"Trauma isn't just what happened to us. It's more so about the support we may or may not have had to navigate the emotional fallout of what happened."
Nicole LePera, Ph.D., is the creator of the worldwide @theholisticpsychologist movement, and the author of multiple bestselling books including How to Do the Work and her newest, Reparenting the Inner Child. She was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research and studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Her work has reached tens of millions of people on social media, who are waking up to the idea that healing doesn't happen in a therapist's office alone.
00:00 — How to recognize your inner child
04:05 — Redefining childhood trauma
06:09 — How parenting has shifted over time
10:00 — Safety as a foundation
14:30 — Why children internalize a parent’s anger
18:10 — How ownership & awareness can lead to reparenting
20:21 — Epigenetics: when the trauma didn’t start with you
22:55 — Why insight alone doesn’t create change
24:19 — Embracing discomfort & developing resilience
26:01 — Navigating difficult relationships
29:53 — What acceptance actually looks like
37:03 –– Emotional dysregulation & numbness
40:16 — What you can do to start healing right now
Find Nicole LePera on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/the.holistic.psychologist/
Buy her book here: https://a.co/d/04SVp4tW
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