Description

Each of the 75 cards in this deck serve as 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, before 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.

Once you’ve pulled a card – or used one of the spreads included in the guidebook – you can open the guidebook and learn more about each card’s meaning, written from a trauma-informed, social-justice perspective.

Each card also includes a practice, an invitation to deepen into the anchor, embody it, and integrate it.

Anchored is a deck that began as I started my own healing journey from complex trauma and chronic illness. I felt completely unmoored from myself, and this deck served as an anchor in turbulent waters. Within the world of trauma healing, there’s a lot of emphasis on the practice of grounding. On a literal level, grounding is when we move out of states of nervous system activation – fight, flight, freeze, submit – by feeling the ground underneath us; on a metaphorical level, grounding is feeling calm and rooted. In my experience, grounding has felt totally inaccessible at times. Perhaps because there is no earth in my astrology chart. Perhaps because I’ve always felt my calmest when I’m in or near water. I needed different language, and so I came to the word “anchor.”

Contents

• 75 cards printed on 350gsm matte art paper
• Matchbox-style slideout box with ribbon pull tab
• 180-page guidebook