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Talk · The Emotion Codex · 2026Emoties zijn geen gevoelens, maar energie
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Emoties zijn geen gevoelens, maar energie

In Dutch: Vera Helleman on the difference she draws between a feeling and an emotion, and on treating emotion as energy that moves.

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Dutch former psychotherapist, bestselling author and educator who developed the Emotion Codex, a framework mapping eight stages of emotional awareness.

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