📚 How to Do the Work by Dr. Nicole LePera

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Childhood wounds and chronic stress wire your nervous system for survival mode, spawning codependency, emotional numbness, and physical dysregulation that no quick fix can touch. LePera, known as known as “The Holistic Psychologist,” fuses 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. This roadmap activates your innate healing capacity: turning insight into action for a vibrant, unstuck life.​​

What you can get from reading it

  • Conscious awareness drills: pause mid-reactivity to observe thoughts separating from body sensations, creating space for new choices over old triggers.​
  • Nervous system reset via breathwork (4-7-8 cycles) and full-body scans to drop from fight/flight into grounded presence.​​
  • Inner child reparenting: journal dialogues with wounded parts, offering what your younger self needed to soften trauma bonds.​
  • Boundary-building rituals like "container visualization" to hold emotions internally without people-pleasing leaks.​​
  • Gut-support foods, movement flows, and play prompts to sync mind-body for lasting energy shifts.​​
  • Cycle-breaking toolkit for codependency and stress loops, fostering authentic connections from a regulated core.​

About the author

Dr. Nicole LePera hit burnout in traditional clinical practice, realizing talk therapy alone couldn't rewrite her patients' (or her own) deep patterns, so she dove into somatic and holistic methods that transformed her health. That shift birthed "The Holistic Psychologist" platform with millions of followers, plus bestsellers blending CBT, neuroscience, and epigenetics into self-led tools anyone can use.

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How to Do the Work

By:
Dr. Nicole LePera
Master self-healing by rewiring trauma patterns — conscious breath, body scans, and boundary rituals to reclaim your mind, body, and spirit.
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