"Karla McLaren's revised and updated book, The Language of Emotions, presents a model for understanding emotions and explores the positive aspects of anxiety. Karla uses her lived experience of trauma to inform her readers in ways that may enable them to achieve the emotional understanding necessary to learn from and move beyond their past. There is no doubt that Karla's passion to help her readers understand emotions, and provide them with useful tools to do so, makes this new edition of her book a gift for those who are suffering from or grappling with what they feel." --Mary Lamia, PhD, author of Grief Isn't Something to Get Over and Understanding Myself"Karla McLaren's book The Language of Emotions is the first I will recommend to survivors of traumatic and abusive environments and relationships.