The movement of self-help therapeutic techniques in the home are not new to this modern era. Wherein the ratio of mental health professionals to every mental health case is almost 1 to every 100,000 in the Philippines, access to health care and strategies for self-care are few and far between. The COVID-19 Pandemic proved that mental health care and access is today a basic human need. But what do we do when there aren’t enough professionals to talk to?
My Soul Brief-Case: A Card Deck to Help Unravel the Inner Journey was developed by Healing Minds PH in collaboration with Collabox.co with one clear intention - to make healing accessible to as many people as possible.
How do the cards work?
My Soul Brief-Case has 50 cards with 4 different colors. Each color is meant to help guide you through a challenge or issue that you may be facing.
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Green cards (10) are sentence prompts or questions that help you identify what’s going on
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Yellow cards (20) help you unpack what’s truly in your heart
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Red cards (10) are meant to help close the process and move you towards planning or action.
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Blue cards (10) contain images that can be used flexibly and are best interpreted by the imagination.
The cards use sentence prompts and questions taken from therapeutic techniques such as Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Choice Theory / Reality Therapy, and Gestalt Theory.
Why Use a Card Deck?
Think of it this way, if this was a book, it would confine you to doing things chapter after chapter. But with a card deck, you can shuffle, re-arrange, and approach your challenge in more than 100 different ways. In fact, the exact permutation is at 5 million different ways to combine these cards and derive insight.
For those of you who dabble in angel / oracle card readings, or even tarot decks, you may enjoy combining these with My Soul Brief-Case prompts to help you process what is going on.
We do recommend, however, that you focus on one situation / challenge at any given time. You can pull as many cards as you like, for as long as you stick to the issue.
Does this mean I don’t need to see a professional?
NO. These cards are not meant to replace therapy. In fact, if you are seeing a therapist, you can use these cards in between sessions to derive insight. You can also introduce these cards to your therapist and work on the insight together.
Self-help therapy cards are meant to help guide us on whatever we are going through wherever we might be. If we need further assistance in sorting through the problem, then we highly recommend that you visit our mental health directory:
Who can use these cards?
We recommend these cards to adults age 19 and above. For teenagers age 15 - 18, or below, it is highly recommended that these are used with adult supervision.
Anybody who wishes to dig deep and seek insight into what they are facing can use these cards regularly. Whether you are facing challenges in identity, relationships at work, in the home, or romantically, the roles you play, and facing things beyond your control, My Soul Brief-Case can be here for you.
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We are now open for ORDERS!
Click here to purchase your own deck for Php 1,200.00.
For advocacy collaborations, send us a message through mysoulcollabs@gmail.com