Dr. Nicole LePera

We start to learn our emotional world.

Then we can be authentic, so to speak.

And then finally, kind of the last kind of sphere is almost returning to the deepest sense of belonging.

Right.

The sense that, in my opinion, at least we are all connected to something, someone greater than ourselves.

But also you spoke to something personal.

Earlier, very wisely, it's also returning to our inherent joy, our creativity, our purpose and our passion.

So, of course, right, there's kind of very generally speaking, that's kind of areas of development that we evolve through.

And of course, maybe listeners like, well, I didn't have safety and security.

What do you mean boundaries limits?

My goal then is to present a framework of what I call reparenting or simply stepping in, creating new habits and patterns, maybe being the steady, calming, nurturing caregiver that we didn't have, maybe creating limits or boundaries where we didn't have them, maybe for the first time learning how to reconnect with our own emotions so that we can be emotionally intimate with other people.

maybe taking off the masks of identity, not being our authentic self, instead being the overachiever or the caregiver so that we can express who we really are, then allowing us to be purposeful and passionate and joyful and creative.

And again, all of these things that I think we inherently are, but again, based on what was happening or not happening around us, including the people and relationships, a lot of us kind of haven't developed enough

the security that we need it to be those things.

Though again, through reparenting, we can create that now.

Yeah.

It's landing so much.

I have chills.

And of course, so I'm very generally speaking, but as you'll see in the book, I even map this on to development of certain brain areas, right, from our nervous system's ability to regulate, to create the safety and security some of us are lacking, to our limbic systems, our mirror neurons.

And so I'm mapping, again, the body foundationally because it's nice to know and understand what I just said, but my goal is to give the tools necessary