The Language of Emotions

“Karla McLaren’s revised and updated book, The Language of Emotions, presents a model for understanding emotions and explores the positive aspects of anxiety. Karla uses her lived experience of trauma to inform her readers in ways that may enable them to achieve the emotional understanding necessary to learn from and move beyond their past. There is no doubt that Karla’s passion to help her readers understand emotions, and provide them with useful tools to do so, makes this new edition of her book a gift for those who are suffering from or grappling with what they feel.” –Mary Lamia, PhD, author of Grief Isn’t Something to Get Over and Understanding Myself

“Karla McLaren’s book The Language of Emotions is the first I will recommend to survivors of traumatic and abusive environments and relationships. Karla’s knowledge of how to understand emotions and engage with them in a positive and healing way is an invaluable resource.” –Janja Lalich, PhD, author of Take Back Your Life and Bounded Choice

“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.” –Michael Meade, author of The World Behind the World and The Water of Life

“This book changed the way I relate to others, and to myself, forever.” –Gavin de Becker, author of The Gift of Fear and Protecting the Gift

Karla McLaren, M.Ed., is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy innovator. She is CEO of Emotion Dynamics Inc., developer of Dynamic Emotional Integration®, and creator of the Empathy Academy. Karla is the author of Embracing Anxiety, The Dynamic Emotional Integration Workbook, The Art of Empathy, The Power of Emotions at Work, and the multimedia online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions.