This is the big-picture “self-healing” blueprint. LePera maps how childhood conditioning, nervous-system survival modes, trauma, beliefs, and habits all combine into the autopilot you call “me,” and spawn codependency, emotional numbness, and physical dysregulation that no quick fix can touch. Instead of centering clinicians, she hands the tools back to you — awareness practices, nervous-system regulation, reparenting, and behavior change — so you can gradually rewire your patterns and create a life that actually feels like yours.

Known as “The Holistic Psychologist,” LePera blends neuroscience, somatic therapy, and holistic tools into a DIY blueprint for spotting autopilot behaviors, re-patterning through daily awareness, and building resilience from the inside out.​​

She weaves in her own story of growing up in a “normal,” loving but emotionally limited home — with parents whose unresolved pain shaped her patterns — then shows how naming that dynamic, setting new boundaries, and healing her relationship with them became part of her self-healing journey.

What you can get from reading it

• Core principles of self‑healing: why you’re not “broken,” how your subconscious runs most of your day, and what it takes to become more conscious than your autopilot.​​
• Concrete practices to build daily awareness — body scans, journaling, pattern tracking — so you can finally see your triggers, numbing habits, and stories in real time.​​
• A trauma‑informed lens on childhood (including emotional neglect, enmeshment, and parentification) and how those experiences show up as adult anxiety, burnout, or codependency.​​
• Reparenting tools to give your inner child the nurturing, structure, and boundaries you missed, shifting from self‑abandonment to self‑trust.​​
• Boundary-building rituals like "container visualization" to hold emotions internally without people-pleasing leaks.​​
• Cycle-breaking toolkit for codependency and stress loops, fostering authentic connections from a regulated core.​
• Holistic habits — sleep, nutrition, movement, breath, and community — as part of psychological healing, not side notes, so change actually lands in your body.

About the author

Dr. Nicole LePera earned her doctorate in clinical psychology and practiced as a traditional therapist before hitting burnout and recognizing that talk therapy alone wasn’t shifting her patients’ or her own entrenched patterns. That realization led her to develop a holistic, self‑healing model — integrating neuroscience, trauma work, CBT, epigenetics, somatics, and lifestyle — which she now shares with millions via her online community "The Holistic Psychologist" and through her bestselling books, all informed by her personal journey of confronting childhood conditioning, chronic symptoms, and family dynamics from the inside out.​​