Blob Visual Emotional Thesaurus

Ian Long has been a youth worker, a primary school teacher and an assistant pastor. Currently, his main role is as a carer. This book, therefore, has been produced in spaces throughout the day. He first developed visual books with Pip Wilson, the trainer / youth worker / ideas man / beautiful human person, when we created the Blob Tree image together in the 1980s. It was to help all types of people to express their feelings, no matter what age they were or country they were from. The Blobs in these images have no gender or age. They express feelings common to us all . Pip describes them as signals . He says that feelings are not good or bad, just signs for us to understand. When we are young we often see feelings as instructions. As we get older we choose which feelings to respond to. It is my desire that this book enables future generations to become more emotionally literate.

• How to use this book, Ranges of feelings, Sad feelings, Angry feelings, Dispirited to obsessed feelings, Positive feelings, Rejection feelings, Scared feelings, Close feelings, Individual feeling words, Opposite pairs of feelings