Making Friends with Anxiety … and All of Your Emotions

In this podcast, I talk with Karla about her "unified theory of emotions," and some of the most important principles that underlie this theory, including the starting point that emotions are neither positive nor negative; they are aspects of cognition that bring us necessary information to help us navigate in the present moment. We also discuss:

• The transformational power of emotional literacy: how research studies show that people are more regulated when they have more descriptive and nuanced words for their emotional experiences
• Karla's new book, Embracing Anxiety, and how anxiety's job is to help us prepare for the future
• Why Karla calls her husband "an anxiety shrine," and refers to herself as a "depression shrine," and how we can come to appreciate certain human beings as places where a particular emotion loves to visit
• How emotions often arise in clusters, and how to work with the Anxiety/Panic/Fear cluster which is present for many people at this time
• A specific practice we can do to stay grounded and open to receive the genius in our emotions

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