Cultivating Emotional Wisdom and Practice Starts Monday, March 7th, 2022 4-month program $1200 *CE Credits Available *Application Required Join an empathic online community to explore new information about emotions and develop your own self-care program based on your unique needs. This 4-month immersion into emotions, self-healing, and self-care will help you uncover the unique genius in your emotions and support you as you develop new awareness … Read More
In our Emotion Dynamics Facebook group, we search for images or messages that treat emotions and empathy with respect, but we don’t find many. Especially not for anger! So we usually have to create our own. This meme helps us think more clearly about the gifts of anger. Feel free to share this Better Meme. If you’ve read Karla McLaren’s books or taken courses at … Read More
The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature This month’s Great Read is a collection of essays on the human shadow, which you can discover by exploring what you despise and also what you adore. Meeting the Shadow uncovers the shadow in a variety of places: in relationships, groups, families, churches, and our hearts — and it shares many ways to work with and … Read More
Skills to Help You Make an Ally out of Anger Starts Monday, March 21st, 2022 4-week online course $145 You need your anger, and your anger needs your support! Your anger is crucial to your sense of yourself, your ability to know who you are and what you want, and your ability to set boundaries. When you know how to work with your anger, your life … Read More
Conscious Complaining is one of the 5 Empathic Mindfulness practices developed by Karla McLaren. This particular practice was adapted from the work of Barbara Sher in her book Wishcraft. In this video, Karla explores the importance of complaining consciously with intention and care, and how you can use this practice to access the genius in your emotions.
Discovering the Hidden Genius in Your Anxiety and Procrastination Starts Monday, April 11th 5-week online course $195 Anxiety is an essential emotion with an important job: it helps you prepare for the future, organize yourself, and gather the energy you need to get things done. In Embracing Your Anxiety, you’ll learn how to recognize, work with, and appreciate the genius in your anxiety! Embracing Your Anxiety … Read More
In our Emotion Dynamics Facebook group, we search for images or messages that treat emotions and empathy with respect, but we don’t find many. Especially not for shame! So we usually have to create our own! This meme helps us think more clearly about the gifts of shame. Feel free to share this Better Meme. If you’ve read Karla McLaren’s books or taken courses at … Read More
Procrastination, Emotions, and Success In this surprising and valuable book, psychologist Mary Lamia explores the importance of anxiety, which she identifies as the emotion of motivation. Dr. Lamia also identifies two ways that we work with our anxiety. In one, which she calls task-oriented, we are motivated by tasks and tend to complete them in a step-by-step way, one after another. In the other motivational style, … Read More
Burning Contracts is one of the 5 Empathic Mindfulness practices developed by Karla McLaren. This practice is vital for making changes to ideas, beliefs, and behaviors that no longer work for you. In this video, Karla explores Burning Contracts as a practice for working through intense and toxic messages and how you can disentangle from them – with the help of all of your emotions – … Read More
Welcoming Flow into Your Life Starts Monday, May 2nd, 2022 4-week online course $145 Relaxing and taking care of yourself comes easily when you can access your sadness! Having a healthy relationship with sadness means you recognize when it’s time to let things go. In Befriending Sadness, you’ll delve deep into the gifts of sadness and learn the practices to help you stay present with your … Read More