“I’m angry.” “I’m fine.” The label tells you the category. It tells you almost nothing about what the emotion actually is, or what it needs. This guide gets underneath it.

More than thirty emotions, each one taken past the surface word.

Mapped to the core state most likely to be driving it: Safety, Gain and Loss, Clarity, or Self.

Placed on the spectrum from mild to profound, because a sting of irritation and a wave of rage need very different things.

Broken down by reaction type, so you can tell a signal worth acting on from a pattern arriving from another room.

It’s a reference, not a read. Something to come back to when a particular emotion keeps showing up in your life and you can’t quite get which core state is triggering it.

Free. Yours to keep.

Calm is the edge. Taking life in, not taking it on.