The Language Of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying To Tell You

Karla McLaren. M.Ed. is an award-winning author, social science 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 Tel you (2010), and the multi-media online course Emotional Flow (2012). With Janja Lalich, PhD., Karla is also the co-author of Escaping Utopia (2018), which focuses on the lives of people who grew up in cults and escaped.

Karla is the founder of EmpathyAcademy.org and the developer of Dynamic Emotional Integration®, a leading-edge licensing program and consultation process to help you develop keen emotional awareness, healthy empathic skills, and emotionally-respectful mindfulness practices.

Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, Esalen Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu Center, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, as a prison arts educator with the William James Foundation, she has utilized singing, drumming, and drama to help men in maximum security prisons explore and heal long-held emotional traumas.

Karla is also a Certified Human Resource Administrator and a Certified Career Development Facilitator who helps people identify the emotion work they are expected to perform (or expect others to perform, perhaps without realizing it). When emotion work is brought out into the open and managed skillfully, individuals and businesses can avoid unnecessary conflict, burnout, and loss of productivity.