The genius of Karla McLaren’s Language of Emotions Workbook can be summed up by three sentences in her introduction: ‘Your emotions don’t create problems. They arise to help you deal with problems. Learn their language, and you can change your life.’ Without a doubt, this is THE workbook for better mental health, relationships that flourish, and overall life success and satisfaction.

Anita Nowak, PhD, author of Purposeful Empathy

The beauty of this Language of Emotions Workbook is how it orients you back to yourself, with questions and exercises designed to help you meet yourself with more understanding and acceptance.Karla McLaren reminds us that emotions exist because we need them, and that if we learn their language, we can revolutionize our emotional intelligence and transform our relationships. 

Michael T. McRay, author of I Am Not Your Enemy

Accessing the wisdom of our emotions is key to understanding ourselves and making better decisions. This brilliant Language of Emotions Workbook offers readers a set of easy-to-follow practices to help them receive the precious gifts and skills in their emotions.

Vered Kogan, host of The Mindset Game and CEO of the Momentum Institute

Emotional awareness can be your biggest superpower. In The Language of Emotions Workbook, Karla McLaren offers powerful exercises that will help you understand your emotions and tap into their wisdom. With Karla as your guide, you’ll dig deep and explore your own endlessly fascinating inner world.

Debbie Sorenson, PhD, author of ACT for Burnout

Karla’s knowledge of how to understand emotions and engage with them in a positive and healing way is an invaluable resource.

Janja Lalich, PhD, author of Take Back Your Life and Bounded Choice

There is no doubt that Karla McLaren’s passion to help her readers understand emotions, and provide them with useful tools to do so, makes this new edition of The Language of Emotions a gift for those who are suffering from or grappling with what they feel.

Mary Lamia, PhD, author of Grief Isn’t Something to Get Over and Understanding Myself

THE POWER OF EMOTIONS AT WORK speaks truth to the reality that so much of work is actually emotional work. This wonderful, insightful, and practical book will help you create teams that work better together and make better work.

Charlie Gilkey, author of Start Finishing

Karla McLaren’s breakthrough approach provides the missing link for those who want to finally get off the merry-go-round of anxiety, shame, and self-judgment. Embracing Anxiety has become a permanent fixture in my tool box.

Dr. Samantha Brody, author of Overcoming Overwhelm

Embracing Anxiety is a kind and empathetic, practical and reality-based approach to managing emotions, useful for anyone and everyone.

Mark Bertin, MD, author of How Children Thrive

Escaping Utopia: This accessible and nuanced account of a controversial subject will be the standard reference on its subject for many years to come.

Benjamin Zablocki, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University

Escaping Utopia is a must read book for everyone concerned about the real nature of human nature..

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

The Language of Emotions has changed the way I relate to others, and to myself, forever.

Gavin DeBecker, author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift

Karla McLaren is an emotional genius; she is the perfect guide to lead us through the complexities of emotions, and right into the heart of compassion.

Michael Meade, author of The Water of Life and The Genius Myth

In The Art of Empathy, Karla McLaren brilliantly illuminates the rich, textured landscape of emotional intelligence and the most important glue holding together all relationships — empathy.

Peter Levine, PhD, author of Healing Trauma and Freedom from Pain