If you've heard this at your table - read on.
Dinner. Eyes on the fork. You ask - ‘fine’. You ask again - ‘nothing’.
I was there. Not twenty years ago - recently. With a child who could not name what was inside, and a mother who could not find the word either. I found a simple way in: 50 cards with animals who feel everything my child feels. Instead of ‘how are you feeling?’ I ask ‘look at this raccoon - what do you think he feels?’. And the child answers. About the raccoon. Which is about them. Safely. No pressure. The door opens on its own.
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A child says ‘fine’ not because they're hiding - but because they don't have the word yet. We teach them the alphabet, times tables, the names of planets. But no one sat them down and said: ‘this is what jealousy looks like. This is exhaustion. This is what it feels like when you need someone close.’ And without those words, the feeling stays stuck. And so does the conversation between you.
50 ANIMALS. 50 EMOTIONS. 50 CARDS YOUR CHILD WILL KNOW AND FEEL.
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A look inside
Joy. Fear. Love. Loneliness. Courage. Five animals your child will recognise from their own week.
...and 45 more emotions inside. Envy, shame, longing, gratitude, missing - words your child does not yet have.
Why this matters
Not a ‘your life will transform’ promise. Three quiet, specific shifts - the ones that matter ten years from now.
A feeling without a name comes out through behaviour: slammed doors, tears, the silent treatment, meltdowns in the shop. A child who can say ‘I feel like the raccoon who got left out today’ doesn't need to throw a cup. The Harvard Center on the Developing Child calls this emotional regulation - and it predicts how they'll handle their first breakup, their first bad boss, their first real loss. You're not buying cards. You're building that.
No card guarantees how a teenager will turn out - life is more complicated than that. But every small conversation where you ask ‘what do you think the turtle is feeling?’ and listen without judgement is one quiet brick in the wall of safety. Over years, those bricks add up. Not as a guarantee, as a practice.
After a few weeks, the child starts on their own: ‘today I felt like the giraffe’ - and you know exactly what they mean. No more prying, no more ‘what's wrong?’. You have a language just between you two - one that works at age seven, at fifteen, at twenty-five. The kind of closeness that doesn't disappear when they grow up - because it was built in the words.
Four familiar scenes
Three hours to grandma's. Headphones on. Silence.
You're driving. Kids in the back, tablets up. You point at a field of cows - no reaction. You used to talk the whole way. Now the car feels like three separate rooms. The cards fit in the door pocket. Pull one out: ‘look at this cheetah - what do you think he's tired of?’ And the headphones come off.
The child came home different. Won't say why.
Something happened at school. You can see it on the face. ‘What's wrong?’ - ‘nothing’. ‘Did someone say something?’ - shoulder shrug. You don't want to push and you don't want to leave it. So you don't ask anything - you pick the lonely turtle card and put it down. ‘Why do you think he's sitting alone?’ Five minutes later, you're not talking about the turtle anymore.
Weekend with the grandchild. ‘How's life?’ - ‘fine’.
You love them. You've got two days, and you want them to remember this - not as ‘the weekend at grandparents' where we watched TV’. One card on the kitchen table between you. You don't have to be clever. You just ask what the bear in the window feels. And your grandchild, who usually says ‘nothing’ to everything, starts talking. About something real.
You notice the quiet ones in your classroom
Four kids sit too still. Something at home, something they won't say. You can't interrogate - but you can lay 50 cards on a table and let them pick the one that feels like today. Then you know where to start. Homeroom teachers, school counsellors, family therapists have been asking for a tool like this for years.
The adults I meet in my work - the ones who explode at their partner, who go silent for days, who can't say what they want from life - they were once children who weren't taught the words. That's all it is. They feel everything. They just don't have the names. And what has no name has no way out. My wish is that your child grows up differently. Fifty words is enough to start.
- Jolita, creator of Oria Soul
A real example
You see a bear staring out the window. The sky outside is grey.
‘What do you think he feels?’ - you ask. Not ‘how do you feel’. About the bear.
‘He's sad. Because no one came over.’ That's your child's story, told through a bear.
‘Have you ever felt like him?’ A nod. And now they're telling you. No interrogation. Just a door that opened.
Where they live in your day
‘Look at this squirrel - he's sharing his last nut. Would you share your last sweet?’ Two hours of conversation, no tablet. They're the ones who ask for the next card.
Lights low. The day is done, defences are down. One card - and what they couldn't say at dinner comes out now, quietly, next to you. Three months in, you'll both look forward to this minute more than any other in the day.
Everyone pulls one. ‘Today I was the cheetah - exhausted.’ ‘I was the otter - I played with my friend all recess.’ Fifteen minutes of real news from each other's lives, instead of fifteen minutes of scrolling.
After a bad day at school. After the fight with the sibling. The kind of moment when you know pushing will shut them down further. One card laid between you - no question asked - and they pick it up on their own.
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One payment - the 50 cards stay with your family.
On your phone, tonight
One tap opens a card. Another tap flips it. Works on any phone - at dinner, in the car, before bed.
Before you decide
I hear you. Let me count honestly with you: €7.99 is roughly one family coffee stop or one kids’ meal. The difference is that this is not something you eat in ten minutes - it is a quiet helper that stays with your family for years, at dinner, in the car, before sleep. No subscription. One payment. If today is simply not the right day - that is completely okay. Stay nearby, and maybe something shifts next month.
Works from around age 3. The youngest simply look at the animal and point. Ages 5-10 love the questions. Teenagers start pulling cards on their own - it lets them talk without having to start the conversation. Adults? Many buy it for their kids and keep playing after the kids have gone to bed.
Honestly - I was the same. I used to think I had to invent something clever to reach my child. Then I learned: you do not invent anything. Every card has a question written on it. ‘What do you think this raccoon is feeling?’ is the only line you read. The card carries the work. Your child does the talking. You simply listen - and that is enough.
It is not an app. No download, no account, no notifications. You open a link, it works right away on the browser you already have. Works in the car without signal. Nothing to install, nothing to forget the password for.
Honest answer: try one card tonight before you fall asleep. Pull a card, ask the question, listen for thirty seconds. If nothing softens - the cards stay on the shelf, no harm done. The cost is less than a coffee. The risk of trying once is small.
Less than one takeaway coffee
No subscription. Yours forever. Use it for years.
Can you already see yourself pulling one card at dinner tonight - and hearing what your child actually answers? If that picture feels real - it is.
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The piece I almost did not tell you about
The cards open the conversation - thought, word, question. The oils open the body - scent, sensation, settling. Together they make a full conversation. Mind and body, in the same minute. I did not invent this combination. I lived it.
I have been with Young Living since 2018. My girls grew up with Pelėdžiukas - the Little Oilers Kit, with the gentle owl on the diffuser - one drop on the corner of the pillow before sleep, a soft scent in the room when something hurt. Now they are eleven and thirteen. Pelėdžiukas does not fit a thirteen-year-old anymore. So we moved on - to the Feelings Kit. And the cards came in alongside. That is why I am not separating these two parts of my home. They were never separate.
- Jolita
The cards are enough on their own. Truly. But the oils are how I lived this with my own children - and I would not feel honest leaving that out.
If you want to go further than the cards
Pelėdžiukas - for the little hands and bedtime stories. Feelings - for the deeper waters of adolescence, and for me, walking alongside them.
For little ones · 3 to 10
The cards introduce the feelings. The oils help the small body settle and receive.
DreamEase on the corner of the pillow when sleep does not come. Refresh on a school morning. TummyGize after lunch when something is restless inside. KidCare before they go outside. GeneYus when homework will not sit still.
For teenagers · 11 to 17
My daughters are eleven and thirteen now. The cards open the moment - a way in, when teens will not start the conversation themselves. The Feelings Kit (six oils: Valor, Harmony, Forgiveness, Release, Present Time, Inner Child) carries the deeper work. These are the three I reach for almost weekly:
Forgiveness
After a strong fight between the sisters - I diffuse it in the room, because in that moment there is so much emotion that no one wants to be touched. The scent works first. Contact comes later, when the heart has softened.
Valor
Before tests, big checks, first tries, and when she just wants a little support with a sense of inner calm. Also Valor for sleep - it both strengthens and quiets. A rare combination, but Valor has it.
Inner Child
When she gets stuck in problems and forgets that life can also be lighter and prettier. When you look through the relaxed eyes of a child again, you start to see wonders, possibilities, joy. And when that happens, gratitude shows up on its own.
Oils are not magic. Not a fix - a companion. Not a solution - a bridge to understanding yourself. After a week, subtle shifts. After a month of steady use, more. The cards alone are enough if today that is what fits.
+ For Families With Small Children
Pelėdžiukas (Little Oilers Kit) is designed for children ages 2 and up.
The cards open the conversation. Little Oilers gives that conversation a body - 5 oils safe for children, each for a real moment: bedtime, school morning, a restless tummy, a day outside, homework that won't sit still.
When it's hard for the child to fall asleep. One drop on the corner of the pillow, or into the diffuser before bedtime.
For school mornings, or when tiredness settles in. A gentle lift without the sugar.
When something feels unsettled in the tummy. Rub clockwise after lunch.
Everyday care for the child's skin - applied before stepping outside.
When it's hard to settle into homework. The scent helps the mind gather itself.
+ Feather the Owl diffuser (gentle, with soothing white noise) and the AromaGlide roller for easy application.
With Little Oilers comes my consulting, support and companionship. When a question arises (which oil for which child, how often, is it safe with...) - write to me. I'll reply. Not a structured programme - a steady presence whenever you need it.
€157.29
(with gifts worth €247.52 - 5 oils + Feather the Owl diffuser + AromaGlide roller + Product Guide)
Learn about Little OilersPersonal Young Living registration walkthrough - see the full Feelings page.
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