Dr. Nicole LePera

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.

And if we're doing that, because for a lot of us, that's a piece of our journey is having that space once a week or however, if you can afford it and have the access to professionals to help in a supportive way, we might do that.

but this is what kind of brought me into this holistic model, then the question is, well, what's happening on all of those hours outside of here, right?

Do I have the tools to regulate, to create a new emotional response in real time?

And so I think that's where therapy or any sort of coach or self-help enhancement journey becomes most impactful, is when we bridge that gap, when we understand that understanding, insight, talking about things is part of it,

So feeling differently, producing a new response, regulation where there was once dysregulation, that's where change actually happens.

And those are the moments that we carry with us outside of those more contained therapeutic context.

It honors the gap between the mind and the body.