Dr. Nicole LePera

I didn't have language for why I myself had a

weren't serving me.

So sharing that because as I began to understand why we're stuck, of course, I speak a lot about our body and how these habits are wired into us.

The only way that we've learned how to gain safety and security in our nervous system and continue to repeat them, even when they create dysfunction, I had a lot of knowledge.

And if I'm honest, I was very hesitant to

as I was watching the social media world evolve and people were beginning to share more publicly, there was a part of me, the inner child, who only knew success in this very prescribed way that wasn't used to opening myself up for feedback, being seen in a public way.

So it actually took the support of my partner, who I'm still with on this journey, who is like Nicole.

you have so much to say.

You're really beginning, as I worked holistically now with clients, transform my practice, transform my own life.

She was like, you're finally creating the change that you want to make.

You have something to say.

I think you should maybe bring this message online and share it more publicly.

And if I'm honest, I resisted that because

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.