Early Pre-Verbal Trauma
Nicole shares her personal experience of pre-verbal trauma and discusses how early experiences can shape our lives without our conscious awareness. She explores the impact of maternal anxiety during pregnancy and the lasting effects it can have on our nervous system and memory formation.In this clip
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EPISODE #1002: How to Do the Work, Meet Your Self and Be Your Most Authentic – Nicole LePera, Ph.D.
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How do negative experiences, such as being told how we should feel at a young age or into adulthood, get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions? This question is in relation to the episode 3 Surprising Reasons Why You Have No Childhood Memories ft. Dr. Nicole LePera | Mel Robbins Podcast and the clip Uncovering Childhood Narratives, as well as the episode EPISODE #1002: How to Do the Work, Meet Your Self and Be Your Most Authentic – Nicole LePera, Ph.D. and the clip Early Pre-Verbal Trauma.
Is it fair to say that the brain can build on traumatic memories, preventing a person from taking actions that could allow them to heal themselves, as discussed in the episodes Something Scary Happened The Other Day and I Wanted To Talk To You About It | Mel Robbins Podcast and 478: Are you metabolizing your trauma? | Functional medicine expert Will Cole, D.C., along with the clip Trauma Response?
For example, I produced a huge activation, which was the largest success of my career, that opened on my mother's birthday. Two weeks later, she died in her sleep. Now, when I attempt to work on large, challenging projects like this one, I can start the process creatively but have great trouble following through on distributing it to people who could help me execute it. Is that a fair analysis of how my mind is perceiving my actions as leading to a similar tragic outcome?