60-card deck · clinically grounded · christ-centered

Give your
feelings a face.™

Sixty cards. Every emotion named, embodied, and held in Scripture — for the therapy room, the dinner table, and the quiet moments in between.

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60 monsters 180 scriptures 1 magnetic box
Havi, the brand mascot.

This is our mascot, Havi — short for Ahava אַהֲבָה, the Hebrew word for love, and the name of the river where Ezra and the Israelites paused to pray.

01 — The opening

You know the feeling.

Something is happening inside you and you can’t find the words for it. Not because you’re broken. Because no one ever gave you the language.

E-Motion Monsters were built to change that.

02 — The world these cards live in

Imagine your life
as a sea.

This is the world the cards live in. Each one is a passenger you’ve felt but maybe never named.

The storms are what happens to you. The boat is your body. The passengers — every emotion, every thought — wake in response to the storm and the swell.

You can’t keep the storms from coming. But you don’t have to let your passengers take the helm and steer the boat for you. And you don’t have to throw them overboard, either. Every one of them wakes with something to tell you.

Jesus is in the boat with you. Your values are the compass. Jesus is true north. Your oars are how you move.

And the shore — heaven, due east — is not so far that you can afford to miss the journey trying to get there.

hover the labels — or the diagram

03 — Anatomy of a card

Most emotion tools stop at the name.
These don’t.

The Disappointment monster card.
Disappointment
A feeling of sadness or displeasure when expectations or hopes are not met.

Where is it in the Bible?

Character Example: Samuel was disappointed in King Saul’s disobedience to God. [1 Samuel 15:35]

Christ-Centered Response: Hope does not disappoint, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts. [Romans 5:5]

General Scripture: Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life. [Proverbs 13:12]

Where is it in my body?

Disappointment is often felt as a sinking sensation in the chest and a heaviness in the shoulders.

example · card 24
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i
A name, and a clean clinical definition
Plain language for what you’re actually feeling. Not poetic, not vague. The word for it, and the boundary around it.
ii
Where it lives in your body
Feelings have addresses. Anxiety in the chest. Anger in the jaw. Grief in the whole body. The body sensation is part of the card.
iii
Three Scriptures, by role
A character example from someone in Scripture who felt this. A Christ-centered response. A general verse to sit with. Not a sermon — a holding place.
iv
A character who makes it approachable
A monster — fuzzy, big-eyed, specific — so the feeling has a face. Not a child’s toy. An on-ramp for adults who were never given the language.

Designed for adults who were never taught to name what they carry — and who are now raising, loving, and leading others who need that language too.

04 — Inside the deck
A fanned spread of three monster cards.
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printed deck
edition 01 · 2026

Sixty cards.
One language
for what you carry.

A full emotional vocabulary — from the familiar to the hard-to-name. Use the whole deck, or split it for focused work.

Each card holds a name, a clinical definition, a body sensation prompt, and three Scriptures.

Cards
60 full-color, matte-finish, built for repeated use
Range
From Joy and Grief to Invisible, Lament, and the anger family
Scripture
Three verses per card · 180 total, each tagged by role
Format
Sturdy magnetic gift box · suitable for clinical and home use
Price
$34.99 — app coming soon · join the waitlist →
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05 — Who they’re for

When grownups learn to speak emotion, kids follow.

01 · In the therapy room

A clinical tool, made by a clinician.

Open a session. Identify a pattern. Give a client language for what they have carried in silence. The deck can be used whole, halved for focused work, or quartered for younger clients.

used by LCMFTs, LPCs, LCSWs, and faith-based counselors

02 · At home

For dinner tables and the conversations you didn’t know how to start.

Parents pull the cards out after hard days. Couples reach for them when words run out. Kids learn the language adults around them are now able to speak.

recommended for ages 10+

03 · Personally

For quiet moments — journaling, prayer, the slow practice of telling yourself the truth.

Pull one. Sit with it. Read its Scripture. Notice where it lives in your body. Choose what you’ll do with it.

one card · sixty seconds · a daily practice

07 — Something more is coming

The cards in your pocket,
every day.

We’re building an app that turns the deck into a daily practice. A check-in. A values compass. A way to keep rowing when the storms come.

installable web app · launching 2026

The E-Motion Monsters app home screen — a quiet harbor with a boat and a Begin a check-in button.
preview · v1 home
08 — The clinician behind the cards
Emma Ward, LCMFT — Irish-born clinical therapist, speaker, and author based in Kansas.

Born in the therapy room.
For everyone outside of it.

E-Motion Monsters were created by Emma Ward, LCMFT — an Irish-born clinical therapist, speaker, and author based in Kansas. The deck began in real sessions, where a client couldn’t find the word for what they felt and needed something to point to.

The cards are one expression of a larger body of work — clinical, theological, and deeply practical — that lives at theahavaway.com.

Meet Emma →
09 — Closing

Give your
feelings a face.™

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$3.99 US shipping · 30-day return · suitable for clinical use

The E-Motion Monsters magnetic gift box, open to reveal the deck inside.