Dr. Nicole LePera

And I've been able to get more comfortable with speaking publicly, understanding that once you do share something, you do open yourself up for interpretation.

And what keeps me going is the people from around the world who are gaining benefit or having a new awareness about why they're stuck and who are gaining the tools to finally create new actions.

I mean, this has now become what I would describe as a purpose, a passion, you know, my why in life.

There was a time, again, back when I started that I was so in survival mode, still coming out of childhood trauma and exhaustion and burnout and performing for worthiness that...

I actually didn't think I had that.

I would hear people, you know, leaders, people that were successful, talk about feeling purposeful and passionate and being driven by the inner kind of energy to produce.

And I just didn't have that.

But now it has become what motivates me every day, though, of course, you know, the more reach there is, the more

opinions, interpretation, challenge, but also opportunity.

I'm so grateful that I have endless opportunity now to write books, to do things in pursuit of sharing this passion, but I have to be aware that there's still

a me with individual needs and an energy that runs out and I need to be make sure that I'm grounded and clear in my flow so that when I go contribute that I'm doing so from that inner place as opposed to because I was given the opportunity and I'm afraid to say no or because that's where I gain worthiness.

So I always am kind of trying to bridge that I still have those habits

And yet I still want to make an impact.

And so it's a daily conversation of how to be in that middle ground where I'm doing so because I want to give as opposed to gain something.

Speaking honestly, there was a time where I would always, right before I would go to answer a question, I would have the moment, much like a therapist, where I would kind of play, okay, how am I going to say this?

How could this land?

What could someone do or misinterpret from this?

And even that short moment of pause

takes me from flow, right?

Would result in the beginning of me maybe watering down something or dancing around a point that I've wanted to make.