Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language
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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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Peter Levine, PhD, author of Healing Trauma and Freedom from Pain
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New writing and updates from Karla
Embracing the healing genius of frozen panic
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
The lifesaving ingenuity of immediate panic
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
The social genius of envy
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
Welcoming the genius of jealousy
Jealousy (and its partner envy) needs a hearty welcome, because these two emotions are perhaps the most hated (and valenced) emotions in the entire emotional realm. This is a tragedy, because jealousy and envy are... Read More