Karla McLaren

“The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace” (2021)

The Power of Emotions at Work: Accessing the Vital Intelligence in Your Workplace

“Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion” (2020)

An In-depth Guide For Engaging With Anxiety—not As An Affliction, But As An Essential Source Of Foresight, Intuition, And Energy For Completing Your Tasks And Projects. If You're Facing Anxiety, You've Probably Got One Thing On Your Mind—how To Make It Go Away. But What If This Challenging Emotion Were Actually Trying To Help? When We Ignore Or Repress Our Anxiety,” Teaches Karla Mclaren, It Can Overwhelm Us. But When We Learn To Welcome It With Skill, We Can Access Its Remarkable Gifts. Engaged With Wisely, Anxiety Is Your Task Completion Ally—it Helps You To Focus, Plan, Take Action, And Fulfill Your Goals. With Embracing Anxiety, You'll Join This Acclaimed Educator And Researcher To Explore: • Principles And Practices To Befriend Your Anxiety At Every Level Of Intensity (before It Overwhelms You) • Strategies To Engage With Anxiety As A Resource For Foresight, Conscientiousness, And Motivation • Why Fear, Panic, Worry, And Anxiety Are Not The Same, And Tools To Work With Each Effectively • How Anxiety Blends With Anger, Sadness, And Other Emotions, And How To Clarify These Compounded States • Using Mclaren’s Conscious Questioning Practice To Engage With Anxiety And Garner Its Insights • How To Embrace Procrastination And Still Get Things Done When You Identify, Listen To, And Act On Anxiety Skillfully, You Support Its Purpose, Teaches Mclaren, And Allow It To Recede Naturally Until It Is Needed Again. With Embracing Anxiety, You'll Learn How To Get This Powerful Emotion On Your Side.

“Escaping Utopia” (2017)

We think of cults as bizarre, inexplicable, or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit, but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact, the behaviors, social pressures, and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind, the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own, without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over, the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book, the first of its kind focusing on this particular population.

“The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill” (2013)

“The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You” (2010)

Your 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 The Language of Emotions, she presents her breakthrough teachings for a new and empowering relationship with your feeling states. Your 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 The Language of Emotions, 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. When 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. The Language of Emotions gives us a much-needed resource for self-understanding and freedom: How to overcome addictions, distractions, and unresolved trauma—the three primary impediments to emotional ease Using the energy of anger to protect and restore personal boundaries Step-by-step guidance in the five skills of the empath (someone skilled in reading emotions) How to balance your “quaternity,” a metaphor for the interplay of mind, body, spirit, and emotions Honoring sadness as a source of release and rejuvenation Joy, the natural response to beauty and communion