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Sounds True.com, many voices, one journey. You're listening to Insights at the Edge and today we have part two of my conversation with Carla McLaren on the art of empathy.

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, neurology, cognitive psychology, and education.

She's the author of the book and audio series, The Language of Emotions,

what your feelings are trying to tell you, as well as a new book and audio series on the

art of empathy, a complete guide to life's most essential

skill.

In part two of my conversation with Carla McLaren on the art of empathy, we talked about emotions and what it might

mean to consider that there's no such thing as a positive or negative emotion. We also talked about developing empathic skills, including two unusual

empathic skills taught by Carla, conscious complaining, and ethical Empathic

gossip. We also talked about shadow work and how any experience of hatred is an indication that a shadow part of our

psyche is involved. And finally we talked about what it might mean to bring our

empathy into the world. Here's part two of my

conversation on the art of empathy with Carla McLaren. Karen. of empathy. In the first part of our conversation we talked about the six aspects of empathy and I actually think I have a fairly good idea now of what you mean by empathy in all of its different aspects. But one thing I'm still unclear about is there are

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