ANCHORED - A Deck for Healing

"ANCHORED is a deck that began as I started my own healing journey from a lifetime of complex trauma and a newly emerging chronic illness. 

In 2017, I was overcome by chronic pain, fatigue, and dissociation. I felt completely unmoored from myself. I couldn't write, but I knew I needed to channel what was happening to me through art. So I returned to my teenage love of collage, and began to create oracle cards. Overtime, I came to see that each card represented something that I needed along my healing journey. Creating this deck served as an anchor in turbulent waters, and I continued to add to it over many years, as my own healing processed and unfolded.

Five years later, I'd finished 75 cards and the project felt complete to me. But then I began to consider how ANCHORED might help others as it had helped me, and began writing the guidebook. I know that therapy is not accessible to everyone, which is why I wanted to bring this deck into the world. I also wanted to help folks feel connected. It can so often feel like our healing happens in isolation. 

What is ANCHORED: a deck for healing?

ANCHORED is a deck of 75 oracle cards, each serving as... you guessed it... their own anchor. You can pick up this deck in moments where your nervous system is dysregulated and ask the deck for the anchor you need. It can also support you in other hard moments in life: before a job interview or a first date, after you’ve spent the day with your family, after a hard conversation with a loved one. You can also start your day by pulling a card and let that anchor guide you. 

You can also use it to learn more about trauma and different practices for healing. The accompanying guidebook is 200 pages, and is written from a trauma-informed, social-justice perspective. Because trauma and healing are not just personal issues, but political ones. We cannot heal ourselves if we do not also heal the world that we live in.

The guidebook includes some psychoeducation about each card's meaning and its significance within our healing, as well as a practice, an invitation to deepen into the anchor, embody it, and integrate it. These practices include journal prompts, somatic tools, visualizations, rituals, art prompts, and questions. 

There are also 6 different card spreads you can use for inspiration, each centered around a topic related to healing, from reparenting our inner little ones to letting go and letting in, as well as a bibliography and recommended reading list for those who want to nerd out and learn more.

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It’s important to note that I’m not a therapist or clinician. I’m a human being living with trauma, who has done a lot of training and research in trauma healing (you can learn more by clicking my “about” page). As someone working in the field of peer-to-peer trauma healing, I try to carefully acknowledge where I am out of my own depth and scope of learning and practice. I have not offered practices here that I wouldn’t share with loved ones."

--Margeaux Feldman (they/them), softcore trauma 

Product Details

1. 75 cards printed on 350gsm matte art paper

2. Matchbox-style slideout box with ribbon pull tab

3. 200-page guidebook

4. Package weight: ~1.5 lbs