Archive for the ‘ Emotional Hygiene ’ Category

Stress is a weasel word — and maybe that’s good!

May 15th, 2012

In The Language of Emotions, I talk about stress as a “weasel* word,” or a word that people use to hide emotional awareness from themselves. In one of the final chapters in my book, Stress and Resistance: Understanding Emotional Physics, we look at stress after we’ve learned about each of the emotions in depth —Shiver me timbers →

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Is it a Feeling or is it an Emotion? Revisited!

March 2nd, 2012

We’ve all seen it. Something is said or written, and someone will go off. I mean off. Rage, hatred, or both at once.  A fight starts, and maybe these intense emotions get handled between two people, or maybe they don’t (online interactions specialize in the maybe they don’t category). So the raging people invite alliesShiver me timbers →

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Our online course is here: Emotional Flow!

January 27th, 2012

It’s here! Our online course is here! I’m excited to announce a brand new way to increase your emotional skills: The 8-session online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions. Your emotions are absolutely essential to every aspect of your intelligence and perception—yet few of us were ever taught how to workShiver me timbers →

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Empaths in Winter Wonderland!

January 19th, 2012

Let’s Get Emotional! Embracing Your Empathic Genius Sunday, February 12th thru Friday, February 17th, 2012 with Karla McLaren at Kripalu Retreat Center in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts! People are always telling us not to get emotional, but did you know that your emotions bring you the gifts of intuition, clarity, decisiveness, the capacity toShiver me timbers →

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We can only talk if you can be emotional!

September 15th, 2011

So I’m leaving the YMCA after my swim yesterday morning, and I overhear an older couple having an argument. I don’t know what preceded this statement, but the man snapped at his wife, “We can’t talk if you’re going to be emotional about it!” “Hah!” I said in my head as I walked past them,Shiver me timbers →

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