Empathy & Emotional Awareness Ft. Karla McLaren w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

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Watch this episode to discover how understanding and expressing your emotions can enhance your self-awareness and mindfulness. Karla McLaren is an award-winning author, educator, workplace consultant, and social science researcher. Her groundbreaking model, The Six Essential Aspects of Empathy, explores the conditions required for successful empathizing to occur. In this episode, Karla discusses those different styles of empathy, as well as how our emotions influence our capacity to empathize. 00:00 Preview 00:28 Introduction 00:18 About Karla McLaren 02:31 Karla’s backstory 05:03 Karla's journey of learning from emotions 08:13 Practices to identify emotions 10:56 The importance of self-awareness 12:48 Why mindfulness helps us sense our emotions 15:18 Understanding empathic styles 17:45 What is the “state matching” form of empathy? 21:55 Empathic communication practices 25:18 How can parents read emotions with empathy? 30:22 Six fears of emotions 33:47 Strategies to overcome exam anxiety 37:11 Karla McLaren’s Purposeful Empathy story CONNECT WITH ANITA ✩ Email purposefulempathy@gmail.com ✩ Website https://www.anitanowak.com ✩ Buy a copy of Purposeful Empathy http://tiny.cc/PurposefulEmpathyCA ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitanowak/ ✩ Instagram https://tinyurl.com/anitanowakinstagram ✩ Podcast Audio https://tinyurl.com/PurposefulEmpathyPodcast CONNECT WITH KARLA ✩ Email info@emotiondynamics.org ✩ Website https://karlamclaren.com/a-new-community-space/ ✩ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/karla-mclaren-m-ed-17b947a2/ ✩ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karlamclaren.m.ed/ SHOW NOTES ✩ The Language of Emotions ✩ Empathy Academy Video edited by David Tsvariani