Redirect for Everyone: Rewrite Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTS) Card Activity

Unlock the Power of Positive Thinking with Blank Redirect Cards!

Break free from Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) and develop a growth mindset and meaning-making skills with Redirect Blank Flashcards, the ultimate tool for thought reframing. Designed to transform your personal negative thinking patterns - taking the particular words your negative thoughts use, and changing them to positive and grounded advice to yourself. In this unique deck, the cards are blank! You write your exact thought! This exercise of externalizing the precise, damaging words of YOUR thought helps them have less hold over you. In your head, they hold more power and energy, influencing your mood, beliefs, actions, and emotions. Use this mental wellness card deck to practice replacing intrusive thoughts with empowering beliefs, grounded understandings, and healing practices. This interactive card game is ideal for individuals, Women’s clubs, and therapy group activities. They are counselors' offices must-haves, make supportive gifts & are perfect for DBT therapy groups.

Once you write the negative thought, decide which ANT species it is.

The directions (see the QR code on the back of the deck) outline 9 distinct “species” of ANTs, helping players recognize, categorize, and prevent negative thoughts (e.g., “I’m a loser!”). This stops them from becoming a limiting belief, or worse, a negative self-identity. When you are in your head, you think you are the only one thinking this. Once you realize it's a common ANT, it’s easier to discard the thought as NOT TRUE. This helps you release the thoughts that hold you back, making it easier to reframe negative thoughts into positive affirmations. On the front of each card, write your automated negative thought to deconstruct, ask yourself; Is it true? How else can I see it? 

On the reverse side, try to rewrite that to something more reasonable and positive. This deck is for people who have other decks and now want to try on their own. This engaging process helps you gain emotional distance from negative beliefs, fostering mental clarity and cognitive flexibility.

Perfect for personal use or in group settings, the Redirect for Everyone Card Deck has blank cards. They are for users of other Redirect decks, who are ready to take matters into their own hands by addressing their particular negative thoughts. Redirect for Everyone is an excellent way to get perspective and regulate emotions. The card deck can be used in therapy sessions, classrooms, or as self-improvement exercises. Through regular practice, these cards help reduce the impact of negative thinking patterns, replacing them with constructive, positive thoughts. Therapists can get a deck and use a few cards for a client to take home for reminders on how else to think. Great as gifts too!

Key Benefits of Redirect Flashcards for Teens:

• Reframe negative thoughts into empowering beliefs
• Identify and deconstruct 9 types of ANTs
• Build a growth mindset and adaptive coping via personal or group use
• Ideal for therapy sessions, classrooms, and self-development
• Helps foster emotional resilience and lasting positive change

Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

Redirect hones thought-reframing skills, improving emotional wellness for classes, groups, families, and adults. 

• Fun to Play!
• Engages the Cognitive Mind
• Relatable to Modern Students & Adults
• For Individuals and Groups!

Why does this game make people feel good?

These positive-thinking cards are designed to help players learn how to create meaning that fosters a growth mindset. Research has shown that a growth mindset, rather than a fixed mindset, improves emotional well-being, success, and one’s self-image.

🔄 Reframe Negative Thoughts for a Positive Mindset: Break free from Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs) by using our Redirect Flashcards as a personal development, mental health therapy, or social emotional learning activity (SEL). Learn to reframe these thoughts into empowering beliefs, helping you achieve mental clarity and emotional resilience. Perfect for developing tools and emotions for a positive outlook!

👥 Ideal Growth Mindset Item for Personal & Group Settings: Designed for personal reflection, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) therapy sessions, group therapy, and emotional Learning (SEL) classroom activities and discussions. These cards make learning negative thought-reframing techniques interactive, fun, and impactful for individuals and teams.

💡 Achieve Lasting Positive Change: With regular use, Redirect Flashcards help reduce the impact of negative thinking patterns, promoting a calmer, more positive mindset. Ideal for long-term personal growth, emotional health, and improved mental well-being.