E186 - Nicole LePera: What Your Childhood Home Did to Your Nervous System
About this episode
Dr. Nicole LePera discusses how childhood experiences shape our nervous system and emotional patterns into adulthood.
Dr. Nicole LePera joins me to explore how our childhood experiences shape the nervous system, emotional patterns, and identities we carry into adulthood. We unpack how many of the reactions, habits, and relationship dynamics that feel automatic today were once adaptations we developed to maintain connection and safety early in life. Nicole explains how emotional attunement in childhood forms the internal “home base” we return to, often recreating familiar patterns even when they no longer serve us. In this conversation, we explore attachment styles, people-pleasing, parentification, and the unconscious roles we adopt in order to belong. Nicole also introduces the practice of reparenting—learning how to meet our own emotional needs through awareness, nervous system regulation, and body-based practices. This episode offers a grounded path toward understanding where our patterns come from and how we can begin to create a deeper sense of safety and home within ourselves. Try LMNT & get a free sample pack https://drinkLMNT.com/KnowThyself MUDWTR - Up to 43% off sitewide (and a free frother!) https://www.mudwtr.com/knowthyself [Code: KNOWTHYSELF] André's Book Recs…
People in this episode
Host: André Duqum
Guest: Nicole LePera
Topics covered
- childhood experiences
- nervous system
- emotional patterns
- attachment styles
- reparenting
- self-awareness
Keywords
- childhood
- nervous system
- emotional attunement
- attachment styles
- people-pleasing
- reparenting
Sponsors
LMNT, MUDWTR
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Products: LMNT, MUDWTR
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