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 I think those markers, kind of the oversizedness of the reaction will often indicate to us and the lack of control, I should say, within the reaction that happens or the behavioral pattern.

I think that is often a marker that that is dating to an earlier time because quite literally what's happening in the body is we are flooded by emotions from an earlier time that limit then our choices in response.

Emotional dysregulation and or emotional flooding.

Again, that's what is the scientific term right for these oversized reactions.

And I'm speaking to that because I really want to emphasize the physiology when we're in a flooded moment is real, right?

We might have people or

or even ourself at a later time, like looking at us wondering, well, what's wrong?

It's not that big of a deal in that moment.

Though again, according to our physiology, it is absolutely that big of a deal.

We are overwhelmed with neurotransmitters, with hormones, with a nervous system that's now locked into fight or flight.

And so in those moments, what we are dealing with in our body, even though logically it might not look like or be that big of a deal, in our body, it absolutely 100% is.

I think for a long time, and thankfully, the definition of trauma has transitioned from a label that we used to apply to an event that would cross a certain threshold.

Typically, the kind of more traditional instances of abuse or neglect would fall into that category.

And now that we understand the really foundational role that our nervous system plays in our ability to regulate or cope with from our everyday experiences to our more

stressful, traumatic based experiences, we now understand trauma isn't just what happened to us.

It is more so about the support that we may or may not have had to navigate the emotional fallout of what has happened to us.

And so I think a lot of us, especially me, when I look back to my childhood, I had an intact family.

I had two parents who were physically present.

My mom was who was in care of me and my siblings.

Yet what was absent was

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