Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language
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Karla is also the developer of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org, 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 licensed DEI professionals are available all over the world. You can find a licensed DEI professional here.
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Peter Levine, PhD, author of Healing Trauma and Freedom from Pain
Michael Meade, author of The Water of Life and The Genius Myth
Mark Bertin, MD, author of How Children Thrive

Gavin DeBecker, author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift
Dr. Samantha Brody, author of Overcoming Overwhelm
Charlie Gilkey, author of Start Finishing
Benjamin Zablocki, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Janja Lalich, PhD, author of Take Back Your Life and Bounded Choice
Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University
Mary Lamia, PhD, author of Grief Isn’t Something to Get Over and Understanding Myself
The Emotion Cards
These 24 Language of Emotions Cards will help you increase your emotional awareness and empathic skills, anytime and anywhere!The DEI Workbook
This Dynamic Emotional Integration® Workbook explores your 17 essential emotions and the skills and practices that will help you understand them - and work with them brilliantly.The Empathy Cards
These 28 Art of Empathy Cards offer detailed insights into the skills and practices that will help you develop healthy and emotionally intelligent empathy.The Language of Emotions
The Language of Emotions helps you work with all of your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom in healthy ways.
Emotional Vocabulary List
A strong emotional vocabulary doesn’t simply help you identify more emotions – it also helps you work with them more easily and more skillfully. This portable Emotional Vocabulary List will help you develop emotional awareness and skills!