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Guided audio practices to stop fighting your anxiety and start working with it as an untapped source of energy, focus, foresight, and productivity

Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you've probably tried the usual options--distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us. And when we know how to work with it, this powerful emotion gives us the clarity and motivation to complete our tasks and fulfill our goals.

Join acclaimed educator, researcher, and author Karla McLaren to transform your relationship with anxiety by:
Strengthening your boundaries to create a safe and calm personal space
Conscious Complaining--an emotional channeling process to help you regulate your anxiety and reveal its important information
Burning old contracts to bring your emotions back to natural balance
Resourcing--to comfort and empower yourself with somatic healing methods
Conscious Questioning--a self-inquiry process for accessing the insights and energy of anxiety, and more
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. Practices for Embracing Anxiety shows you the way, step by step.

Program Contents:
Session 1 - Practices for Reframing and Embracing Anxiety
Session 2 - Anxiety, Fear, Confusion, Panic, and Healing Practices
Session 3 - Anxiety, Anger, Shame, Depression, and Healing
Session 4 - Self-Care Practices for Anxiety Professionals and Anxious Times

Empath Karla McLaren is 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 is the author of The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You (Sounds True, 2010), the online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (Sounds True, 2012) and The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill (October, 2013).

Karla has taught at such venues as the University of San Francisco, Omega Institute, Naropa University, Kripalu, and the Association for Humanistic Psychology. Additionally, as a prison arts educator with the William James Foundation, she has utilized singing, drumming, and drama to help men in maximum security prisons explore and heal long-held emotional traumas. She is currently developing new forms of Empathy and Social Interaction curricula for neurologically diverse populations.

Karla lives in California with her husband, Tino Plank, a Master's level nurse educator who works in hospice and end-of-life care.