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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

By Marci Sharif — 2020

In McLaren’s view, we typically perceive emotions as problems, which we then thoughtlessly express or repress. She advocates a more mindful approach, where we step back and see our emotions as sources of information.

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