Dr. Nicole LePera

I was like, let me start to research and read and explore what I'm missing.

And

I was missing the body.

So holistic psychology is kind of what I've adapted as the model of, I think, the way we need to shift the field into, which doesn't just overemphasize the mind.

It understands the body, our nervous system, again, our earliest environments and how that actually neurobiologically created patterns wired into us, all of which are changeable.

Science now shows that it blows my mind that there was a time in the field where we thought once our brain was developed, that that was it.

that there was no changing.

We now know that we maintain the ability to change or neuroplasticity throughout our lives.

So that's what holistic psychology is, means to me.

It's bridging that gap, understanding the body's role, understanding, of course, the hardware that we're currently operating with, but giving us new options, new choices so that we can create new habits and quite literally transformation from the body up.

It's so funny, I love that.

While I do love Costa Rica and I would love to get my way back there, I actually, I speak more toward daily things that we could do.

I am not admittedly someone who has an active kind of consistent practice of anything.

I don't have the thing I do at the gym every day.

I don't have the yoga practice that I rely on.

My model is more our body is the holder of the wisdom.

So it's a model that's based in awareness where I understand that I spent and I still at times spend not much time in my body at all.

I think my way.

I analyze my way through life.

I worry about what other people want and need instead of dropping in and saying,