{"product_id":"9781591797692","title":"The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You","description":"\u003cp\u003eYour emotions contain brilliant information. When you learn to welcome them as your allies, they can reveal creative solutions to any situation. For 35 years, empathic counselor and researcher Karla McLaren has developed a set of practical tools for the real-world stresses of family, career, and the quest for personal fulfillment. In \u003cb\u003eThe Language of Emotions\u003c\/b\u003e, she presents her breakthrough teachings for a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour 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. However, there is a powerful alternative. In \u003cb\u003eThe Language of Emotions\u003c\/b\u003e, you'll learn to meet your emotions and engage with them 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we relate to our emotions with respect and authenticity, we can directly access our innermost wisdom, unfold the deepest parts of ourselves, and heal our most painful wounds. \u003cb\u003eThe Language of Emotions\u003c\/b\u003e gives us a much-needed resource for self-understanding and freedom:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to overcome addictions, distractions, and unresolved trauma—the three primary impediments to emotional ease\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUsing the energy of anger to protect and restore personal boundaries \u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStep-by-step guidance in the five skills of the empath (someone skilled in reading emotions)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to balance your \"quaternity\" a metaphor for the interplay of mind, body, spirit, and emotions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHonoring sadness as a source of release and rejuvenation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy, the natural response to beauty and communion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Restoring Your Native Language\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction- Creating a Conscious Life\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Empathic Journey- The Difficult Beginnings of Empathy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTroubled Waters - How We Got So Confused\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt Takes a Village - Surrounding Your Emotions With Support\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReviving Your Essential Nature - Making Room for Your Central Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAvoidance, Addiction, and Awakening—Understanding the Need for Distractions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eUnintentional Shamans—The Role of Trauma in Soul-Making and Culture-Binding\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Role of Emotions in the Resolution of Trauma—Water Will Carry You Home\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Steadfast Promise - Why Love is Not an Emotion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilding Your Raft—The Five Empathic Skills\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003ePART II : Embracing Your Emotions\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWading Into the Water - Awakening All of Your Emotions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnger: Protection and Restoration—Includes Rage, Fury, and the Healing of Trauma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eApathy and Boredom—The Mask for Anger\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGuilt and Shame—Restoring Integrity\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHatred—The Profound Mirror—Includes Resentment, Contempt, Disgust, and Shadow Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFear: Intuition and Action - Includes Anxiety, Worry, and the Healing of Trauma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConfusion: The Mask for Fear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJealousy and Envy: Relational Radar—Includes Greed\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePanic and Terror: Frozen Fire - Includes Healing from Trauma\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSadness: Release and Rejuvenation: Includes Despair and Despondency\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGrief: The Deep River of the Soul\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDepression: Ingenious Stagnation—Focusing on Situational Depression\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSuicidal Urges: The Darkness Before Dawn\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHappiness: Amusement and Anticipation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContentment: Appreciation and Recognition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoy: Affinity and Communion—Includes Exhilaration and Honoring Happiness in Others\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStress and Resistance: Understanding Emotional Physics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEmotions Are Your Native Language—The Fine Art of a Life Well Lived\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In my graduate education in counseling psychology, I found very little information about our emotions. Yet in my work as a therapist and educator, I've seen that emotions are key to healing. Karla McLaren's book offers an outstanding guide to the signals and messages emotions send us, along with clear instructions for intelligent and emotion-supporting actions we can take in response. Karla has made a huge contribution to the well-being of us all; The Language of Emotions will become required reading in all of my courses.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Nancy Feehan, MFT, adjunct professor of counseling psychology at the University of San Francisco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Karla McLaren's unique, empathic view of emotions surprisingly revalues even the most \"negative\" emotions and opens pathways to understanding the depths of the human soul.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Michael Meade, author of \u003cb\u003eThe World Behind the World\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Water of Life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book changed the way I relate to others, and to myself, forever.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Gavin De Becker, author of \u003cb\u003eThe Gift of Fear\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sounds True, Incorporated","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055112110320,"sku":"9781591797692","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781591797692_p0.jpg?v=1763811296","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781591797692","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}