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Sounds True.com, guest is Carla McLaren.

Carla McLaren is an Empath and an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing of her own childhood trauma into a healing career and now into the study of sociology, anthropology,

anthropology, neurology, cognitive psychology, and education.

With sounds true, she's the author of the book and audio program The Language of Emotions, what your

feelings are trying to tell you, as well as a new book and audio series, The

Art of Empathy, a complete guide to life's most essential skill in this

episode of Insights at the Edge Carla and I talked about what it truly means to be empathic and the challenges of what she calls being a hyper-empath as well as the challenges of being underdeveloped in our empathy.

We also talked about people who are often considered

exiles from the world of empathy and misconceptions about such people.

Finally, our conversation focused on the six aspects of empathy that Carla defines in her new book, The Art of Empathy,

and how we can develop ourselves in all six of these different areas.

Here's part one of my conversation on the art of empathy with

Carla McLaren.

Carla, it's great to be with you here in the Sounds True Studio and to talk about your new book, The Art of Empathy.

Welcome.

I'm so happy to be with you again.

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