Emotions and Empathy Are Your Natural Language

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Empathy pioneer, author, and researcher Karla McLaren. M.Ed. is pleased to announce her newest book, The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace which will be released on August 3rd, 2021!

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.

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

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

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 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’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

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

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

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

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

Philip Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University

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