Nicole LePera, Ph.D.

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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 643: Healing inner-child wounds you didn’t know you had | Nicole LePera, Ph.D. (The Holistic Psychologist) · 29 Mar 2026 podcast

So most of the wounds that we carry developed in relation to whatever caregiver was most present to us.

So that's then why right somewhere down the line, typically the issue or cause of concern that I'll hear from at this point, my near global community will be kind of relationally based.

having this problem or that problem.

Again, I'm in a relationship, but I feel alone.

Or I'm in a relationship that's really kind of traumatic or dysfunctional in a certain way.

Help me.

I don't know what to do or if it's even possible to change.

And I think what I am now seeing, maybe this is a better, more specific way to answer the question, as these conversations become more prolific, right, as you're sitting across from me and your community is listening to me, right, talking about early childhood relationships, I think that is...

parental relationships are now being more frequently mentioned in the complaint concern around relationships because then that's where the core wound existed.

And as we become more aware, it's so natural that we want to go back to our parents if they're still living and we want to tell them what didn't work, what hurt us, and we want to shift the dynamic there.

And of course, it's

greatly challenging for many different reasons not only because these are the relationships where their deepest wounds developed but because a lot of our parents again are from generations where you know some of which we're saying us asking them to take accountability that might not always sit comfortably and might not elicit the reaction that we want to get when we go back to parents to share with them you know how our experience of childhood was and what we maybe could have used a little more of or a

And then I think commonly what happens, and this happens across relationships, but I think particularly in parental ones, is we want our parent to change so very badly.

And then the question becomes, well, how do we continue to navigate a relationship where we can't control or demand someone to change?

The only power truly that we have to change is how we relate to our parent.

But I think a lot of us have that childlike tendency.

part of us, right, still that just desperately wants to be unconditionally loved and seen by our parents.

And the reality of it is not not many, not all of our parents are going to be able to offer that to us.

So I will speak from my lived experience with my mother, who I've now lost.

It was a little over five years ago.

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