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

was the emotional attunement that quite literally my developing nervous system needed to navigate from daily stress to even overwhelming stressful experiences that I lived.

So I think when we now have an understanding of what trauma actually is, and we have an awareness that very few of our parents had the tools or the resources they needed from the fact that even...

clinicians in my field, right, who were parenting experts, it took until really the 70s where emotions and the need for that emotional attunement was even acknowledged in the role of parenting, in addition to the fact that, of course, I don't think that many of our past generations of our parents' age had the resources and the support that they themselves needed, and they also did not learn how to navigate emotions in their own childhood.

So that's why I think so many of us are experiencing cycles

of intergenerational trauma that are passed through that now leave us struggling with emotional dysregulation and, of course, a need to, as I talk about, reparent ourself to learn some new tools.

I absolutely think that there's kind of generational shifts that we have seen, some that are in reaction to an awareness that certain things don't work.

And what I mean when I say that is I think sometimes there can be like an overcompensation in an opposite direction that isn't always helpful.

Because, of course, right, children grow up and many of which become parents themselves.

themselves.

And so I think it's that moment where there's a kind of reflection back.

And those of us that had the attuned parent that we needed, maybe we want to repeat some of the things that felt good and supportive about their own kind of relationship with their own parents.

And then many others kind of look back and are like, oh, I don't want to repeat those things.

So I'm going to show up differently.

So I think kind of generationally, we do see shifts

But we don't always necessarily land in a healthier place, right?

So a common example, I think, which is happening is I kind of just referenced emotions weren't in the equation.

We had doctors that were speaking about a cry it out method, right?

This idea that a child can kind of downregulate or soothe themselves.

If you just put them in a room, eventually they'll calm down.

Right.

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