Heart Series: Red Heart

Red Heart – Sandtray Miniature

This piece from our Heart Series holds deep symbolic potential in sandtray therapy. Hearts often serve as containers for the emotions, memories, and experiences that shape a client’s inner world. The red heart, in particular, can embody intensity—whether warmth, passion, hurt, or longing.

This miniature can represent a wide spectrum of emotional themes depending on the individual using it. Clients may choose it to symbolize love, connection, hope, belonging, and emotional courage. Others may use it to reflect loss, grief, trauma, heartbreak, betrayal, guardedness, or emotional emptiness. Red can also speak to anger, intensity, or the rawness of unhealed wounds.

In the sandtray, this heart invites exploration of:

• Relationships: attachment, bonding, breakups, reconciliation, or boundary violations

• Identity: self-worth, emotional openness vs. protection, vulnerability, or feeling “too much”

• Loss & Grief: longing, remembrance, honoring someone loved, or pain that feels hard to hold

• Healing: reclaiming love, mending what was broken, rediscovering safety, or choosing connection

Whether it reflects tenderness or turmoil, this red heart gives clients a powerful symbol to express the complexities of their emotional lives.

Approximate size: 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches
Material: 3D printed