Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better…
Jeff welcomes to the SurgeonMasters podcast award-winning author, Karla McLaren, MEd.
Everyone is experiencing some level of anxiety during this global pandemic. While most people try to avoid anxiety at all costs, Karla suggests we embrace our anxiety!
Fear, panic, and anxiety are connected, but all different. It’s important to be able to identify what emotion you’re experiencing so you can know how to best deal with it.
What does Karla suggest we do to embrace our anxiety?
- Suggestion 1 – Identify which emotion you’re feeling. Each emotion has a different purpose and can be dealt with in a different way.
- Suggestion 2 – Embrace those emotions – whether it be panic, fear, or anxiety. Don’t resist – face them head on.
- Suggestion 3 – Practice self-care to balance out these intense emotions.
Most importantly, embrace your anxiety!
Guest: Karla McLaren, M.Ed.
Karla McLaren, M.Ed., is an award-winning author, social science researcher, and empathy pioneer. Her new book, Embracing Anxiety!, is out now. Her lifelong work focuses on her grand unified theory of emotions, which revalues even the most “negative” emotions and opens startling new pathways into self-awareness, self-healing, and healthy empathy. She is the founder and CEO of Emotion Dynamics LLC and the creator of the online learning site EmpathyAcademy.org.
Her applied work, Dynamic Emotional Integration® (also known as DEI) is a groundbreaking approach to emotions and empathy that reveals the genius and the healing power within the emotional realm. Since 2015, Karla has taught and licensed an international group of DEI professionals across the U. S., Canada, the U.K., Europe, and the United Arab Emirates.
Karla is the author of Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius in this Vital Emotion (2020), The Dynamic Emotional Integration® Workbook (2018), The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life’s Most Essential Skill (2013), The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You (2010), and the multi-media online course Emotional Flow: Becoming Fluent in the Language of Emotions (2012).