About this episode

Dr. Nicole LePera discusses healing childhood trauma through understanding the nervous system and the impact of generational patterns.

Reparenting the inner child sounds like pop psychology until you understand how the nervous system stores what happened to you. Dr. Nicole LePera is a holistic psychologist and New York Times bestselling author, and her return conversation goes into why insight alone rarely changes anything. She lays out the two-step process for real change and what it takes to interrupt the reactive patterns most of us live in without noticing. Epigenetics gets a grounded, non-woo explanation here. Trauma isn't only what happened to you; it's also what your lineage carried into your body before you took your first breath. If you've been circling the same patterns despite years of "doing the work," this one hits deep. You'll learn: [0:00] Introduction [7:59] Feeling your way through trauma when insight alone isn't enough [19:02] Bilateral stimulation and safety matter more than any single therapy [23:32] Epigenetics rewrites the story of who we inherited our brains from [36:18] The generational awakening happening alongside a louder kind of darkness [43:43] Nicole navigates writing publicly about her family [55:20] The shadow side of living out loud and mistaking reactivity for authenticity…

People in this episode

Host: Luke Storey

Guest: Dr. Nicole LePera

Topics covered

• childhood trauma
• holistic psychology
• epigenetics
• inner child
• reactive patterns
• generational trauma

Keywords

• childhood trauma
• holistic psychology
• epigenetics
• inner child
• reactive patterns
• therapy
• grief

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