Dr. Nicole LePera

I felt concerned.

I didn't know how other therapists were going to think of me, what the public was going to think of me, sharing these kind of aspects of a new way of working.

And so that resistance was there, though now, yes, I'm able to learn how to speak my truth of what I believe to be true and impactful ways to achieve in a new way.

But I still have not only that

concern around how I will speak and what people will think of what I am saying.

But I also have that overachiever who wants to blow past my limits, say yes when I'm exhausted and I mean no.

So I think this is very kind of emblematic of the inner child that still lives within us.

I was resistant to even sharing what I wanted, even though I did have the desire to help people and now I'm helping people and I still have to watch those old patterns to help people at the cost of my own self.

Absolutely not.

So at the beginning, I think it was around 2018, where I finally allowed her to convince me, okay, I'll start sharing a little bit of my ideas and my journey as a human on social media.

I would have had no idea how great and resounding the resonance would be outside of even, I was living in Philadelphia at the time, operating within a private practice model.

And I had no idea that, you know, within the first year people would be

resonating joining from around the world interested in hearing more and working with me in this new way so but throughout the beginning i mean even learning how to speak on camera put up content was such a big challenge for me i don't care how many times she would say to me i would say something over coffee and she'd be like wow that's like really insightful i think you should share that in a video later your followers want to see you and i say okay

20 minutes, half hour later, she'd pick up the phone.

She'd be like, okay, say what you said to me earlier.

And it was as if my mind went blank.

I had no idea what to say anymore.

Just putting a camera in front of me was near debilitating.

So from the beginning, I've had to work through a lot of my own resistance to being seen, fear of

criticism or being misunderstood.