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The Language of Emotions

What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You: Revised and Updated

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Featuring significant updates, the new edition of this beloved book takes readers to the heart of each emotion's powerful gifts and messages.
Every emotion—even shame, anger, and anxiety—brings us vital information and wisdom. Emotions—especially the unwanted and dishonored ones—hold a tremendous amount of energy. "Too often, we either repress our feelings or let them run wild," says researcher and educator Karla McLaren. "What many of us were never taught are the fundamental skills for honoring and understanding our profound, powerful emotions." In this new edition of The Language of Emotions, McLaren takes us much deeper than naming or managing our feelings—she teaches us to listen to the messages within each emotion, reflect on their questions, and incorporate their wisdom into our lives.
Enhanced through more than a decade of research and teaching, this edition offers a time-tested emotional guidebook, including:

  • How to safely feel and identify emotions—especially the most intense ones
  • Practices for working with feelings—including setting boundaries, grounding, and the healing power of complaining consciously
  • Building your empathy—five key skills for awakening your emotional genius
  • The role of emotions in the resolution of trauma
  • Decoding the unique messages, gifts, and insights carried by each emotion
  • New to this edition: insights and practices on anxiety, an exploration of loneliness, and much more
    Learning the language of our emotions can deepen our self-understanding, improve our intuition, and enhance our relationships. "Emotions aren't problems to be solved," teaches McLaren. "If you learn their language, your emotions can become an indispensable source of vitality, personal growth, and profound healing."

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      • Library Journal

        June 10, 2024

        In the first version of this book, originally released in 2010, social science researcher McLaren explained how the emotional realm is a dynamic system that informs and integrates us. This updated edition continues to maintain this, but it also reveals that anxiety is a distinct emotion from fear. McLaren includes the four key models for understanding emotions that she developed in The Art of Empathy. She explains why repressing emotions, as people are often taught to do, can be destabilizing. She defines a family of four elements that inhabit the psyche--air, earth, body, and water--and explains that emotions should flow like water. The author continues to assert that all emotions, even anger and jealousy, convey valuable information. Emotions only become problematic when they become stuck in a loop. She offers recommendations for an imbalanced psyche and explores that in greater detail in the second part of the book. McLaren gives readers additional resources when needed and advises how to honor each emotion in others. VERDICT The revised edition is the result of the author conducting 10 additional years of research. The updated version is a valuable resource for all libraries.--Chantal Walvoord

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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