Dr. Nicole LePera

I think that giving words to what happened, having a safe place where we feel comfortable enough to share our story, past, present, future, whatever it is, and have that in a safe relationship.

I think a ton of research into what therapy is the best right to do to actually create change.

It's actually not landed on a type of therapy at all.

It's landed on

the relationship, the safety, the space to give words to our story.

Because for a lot of us, we've never had that.

We haven't had safety.

We didn't feel comfortable enough to share and the therapy and the talking aspect of it, right?

We're giving words, aliveness.

We have someone hearing, receiving, hopefully not judging what it is that we're sharing.

And for a lot of us, that can be a healing component.

Though when we really understand where trauma lives, it doesn't live in logic and understanding.

While that's a part of our journey, it lives in our body.

It lives in the habits and reactions that we've been kind of speaking to throughout.

And so for some of us, right, and there is now research on this, that by just talking about trauma,

things that hurt us.

Anytime we think a thought, we inspire an emotion.

The more you think upsetting thoughts, anxiety-provoking thoughts, often, of course, they're driven by anxiety in our body, the more we're going to stay stuck in that emotion.

It's why the mind is so powerful, that we can think something and then we feel as if we're living it in that moment.

So, of course, right, if we're going week after week or however frequency it is and we're talking about all the things that are hurting us, then we are continuing to keep that alive in our body.