Welcome to Emotion Alliance,
Where Your Emotions Are Your Allies.

In the same way that we at Emotion Alliance welcome all emotions, we also welcome people of any nationality, race, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, age, socio-economic status, and neurological diversity.

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Emotions to Get You Through the Holidays
Emotions to Get You Through the Holidays

As the holidays approach, or rather, the holiday retail season, there are a lot of expectations of joy, celebration, and happiness. When there are expectations of holiday cheer ringing from the 24-hour Christmas music station, it's easy to get sucked in without even knowing it's happened.

Those expectations can be dangerous. Detrimental to having a good time. Detrimental to your health and well-being, and detrimental to those around you.

It seems like the U.S. version of the holidays doesn't make any room for emotions other than happiness and joy. Certainly not sadness, anger, or heaven forbid, grief. But this time of year, when there is so much pressure to be jolly, is often when those other emotions arise with important information.

Repression and Situational Depression
Repression and Situational Depression

In our culture of doing, just allowing ourselves to sit with how we feel is going against the grain. Making time for feeling emotions and considering what information they bring to light may seem like a mystical practice only for ascetics and people who have more time than we do.

Learning to Welcome Your Emotions - All of Them!
Learning to Welcome Your Emotions - All of Them!

When you listen to your emotions, then actions that support your values, help you stay aware of changes around you, help you move forward with your goals and dreams, and help you let go of what's not working are all part of it.

Your anger asks, "what do I value?," and helps you take action to maintain your values.

Your fear asks, "what action should be taken?," and keeps you aware of changes around you.

Your envy and anxiety help inform you about what you want for your future, and what you need to do to make that happen.

Your sadness asks, "what needs to be released?," and, "what needs to be rejuvenated?," so that you stay in the flow of your emotions.

 

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Hi! I’m Anchen Texter, Licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration® Trainer and Consultant, and I’m here to help you learn about yourself, your boundaries, and how to listen to your emotions so that you always have access to the wisdom within yourself.

I specialize in teaching people about boundaries, self care, and preventing burnout. I help you learn who you are and what is important to you, and how to communicate that from a place of strength and wholeness within yourself so that you can live life in the moment, rather than always on the sidelines.

This work is based on the work of Karla McLaren, M.Ed., including her books The Language of Emotions and The Art of Empathy. I work with the understanding that every emotion is there for a reason and contains a message for you, once you learn how to listen.

Experiential Online Courses

Learn about your emotions at your own pace, in empathic and supportive courses with written curriculum, audio practices, live webinars each week, and a forum.

 

Resources

 

Q & A Recordings

Videos

Anchen Texter leads you through the practice of hands-on grounding, or body brushing, as a different approach to getting grounded.

In this video, I speak with Karla McLaren, M.Ed., founder of Dynamic Emotional Integration and EmpathyAcademy.org, and Sherry Olander, DEI Trainer & Consultant and lead teacher at Empathy Academy, about envy. We talk about what envy is trying to tell you, and the ways in which our other emotions can help or hinder this values-oriented emotion.

In this video, I speak with Bobbi McIntyre, Sarah Alexander, LCSW, and Sue Barclay, all DEI Licensees, about the emotions behind change.

Perhaps surprisingly, the first emotion mentioned is depression, and we continue our exploration into many of the emotions that may sound surprising in relation to change, but which are, in fact, quite appropriate, such as grief, hatred, envy and jealousy, fear, anxiety, and panic.

Initially I thought that there would be different emotions behind change that you choose versus change that's forced upon you, but we discover that that may not be the case. It may just be a matter of intensity rather than differing emotions.

We share personal stories of how we have coped with change, chosen or not, and our journeys through the emotions and their messages to us.

I hope you enjoy the video!

In this video, I discuss the emotions behind trust with Jennifer Asdorian and Sherry Olander, both licensed DEI Trainers and consultants. Sherry starts with by pointing out the essential nature of being able to listen to your emotions, or if you put it another way, acknowledging that you have emotions so that you can listen to them.

We talk about shame, envy, sadness, and anger in relationship to self-trust, and how our learning institutions are designed so that kids are looking for a right answer that only the teacher holds. What is the difference between trusting yourself, and not?

Videos

In this part of our conversation, we explore the emotions behind antiracism, and how being antiracist is really about identifying your own emotions, your shadow self, and your unconscious contracts, and being willing to work with all parts of yourself.

4 DEI professionals look at self-hatred through the lens of Dynamic Emotional Integration, a research-based approach to emotions developed by Karla McLaren, M.Ed.

Sarah Alexander, LCSW, shares her perspective on the relationship between shame and hatred, and how they can support each other and YOU, when you understand the role that each plays in your life.

In this video, we talk about the two parts to panic: present panic, and panic from the past. Each is asking you to do something different.

This topic can feel triggering, so please stay present with yourself as you watch the video. We don't talk about triggering situations, but we do talk about the emotions behind them. Please take care of yourself.

Anchen Texter and Jennifer Asdorian talk about how naming emotions, a seemingly simple and underrated action, can illuminate and define what's really going on in your life. When you can name what you're feeling, you have a whole lot more control over your actions.

We also talk about the role of shame and outdated contracts in self-silencing, repressing emotions, and in being unable to name what you're feeling. There is no shame in feeling shame, only the knowledge that something needs to be made right.

This video includes a link to the Emotional Vocabulary List, a free downloadable resource you can print out and hold in your hand whenever you need to name what you're feeling.

Are you ready to listen to your emotions?

An Emotion Consultation might be right for you

Sometimes, despite all the work you do and the information you have, your emotions just don't make sense to you. An emotion consultation with Anchen gives you an educated outside perspective on your emotions, and concepts and/or practices to help you work with and understand what your emotions are trying to tell you. She works with you experientially to help you understand how your emotions are working from a bodily level, and to help you make the connection between your intellectual understanding of emotions, and the physical experience of your emotions (not anyone else’s).

As a Dynamic Emotional Integration consultant, Anchen specializes in helping you learn how to:

- Define and set boundaries that are appropriate and realistic for you
- Regulate your emotions with a variety of empathic and experiential practices
- Identify soft emotions and effective methods for working with them
- Develop your emotional self-awareness in the ongoing journey of working consciously with your emotions
- Identify and change underlying outdated, unrealistic, or inappropriate contracts

You may benefit from working with Anchen if you feel like:

- You have to say yes to everything or you feel bad for saying no
- Your life controls you instead of the other way around
- You rarely live up to your expectations or often feel disappointed in yourself
- You self-silence or keep yourself on the sidelines
- You can’t seem to stop doing certain behaviors even if you want to
- You put yourself and your needs last
- You don’t know what feels nourishing and rejuvenating to you
- You have a hard time relaxing after experiencing intense emotions
- You try to avoid feeling certain emotions with distractions

You may be a good fit to work with Anchen if you:

- Work well with someone who’s direct (sometimes very direct), authentic, and intuitive
- Are ready to welcome your emotions, even if it means facing some uncomfortable truths
- Are willing to feel uncomfortable emotions or sensations in order to better understand yourself and how you function
- Are familiar with or receptive to foundational emotional concepts such as The 4 Keys, and the 5 Empathic Mindfulness practices from DEI literature (such as The Language of Emotions, by Karla Mclaren, M.Ed.)
- Want to learn to welcome the intelligence in all of your emotions

Contact Information

Hello! I’m glad to hear from you with comments. questions, or requests for more information. Just email me, or fill out the form below and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.

Anchen@EmotionAlliance.com

(541) 913-0462

 

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About Me

Anchen Texter is a Licensed Dynamic Emotional Integration® Consultant and Trainer.

She lives in Eugene, Oregon, and offers experiential DEI workshops and trainings in person and online to people and organizations looking for deep, sustainable change from within.

Her training in DEI, massage, and shamanic healing have prepared her to work from a whole-person perspective so that she considers the needs of the whole student in her workshops and consultations.

Anchen’s areas of expertise include helping her clients and students work with boundaries and anger, identify nourishing self-care practices to prevent burnout, experiential practices for learning to name and work with all of their emotions, and emotion regulation practices.

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