About this episode

Dr. Nicole LePera discusses how childhood experiences shape adult behavior and the importance of understanding these patterns for personal growth.

The anxiety you carry, the way you go silent in conflict, the relentless drive that never quite feels like enough, these didn't start with you.  They started much earlier, in relationships and environments your body learned to survive before you had words for any of it. And according to Dr. Nicole LePera, until you understand what your nervous system actually encoded in those years, you'll keep bumping into the same walls, the same patterns, the same exhaustion. Dr. Nicole LePera is a clinical psychologist trained at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research, a New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of the global SelfHealers community. Her new book, Reparenting the Inner Child , brings together neuroscience, attachment research, and epigenetics to explain not just why we are the way we are, but how real change actually happens in the body, not just the mind. In this conversation, you'll explore: Why your childhood adaptations were brilliant at the time, and how they became the patterns holding you back now What the inner child actually is (the science, not the cliche), and why insight alone isn't enough to change it The neuroscience of emotional…

People in this episode

Host: Jonathan Fields

Guest: Dr. Nicole LePera

Topics covered

• childhood patterns
• nervous system
• emotional flooding
• midlife transitions
• epigenetics
• self-healing

Keywords

• anxiety
• inner child
• neuroscience
• attachment research
• stress
• self-improvement
• conflict resolution

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cornell University, New School for Social Research

Books & works: Reparenting the Inner Child

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