This tiny shopping cart can hold much more than just pretend groceries. In the world of sandtray therapy, it becomes a vessel for exploring needs, choices, responsibilities, and emotional “baggage.” Clients may use it to gather what they feel they need—love, safety, power—or to show what they’re burdened with. It can represent nourishment or neglect, consumerism or caregiving, freedom or overwhelm. Whether it’s pushed with purpose or abandoned in the corner, this cart gives insight into what a person is carrying—physically, emotionally, or symbolically—in their world.
