📚 How to Be the Love You Seek by Dr. Nicole LePera

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This book is all about relationships — romantic, family, friendship — but she comes at them through the body, not just the mind: attachment wounds, survival strategies, and dysregulated nervous systems are framed as the real drivers of conflict and disconnection. Dr. Nicole LePera, known as known as “The Holistic Psychologist,” shows how unmet childhood needs script our patterns (people‑pleasing, shutdown, chasing, avoiding), then offers somatic tools, boundary work, and communication shifts so you can create the safety, honesty, and intimacy you’ve been seeking from others.

What you can get from reading it

  • A clear explainer of how your attachment style and nervous system state (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) quietly shape your relationship dynamics and triggers.​​
  • Practical somatic practices — breath, movement, sensory grounding — to bring your body back to safety before you text back, pick a fight, or abandon yourself.​​
  • Guidance for breaking generational patterns of enmeshment, emotional immaturity, or shutdown, so you stop reenacting your childhood with partners, parents, or kids.​​
  • Trauma bond breakers: "parts work" journaling to dialogue with inner child wounds, releasing enmeshment through conscious uncoupling steps.​
  • Scripts and reflection prompts for honest conversations, repairing ruptures, and learning to stay present in conflict instead of disappearing or attacking.​​
  • A deep reframe that healthy love starts with self: tending to your own needs, boundaries, and emotions so you can finally be the love you’re chasing outward.

About the author

Dr. Nicole LePera is a holistic psychologist, trained in clinical psychology and rooted in nervous-system science, who built a global audience of millions through her “Holistic Psychologist” platform and bestselling work on self‑healing. Her focus on attachment, trauma, and relationships comes directly from years in private practice and from untangling her own history of enmeshment, people‑pleasing, and shutdown in her family of origin, which makes her uniquely equipped to translate complex theory into grounded tools for healing real‑world relationships.​​

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Dr. Nicole LePera
Break the chains of past trauma to become the love & safety you crave.
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