About the Cards:

These cards arose during a season of change in my life after I left a full-time job that was suffocating my spirit. The moment I walked out of the door on my last day, I noticed the sunlight on my skin and breathed the fresh, mid-day air, and felt my spirit coming to life again. The very next morning, the “Heart-Mind Healing Oracle” was born.

I’ve always been very image oriented as a writer, teacher, and therapist and this deck gave me a vehicle for getting these images out of my body and into the world where they could be shared with others in a meaningful way. Each one was created with an attitude of mindfulness, somatic awareness, and curiosity, and as a meditation practice. I made each card from a blank canvas by collaging images gathered using the web app, Canva. While a few of the images were built using generative AI components or stock artwork, the graphic design is one-of-a-kind and original work of my own creation.

As they evolved, the cards started to take on a life of their own and became a gateway to ancestral wisdom, collective consciousness, and the shared human experience. Each message sent me on a journey simultaneously within myself and through the image libraries where I scavenged for the parts needed to create the vision in my mind’s eye. Along the way, I’d glimpse other striking images that seemed to insist “we belong here, too.” I opened myself to receiving what wanted to move through me, and pieced parts together, and the image would shift and change until suddenly it would crystalize, and I could see where it needed stars, or ripples, or gold, or glowing light. I knew each card was done when it would finally “speak to me” and the guidance would bubble to the surface from that deep wellspring of subconscious, heart-mind knowing.

So, perhaps you can think of each card as a type of “heart-mind-soul collage.” My hope is that I have allowed the guidance that is most needed in these times to be available to you through these cards, wherever you are on your journey. After all, we could all use a little more Heart-Mind Healing.

May they speak you, no matter how broken-hearted, lonely, or lost you are, and offer you the reminders you need, that you belong here, so that you can give yourself the welcoming you deserve.