This book, along with the Key Collage deck of feeling cards, will help you learn how to find the places where you’ve stored your old emotions and begin actually feeling instead of just acting like you’re feeling your emotions.

In this book, you’ll write, collage, draw, color, and paint your way down a path that allows you to open your heart where your deepest emotions are waiting for you.

The emotions in this book are organized in alphabetical order, but that doesn’t mean you have to read the book in alphabetical order. You can read the book in any of the following ways or make up your own way:

• Read the emotions in the order that feels right to you today. 

• Open the book to a random page and read whichever emotion you see. 

• Pause and feel inside your body to find the emotion you’re feeling right now and read that emotion. 

• Identify the emotion you wish you were feeling more of and read that one. 

Then after you read about the emotion, answer the questions designed for that emotion. You can answer the questions in your head, but the impact is even more powerful if you write your answers in this book. 

If you don’t like writing or if writing isn’t safe for you, find pictures in a magazine or print pictures from the internet that show your answers to these questions. If you like to draw, get out your colored pencils or paints and sketch how you’re feeling. And no you don’t have to be an artist to express your feelings this way.

As with all inner exploration, the more time you spend finding your feelings with this book and accompanying card deck, the deeper and more meaningful your connection with your feelings will be.