Healing Trauma, Finding Self-Expression
Nicole LePera discusses the importance of healing trauma in order to fully express oneself and find purpose. She emphasizes the need to move beyond narrating the memory and instead focus on somatic work to heal the trauma in the body. The conversation also touches on how external influences can exploit our desire for worthiness and enoughness, leading us to seek fulfillment in material possessions rather than within ourselves.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.
Related Questions
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 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. It's also related to the episode #067: Codependency, The Disease To Please with Terri Cole and the clip Unconscious Fear, as well as the episode Dr. Paul Conti: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges | Huberman Lab Podcast #75 and the clip Maladaptive Thinking Patterns.
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 episodes Alexis Haines: Trauma Triggering Autoimmunity, Addiction + Radical Recovery, Reprogramming the Mind, \[#411: Am I Too Much? Healing Your Wounds with Mom and Reclaiming Your Worth, Why You're Failing to Attract Anyone | Dr. Robert Glover - MP Podcast #105, Paul Conti: Narcissism, Sociopathy, Envy, and the Nature of Good and Evil | Lex Fridman Podcast #357, and Dr. Paul Conti: Therapy, Treating Trauma & Other Life Challenges | Huberman Lab Podcast #75.