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

All of the adaptations are meant to serve us.

future generations, right?

With the idea that future generations will be born into the same environment, right?

So it would make sense if our ancestors maybe dealt with kind of food shortage.

And there's a ton of research on this, that epigenetic changes to kind of hold onto fat and use energy in a particular way.

And of course I'm simplifying all of this.

That was needed in that generation because food was inconsistent or completely absent.

So assuming, right, as was the case generations ago when we didn't have airplanes, we couldn't fly to the other side of the world and geographically change our location, future generations were born into that same environment.

So the likelihood that they have an inconsistent access or a absence of food was large.

So the changes that kind of happen epigenetically

would set those future generations up for survival.

Though things have categorically changed, right?

Very few of us find ourselves in the exact same environments as our ancestors, yet these changes are quite literally wired into the way our nervous systems function, as well as the way our cells turn on and off in reaction.

So many of us are left again with this function that didn't even originate maybe in our kind of immediate family homes, but might've originated generations before

But again, because neuroplasticity exists through consistent new choices, we can change even down to the way our genes fire and function for future generations.

With awareness, you know, becomes the ability to make choice.

So at whatever moment or for whatever reason, I think sometimes suffering and life being intolerable, like we need to change things.

At whatever point in life that that happens, the second we become aware, whether it's, I don't want to continue to live like this and or aware of our patterns, we give ourself then the opportunity to make new choices.

So no, I don't think that there ever is a

too late.

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