Self-Paced Online Course
The Logic of Emotions
Understand the signals behind emotions rather than reacting to them
By Tim Burkholder, MA, LMHC, CSAT
This course reveals how your emotions serve as powerful information centers that guide your decisions and shape your experiences. Through practical insights and relatable examples, you'll learn to decode the intelligence your emotions offer rather than being controlled by them.
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On Demand Video
You'll get over an hour and 15 minutes of easy to follow video content by Tim to watch on your time and schedule.
10 Self-paced modules
Tim provides downloads and prompts to further reinforce the teaching on each of the core emotions.
Community Comments
Ask questions and trade insights with other course members throughout the various modules .
What You'll Learn
The following topics and concepts are covered through the video lessons, resources, and additional reading:
Emotions as information
Learn to read your feelings like the indicator lights on a dashboard: not problems to fix or fear, but signals pointing to something that needs your attention.
The Notice, Name, & Navigate framework
A simple, repeatable process for any emotion. Notice what you're feeling, name it with precision, then choose how to respond instead of react.
The Eight Core Emotions
Go one at a time through glad, lonely, sad, hurt, anger, fear, guilt, and shame, learning what each one indicates, invites, and costs you when ignored.
Guilt vs. Shame
Understand the difference between "I did something wrong" and "something is wrong with me," and why naming it correctly changes how you respond.
What's Underneath Your Anger
Tell the difference between anger at real injustice and anger that masks a more vulnerable feeling like hurt or fear, so you can respond to what's actually there.
And More...
You'll also get the companion Feelings Wheel, learn why "the only way to the other side is through," and how to move through hard emotions without being ruled by them.
This Course Is For You If:
You feel your emotions strongly but can't always put them into words
This leaves you reacting to situations before you fully understand them, often bigger than the moment seems to call for.
You blow up, shut down, or withdraw instead of responding intentionally
The unprocessed hurt, anger, or shame underneath keeps resurfacing and straining your closest relationships.
You've tried self-help books or willpower and it just hasn't stuck
What's been missing is a framework you can actually use in the moment, not one more verdict that something is wrong with you.
Which Price Is Right (For You)?
We offer our self-paced courses at three pricing tiers, all of which deliver the same content and resources. Please review below and select the one that fits you best.
Need-Based
$15
If you need this resource and have limited finances of your own, this option is for you.
Please grab it without any questions or shame.
Standard Price
$75
Our standard pricing option helps cover the operational and support costs of building these courses.
Similar to the cost of a seminar or workshop.
Pay-It-Forward
$150
For those willing and able to chip in more to offset the low cost option and keep us creating!
Similar to the cost of a one hour counseling session.
Want to send this course as a gift? Pick Standard or Pay-It-Forward 🎁
Meet Your Course Leader
Tim Burkholder, MA, LMHC, CSAT
Tim has spent over a decade as a licensed mental health counselor and brings both clinical depth and personal experience to this course. As a 25-year-old engineer, he ignored his own emotions until they became a clinical depression, an experience that reshaped his life and led him into this work. His approach is analytical, framework-driven, and deeply practical, drawing on modalities including EMDR and his specialized training in emotional regulation and trauma.
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You'll start to see your emotions and those of the people around you in a whole new light .
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