Malka Ceh, PhD, MSc, cNPA

Your Core is Emotions

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Thrive from the Inside Out: Cultivate Emotional Health

Emotions may seem vague and elusive, intangible forces that come and go without logic or structure. They may feel like fog, blurring the edges of thought, impossible to grasp or pin down. But they can be understood and grasped. I'm here to explain a scientifically grounded viewpoint: emotions are biological programs shaped by evolution, designed not to make you happy, but to propagate life.

Emotions are deep-running patterns programmed to shape how you perceive, think, and act. They are the essence of your experience and the agent behind your behavior. They are here to guide you, though not necessarily to where you'd want to go. Learning their language lets you engage in the most vital conversation of your life.

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The Stories We Tell About Emotions And the Ones That Tell on Us

These five familiar beliefs about emotions feel true. They aren't. Learn what evolutionary science reveals about why emotions exist and how to work with them.

Send Me the Myths (and the Real Story)

Emotional Health: The Foundation of Your Well-Being

Emotions Shape Every Bay of Your Life

From your health and career to your relationships and mood, emotional health shapes every bit of your life. Taking care of your emotional foundations routes challenges into personal growth and well-being. Cultivating emotional health liberates your potential for lasting fulfillment.

Your Everyday: Shaping the Sky You Live Under

Emotions are your inner weather. There’s no such thing as a day without weather, but you may not notice it until it turns unpleasant. Emotional health feels like relocating to a more livable climate or learning to dress for the one you're in. It also means knowing how to sail with the wind when it changes.

Health Goals: From Battle to Rhythm

The difference between struggling with healthy habits and maintaining them lies in your emotional patterns. Understanding your emotional programming allows you to smooth the path. Shift the emotional forces at the root, and change becomes less a matter of willpower and more a matter of momentum.

Relationships: Dancing with Significants' Emotions

Relationships are the centerpiece of life’s ballroom, your most essential dance partners. Sometimes they move with grace, sometimes they miss a beat and land on your toes. Learning to synchronize your emotional rhythm and theirs helps you stay in step, even when the music changes without warning.

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Professional Success, Emotionally Speaking

Career success isn’t shaped only by what you know. It depends far more on how you relate to others, move through pressure, read a room, and respond when things feel frayed. Emotions shape the way you build relationships, navigate challenges, and manage the subtle balance of expectations. Emotional competence is what allows you to carry all the moving pieces with steadiness and clarity.

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Family Bonds: From Pain Points to Harmony

Family patterns are like old hand-me-downs. They might still fit, but that doesn’t mean they suit you. Emotional health lets you tailor what you’ve inherited, turning outdated habits into more intentional and connected relationships. It’s not about erasing history, but about gently unpicking what no longer works and stitching together a way that finally does.

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Modern Parenting: Holding It All Together

Your parenting instincts were shaped for simpler times, slower days, and many hands. They weren’t built to meet the modern sky-high expectations. You need tools to adapt your inherited responses to today’s complex realities, so you can meet the chaos with steadiness, presence, and a little more peace of mind.

What’s Here for You

Therapy and Coaching

Through personalized one-on-one work, I help you tune your emotional system to better serve your goals, values, and everyday life. Rather than aiming for quick fixes, my approach focuses on cultivating a sustainable inner rhythm that helps you think clearly, feel fully, and move through life with intention.

Online Classes and Workshops

Meaningful change begins with understanding. My classes and workshops offer thoughtful, structured ways to deepen your emotional awareness and knowledge and apply it to real life. Each program is built on an evergreen curriculum designed to support slow, steady, and lasting growth.

Emotional Profile Assessment

Your emotional profile provides insight into how your emotional system is wired and how it shapes your experience and behavior from within. Grounded in affective science, this clinical assessment unfolds through a structured conversation. Together, we explore your emotional patterns that shape your mood, motivation, achievement, relationships, and well-being

Reflective Groups and Salons

Transformations don’t emerge in isolation. Our small gatherings offer intentional women a space to slow down, connect, reflect, and engage in meaningful conversation. Guided by affective science and structured dialogue, we explore emotional patterns, echo our experiences, and practice new ways of thinking, feeling, and relating.

Malka Ceh

Emotional health with care and clarity.

I work at the intersection of science and everyday life. My background is in evolutionary anthropology, psychotherapy science, and neuropsychoanalysis. I’ve spent years (and continue to) studying how emotions are built, what they’re built for, and how they shape the way you live.

I don’t promise brisk breakthroughs or overnight change. Emotional growth is a slow, often uncomfortable process. It happens through deliberate work: observing yourself closely, facing truths you'd rather avoid, working through resistance, and repeating what doesn’t come naturally until it finally does. My work is for people who value insight and depth, who want to go inward rather than outward, and who care more about what’s quietly unresolved than what’s outwardly polished.

I offer therapy and coaching, host groups and salons, and lead science-based workshops to help you understand yourself and others more deeply, and to support a steady and coherent way of living and relating.

Hear from Experiences

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"I never really thought about what emotions were actually for. I used to hate feeling anxious and saw it as something I needed to get rid of. But learning that anxiety is my brain's way of trying to protect me completely changed how I see it. Now, instead of fighting it, I try to understand what’s the deal and calm my brain down. I feel less overwhelmed and more in control."

- Anne

"I always thought emotions were just random or annoying—like, why do I need to feel angry or upset? But learning that emotions are basically signals trying to help me navigate life was a huge eye-opener. For example, I realized that when I feel angry, it’s usually because I feel stuck. Just understanding that has helped me handle situations so much better, especially at work."

- Andrew

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

"I never really thought about what emotions were actually for. I used to hate feeling anxious and saw it as something I needed to get rid of. But learning that anxiety is my brain's way of trying to protect me completely changed how I see it. Now, instead of fighting it, I try to understand what’s the deal and calm my brain down. I feel less overwhelmed and more in control."

- Anne

"I always thought emotions were just random or annoying—like, why do I need to feel angry or upset? But learning that emotions are basically signals trying to help me navigate life was a huge eye-opener. For example, I realized that when I feel angry, it’s usually because I feel stuck. Just understanding that has helped me handle situations so much better, especially at work."

- Andrew

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

"I never really thought about what emotions were actually for. I used to hate feeling anxious and saw it as something I needed to get rid of. But learning that anxiety is my brain's way of trying to protect me completely changed how I see it. Now, instead of fighting it, I try to understand what’s the deal and calm my brain down. I feel less overwhelmed and more in control."

- Anne

"I always thought emotions were just random or annoying—like, why do I need to feel angry or upset? But learning that emotions are basically signals trying to help me navigate life was a huge eye-opener. For example, I realized that when I feel angry, it’s usually because I feel stuck. Just understanding that has helped me handle situations so much better, especially at work."

- Andrew

"The idea that emotions aren’t meant to make you happy but to help you survive really hit me. It made so much sense, but I’d never thought about it that way before. I’ve started noticing how sadness, for example, is just my mind telling me to slow down and reflect. It’s helped me stop beating myself up for feeling certain things and just do what I have to do anyway."

- Codie

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