Books, card decks, and creative practices for self-exploration, reflection, and everyday creativity
My books and creative resources are available at several places. You can find my books on Amazon, my Whole Health Card Deck on Etsy, and you can easily purchase digital PDFs directly from me through PayPal or Zelle. Purchase details are included with each resource below.
Digital Resources
10 Creative Tarot Practices for Self-Exploration
You don’t have to know how to “read” tarot to enjoy working with tarot cards! This collection offers 10 simple, playful practices for slowing down, noticing what catches your attention, and exploring your own ideas and imagination through imagery. Any imagery card can work whether that’s tarot, oracle, or even Dixit cards! Use the cards as a starting point for curiosity rather than something you have to interpret correctly. Each practice gives you a different way to look, play, make connections, and see what emerges.
$12 · Digital PDF
How to Purchase
1. Pay $12 via PayPal or Zelle. Click here to pay via PayPal /// To pay by Zelle: send $12 to tova.abelman@gmail.com
2. Email me to let me know you’ve purchased the PDF— tovadramatherapy@gmail.com
3. I’ll email your PDF within 24 hours.
Note: Because this is a digital product, all purchases are final and refunds are not available.
Books
Fragments: Collecting the Small & Hidden
What happens when you start paying attention to the little pieces of paper, images, words, and everyday ephemera that usually go unnoticed?
Fragments is a year-long creative practice centered around collecting and working with these small, often overlooked pieces of everyday life. Through simple prompts and invitations, you’ll explore what you find, what catches your attention, and what happens when you bring seemingly unrelated fragments together. This is a gentle, open-ended practice for anyone who enjoys collecting, collage, journaling, noticing, and finding meaning in the ordinary.
CardPlay: A Creative Process for Inner Discovery Through Image and Metaphor
What if an image could help you discover something you didn’t know you were looking for? CardPlay offers a creative, playful approach to self-exploration using cards, images, metaphor, imagination, and curiosity. Through a collection of structured practices, you’ll experiment with different ways of looking at and working with images including making connections, telling stories, noticing details, and discovering your own meanings along the way. You don’t need to be an artist, a writer, or a tarot reader…Just bring your curiosity and a willingness to play!
Pocket Portals: 30 Days of Micro-Journaling for Deep Personal Exploration
Sometimes a few words are enough to open a door…
Pocket Portals is a collection of 30 short journaling practices designed to lead you somewhere unexpected: to a memory, a question, an image, a feeling, or a new way of seeing yourself. Each portal offers a small invitation to pause, get curious, and explore what’s beneath the surface. You don’t need an hour, a perfect journal, or anything profound to say…Just a few minutes and a willingness to see where a small prompt might take you.
Untangled: A Transformative Weight Loss Workbook
If you’ve tried to lose weight before, you probably already know what to eat. The harder part is figuring out what happens when real life gets in the way. Drawing on drama therapy and creative self-exploration, Untangled takes you beyond tracking what you eat. Through writing, reflection, imagery, and other creative exercises, you’ll explore the thoughts, emotions, habits, and patterns that can make weight loss feel so difficult. Instead of giving you another set of rules to follow, this workbook invites you to get curious about your own experience and use that understanding to make changes that work for you.
Card Decks
Whole Health Card Deck: 50 Practices to Support Wellness & Wellbeing in Body, Mind, and Spirit
The Whole Health Card Deck offers 50 creative practices for exploring different dimensions of wellbeing from your body and emotions to your relationships, environment, creativity, and sense of meaning. Each card gives you something simple to try, notice, or reflect on, so you can discover what supports you and what you may need more of in your life. Use the cards on your own, pull one when you need a little inspiration, or return to practices that resonate with you. There’s no particular order and no “right” way to use the deck.