The Happiness Trap Cards

About The Happiness Trap Cards

Based on the best-selling self-help classic about escaping the “happiness trap,” this card deck features 50 Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)-based prompts, practices, and reflections.

Free yourself from depression, anxiety, and insecurity, and build a rich and meaningful life.

​This easy-to-use deck version of The Happiness Trap, Russ Harris’s million-copy bestseller, brings the potent, empowering insights and techniques of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) into your daily life in a fresh way.    

​Each card provides a useful tool, technique, suggestion, or strategy to unlock the secrets to a truly fulfilling life. Techniques and practices include “Thanking Your Mind,” “Dropping Anchor,” and “Noticing and Naming,” among many others. Themes include:

• Handling painful thoughts and feelings more effectively
• Breaking self-defeating habits

• Building better relationships
• Improving performance and finding fulfillment at work
• Building self-compassion
• Dealing with loneliness and loss