The gifts of ALL emotions—including depression

Sounds True: Insights at the Edge

Tami Simon

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and educator whose empathic approach to emotions informs her studies of sociology, anthropology, neurology, and cognitive psychology. With Sounds True, Karla has most recently contributed to the anthology Darkness Before Dawn: Redefining the Journey Through Depression. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Karla and Tami Simon discuss depression as an essential human emotion—one that may carry important messages about what’s no longer working for you. They also talk about the questions you can ask of your emotions to determine their cause and the course of action they are asking you to take. Finally, Tami and Karla speak on the necessity of understanding and embracing the full range of human emotions—even those you deem unpleasant—in order to live a fuller, healthier life. (58 minutes)

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0:00.0	This program is brought to you by sounds true.com.
0:04.0	At sounds true.com you can find hundreds of downloadable audio
0:08.0	learning programs, plus books, music, videos, and online courses, and events.
0:14.3	At sounds true.com, we think of ourselves
0:17.2	as a trusted partner on the spiritual journey,
0:20.2	offering diverse, in-depth, and life-changing wisdom.
0:24.0	Sounds True.com, guest is Carla McLaren.
0:44.8	Carla is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and pioneering educator,
0:51.2	whose empathic approach to emotions has taken her through the healing
0:56.1	of her own childhood trauma into a healing career and now into the study of sociology, anthropology,
1:04.0	neurology, cognitive psychology, and education.
1:08.6	Carla is the author of several programs
1:11.0	with Sounds True, including the language of emotions, what your
1:15.4	feelings are trying to tell you, and the art of empathy, a complete guide to life's
1:21.3	most essential skill. In this episode of Insights at the Edge,
1:26.0	Carla and I spoke about emotions as messengers and the questions you can ask to elicit the gifts of different emotional states.
1:36.8	We talked specifically about depression as a forced time out and what the vital messages might be that depression brings.
1:46.6	And finally we talked about what it might look like to treat ourselves like a village
1:52.4	where all the members of the village have an essential
1:56.1	role to play. Here's my conversation with a very original thinker, the pioneering Carla McLaren.
2:04.0	Carla, the title for Sounds True's new anthology on redefining the Journey Through Depression comes
2:19.6	from your work, comes from your work on emotions and the title is Darkness Before Dawn.
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