Can you help? Can you help me? Can you help?

Somebody! Can you help?

Somebody! Can you help? Can you help? Can you help?

So helpless!

Can you help?

Can you help?

Can you help?

Can you help?

So helpless! Can you know? So, helpless.

Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the self-helpless podcast.

I'm Delaney Fisher and we have such a fun guest today.

Lucy Sherman is here and Lucy is a EMDR therapist and she uses all these different

like creative modalities and her therapy practice collage oracle decks

art magazines books all this really cool stuff she also is the host of the Therapy Magic Podcast

and owns her own practice based in Portland.

And today, Lucy is guiding me through

some of the exercises that she uses with Oracle decks

for herself in her own kind of self-care rituals, but also with her clients to help them talk about and process and heal different traumas and all of that. So this was so much fun. I also like got really deep. I didn't realize how deep you could really get with Oracle cards and using them as different prompts and all of that.

I love Oracle decks. I've been using them for years now. I really like them.

They've become kind of a tool for me to use for meditation in a way where I have a really hard time just sitting down for 20 minutes to journal or meditate or whatever like I just never actually do it but I get it I get so

excited to pull an oracle card and then 20 30 40 minutes sometimes goes by after and I have meditated, I've journaled, I've read, I've done like breathing exercises, I've reflected on things, I've planned things, and to me it's just such a fun way to do all of that because yeah, I just I guess I need kind of like a mindset hack in order to get me to kind of like take a pause from my day and reflect, but I can't really do it the other way around. I can't just tell myself, okay, now journal for 20 minutes. So if you are like that, then and you haven't tried an Oracle deck before, this might be a really great time to try that if you're kind of resonating with any of that. So I love it. I think pulling an oracle card is such a fun way to kind of infuse like ordinary kind of magic or everyday magic into your day because there's kind of this uncertainty and excitement about what card you're going to pull or pick. It's usually has like some beautiful art on it, which is really fun to look at and there's a guide book often that goes with it so you can kind of read about the card. And I just like to think about the artist and whoever created this this card deck. It's just like that you know they can be such small cards into a small box, but it's-packed full of creativity.

And I think if you want to get a little woo-woo about that,

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