A living map of your emotional world— simple enough to use the moment you see it.
A house with five floors, each representing a different emotional state of mind.
And a spiral staircase that spins.
Identify where you are. Use straightforward tools to stop spiralling and move to a better place.
Simple language. No medical labels. Easy visual concepts.
Imagine a living map of your emotions.
For many of us, one emotion follows another.
We don’t know what we’ll feel next or when.
It is easy to feel lost and overwhelmed.
Here is a map to guide you.
The House Within is a map of your emotional world.
Find what floor you are on.
Learn how to change floors.
Understand why we spiral up and down emotionally.
Learn how to stop spiralling.
Make progress towards meaning and purpose.
A House with 5 Floors — A Simple Map
Inside your emotional world, there is a house. Your House Within.
It has 5 floors — Attic, Upstairs, Ground Floor, Basement, and Cellar. Each one is a different state of mind, with different feelings, different thoughts, different reactions, and a completely different view of the world.
Everyone has all 5 floors. Every single one of us.
A spiral staircase connects them all. When we move between floors, the staircase spins — we spiral up and down emotionally.
The House Within gives you a way to locate which floor you are on right now, and simple tools to move to a different one when you need to.
Look inside.
Can you see your House Within? Can you see your Attic, Upstairs, Ground Floor, Basement, and Cellar?
Can you feel your staircase spin higher and faster as you spiral up into the Upstairs and Attic? Slower and lower as you spiral down into the Basement and Cellar?
This is a moving map.
A living map of your emotional world.
“Grounded in science, and thirty years of clinical practice.”
The House Within
The House Within is a living map to help you understand and manage your emotions in a whole new way. Learn new, simple, effective tools and techniques to help you change your state of mind — in the present moment, just in yourself, and in your relationships, when you want to.
Developed in collaboration with many clients over 30 years of clinical practice.
Your state of mind is your most valuable possession
- and the only thing in life you can truly control.
— Pauline Pearson
Individual Counselling Sessions
I offer a limited number of individual sessions for people who want to work with the framework directly. Zoom and phone sessions available