We strive to be Happy but we have these darn negative emotions in our lives. Some of us try to run from them via food, alcohol/drugs, sex, work, or exercise.
Have you ever thought your feelings were a messenger here to tell you something important?
Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions revalues even the most negative emotions, and opens startling new pathways into the depths of the soul. She is the author of The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (2010).
Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, and the Omega Institute.
Karla is here to discuss what your feelings are trying to tell you.
We end up growing up with no emotional skills.
~ Karla McLaren, on How She Really Does It
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In this interview we discuss:
why we need to listen to our emotionsnegative emotions are not bad things –> what can we learn from them?positive psychologyquestions to ask your feelingshow we learn our emotionsTrauma Olympicsboundary + grounding + focusing insidewhat are our emotions telling us?how do we learn what are emotions are trying to tell uswhat to do when we want to flee away from the emotiondo happy emotions also cause us to distract?Two takeaways – to practice listening to emotions“Develop an emotional vocabulary.”
~ Karla McLaren, on How She Really Does It
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