Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language

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Author and researcher Karla McLaren. M.Ed. is an emotions and empathy expert, and she's the developer of the EmpathyAcademy.org learning site, where you can develop robust emotional skills and healthy empathy in a welcoming online community.

Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration^® (or DEI), is taught at Empathy Academy, and you can find licensed DEI Professionals all over the world.

Emotions have the power to make or break your workplace!

We've been told that emotions don't belong in the workplace, but nothing could be further from the truth. Emotions do not create workplace problems; they contain the exact genius you need to solve those problems.

The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace will help you learn how to access the brilliant information in emotions to create a healthy and truly workable workplace.

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

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

30 Mar 2023

Embracing the healing genius of frozen panic

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In the 2023 update of The Language of Emotions, I separated panic into two categories: immediate panic and frozen panic. It’s so important to understand the difference between them, because many people don’t know that... Read More

28 Mar 2023

The lifesaving ingenuity of immediate panic

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Panic is an essential survival emotion that arises in response to a direct threat to your physical life. Panic is related to fear, but while fear is an instinctual and intuitive emotion that arises in... Read More

23 Mar 2023

The social genius of envy

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Envy (and its partner jealousy) are treated badly in general, but envy is actually listed as one of the seven deadly sins in the Catholic tradition. We could say that the early Catholics meant to... Read More

Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language

Emotions have the power to make or break your workplace!

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Embracing the healing genius of frozen panic

The lifesaving ingenuity of immediate panic

The social genius of envy

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