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Waking Up from the Trance of Unworthiness with Tara Brach

By Tara Brach — 2019

Tara Brach is a renowned meditation teacher and clinical psychologist whose books include Radical Acceptance and True Refuge. “We spend huge swathes of our lives in what I call the ‘trance of unworthiness.’”

31:34 min

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.

Article
Marci Sharif
2020
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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.

Article
Karla McLaren
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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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Karla McLaren
2010
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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.

Book
Karla McLaren
2020
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