, my clients’ stories and memories will pour out after resonating with one of the cards.
- I have used these cards with couples, and they are amazed to learn what their spouse has been feeling, yet are unable to articulate it until they see it on a card. They are more open to feeling, more open to sharing, and ultimately, more open to healing.