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

And I lived in this state for a very long time.

People would call me stoic.

I remember thinking like I would get kind of reflected back to me.

Oh, where are you?

You're numb.

You know, my first boyfriend, I remember, told me that I felt emotionally unavailable and I was very confused at what he was describing me as.

And that is, again, I did not yet have the language for the reality that that I was.

I was so far away from my own emotions.

It doesn't mean that they weren't happening in my body.

But again, my best protection was to distance myself, which is where all those habits of focusing on achievement, focusing on everything else outside of me became the quickest way away from all of the emotions in my body.

So I just want to make sure for listeners that we're understanding the slight difference there of saying, oh, okay, I'm having a feeling and I can choose to

How and when I want to express this feeling is categorically different from I'm so emotionally numb.

And again, if you are in that category, as I once was that I'm completely emotionally numb all around, that is probably again, because that was the best thing that your nervous system could do to protect you from all of the overwhelming emotions and sensations you were feeling.

No, I love it.

I love tennis and I love Federer.

So I was very pleased when you went there.

I was shaking my head and I did not know that either.

So that's a fun fact because he does look very calm and cool on the court from when I've seen him.

I think the work begins, again, as we continue to reiterate in awareness, but also in shifting our relationship around what is happening, right?

So what I mean, the reason I'm often giving, right, the neurobiology, the reason the productive adaptations of what's happening, right, is so that in real time, we can understand that what is happening, whether it's the over or under reaction, or maybe the whole identity as the overachiever that we continue to play, right, with unrealistic standards on ourself that

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