Emotions—especially the dark and dishonored ones—hold a tremendous amount of energy. We've all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them. With The Language of Emotions, empathic counselor Karla McLaren shows you how to meet your emotions and receive their life-saving wisdom to safely move toward resolution and equilibrium. Through experiential exercises covering a full spectrum of feelings from anger, fear, and shame to jealousy, grief, joy, and more, you will discover how to work with your own and others' emotions with fluency and expertise.
Here is a much-needed resource filled with revolutionary teachings and breakthrough skills for cultivating a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states through The Language of Emotions.
The Language of Emotions
What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You: Revised and Updated
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- ISBN: 9781591798972
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- ISBN: 9781591798972
- File size: 1969 KB
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Library Journal
June 10, 2024
In the first version of this book, originally released in 2010, social science researcher McLaren explained how the emotional realm is a dynamic system that informs and integrates us. This updated edition continues to maintain this, but it also reveals that anxiety is a distinct emotion from fear. McLaren includes the four key models for understanding emotions that she developed in The Art of Empathy. She explains why repressing emotions, as people are often taught to do, can be destabilizing. She defines a family of four elements that inhabit the psyche--air, earth, body, and water--and explains that emotions should flow like water. The author continues to assert that all emotions, even anger and jealousy, convey valuable information. Emotions only become problematic when they become stuck in a loop. She offers recommendations for an imbalanced psyche and explores that in greater detail in the second part of the book. McLaren gives readers additional resources when needed and advises how to honor each emotion in others. VERDICT The revised edition is the result of the author conducting 10 additional years of research. The updated version is a valuable resource for all libraries.--Chantal Walvoord
Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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