Unfuck Your Tarot: Using the Cards for Growth and Overcoming Trauma

Become the architect of your own story with this science-informed approach to using the tarot for intimate revelations and personal change. Starting with Carl Jung’s enthusiasm for tarot’s archetypal power up through contemporary usage as a way to explore symbols and imagery in therapeutic settings, bestselling author Dr. Faith G. Harper lays out helpful basics about the tarot and its connections to therapy work, alongside activities, prompts, and questions to consider in your own journey toward personal development and healing. In this guide, you’ll learn to use the cards proactively--rather than waiting for their meaning to be revealed--allowing you to see yourself, your circumstances, and your cards with new eyes. Never one to leave you hanging, Dr. Faith also offers support to continue your therapeutic tarot explorations beyond this zine, including detailed suggestions for further reading. So shuffle your deck and crack open these pages to begin a fresh, symbolic approach to your inner work. Who says knowing yourself is supposed to be rational, anyway?

Dr. Faith G. Harper, ACS, ACN, holds postdoctoral certifications in sexology and applied clinical nutrition and is trained in yoga, meditation, breathwork, mindful movement, and all of those other forms of care that make most people avoid her at parties. In the past, she has worked in academia, community mental health, and private practice as a licensed professional counselor. She maintains a connection with academia through her work with the Society of Indian Psychologists. She lives in San Antonio, TX, with her amazing friends and family and terrible rescue cats. She can be reached through her website, faithgharper.com. Subscribe to the Unfuck Your Brain newsletter to get a discount on her books and zines.