The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

Karla McLaren's The Language of Emotions teaches readers to honor and incorporate their emotions' wisdom into their lives, offering a time-tested emotional guidebook. The first part teaches how to safely feel and identify emotions, while the second part features a chapter on each emotion, sharing its unique messages, questions, and practices for understanding its insights.

Format: Paperback
Length: 448 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2023
Publisher: Sounds True

Emotions, particularly those that are unpleasant and undesired, possess immense energy. We have all witnessed the consequences of repressing or expressing these emotions inappropriately. In this revised edition of "The Language of Emotions," researcher and educator Karla McLaren takes readers on a profound journey beyond merely recognizing or managing emotions. She guides us to embrace and honor them, delve into their underlying questions, and integrate their wisdom into our daily lives. Enhanced through over ten years of extensive research and teaching, this edition presents a time-tested emotional guidebook.

The first part of the book focuses on teaching readers how to safely experience and identify emotions. It includes practical practices for working with feelings, such as setting boundaries, grounding, and conscious complaining. Additionally, it introduces four keys to emotional genius, which are new to this edition.

The second part of the book delves into each emotion individually, sharing its unique messages, questions, and practices for understanding its insights. It includes a chapter on anxiety, a new exploration of loneliness, and much more.

Learning the language of our emotions can deepen our self-understanding, enhance our intuition, and strengthen our relationships. As the book emphasizes, emotions do not create problems; rather, they arise as a means to help us address and overcome challenges. By familiarizing ourselves with their language, we gain the ability to transform our lives.

Weight: 542g
Dimension: 229 x 155 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781649630421