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Karla McLaren



Karla McLaren, MEd, is an American author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her lifelong work focuses on her theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens new pathways into self-awareness, effective communication, and healthy empathy. She is the founding CEO of Emotion Dynamics LLC and the developer of the Empathy Academy online learning site.

Karla McLaren
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Sadness and Letting Go

Sadness is a wonderful emotion that helps you let go of things that aren't working anymore so that you can make room for things that DO work.

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The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill

Empathy, teaches Karla McLaren, is a universal human skill that we can all learn to awaken and use wisely. With The Art of Empathy, you will learn, step-by-step, the art of experiencing through the eyes and hearts of those around you—and to connect with and support them most effectively.

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Understand Your Emotions to Grow and Heal

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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FindCenter Quotes ImageWe work with nutrition and exercise to increase our energy, but we ignore the richest source of energy we possess—our emotions.

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Karla McLaren: Embracing Our Emotions

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The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

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.

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Repressing or Expressing Emotions? There’s Another Choice!

I don’t know what happened to emotions in this society. They are the least understood, most maligned, and most ridiculously over-analyzed aspects of human life.

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Karla McLaren - the Art of Empathy

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Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion

Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you’ve probably tried the usual options—distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us.

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Anger and Good Boundaries

Your healthy anger should arise when your sense of self and your idea of how things should be (your boundaries) are challenged or broken. What you do next, and how you re-set your boundaries, determines the outcome for you and for your relationships. Healthy anger can change your life!

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