How To Do The Work

Nicole LePera

  • First published 2019
  • 320 pages
  • English
Many individuals find themselves repeating familiar, unfulfilling patterns, operating on autopilot, and struggling with persistent emotional and physical challenges. Dr. Nicole LePera, a clinical psychologist, offers a framework for self-healing by integrating psychological insights with holistic approaches, recognizing the interconnectedness of the mind, body, and soul. This method provides a guide to understanding how adverse experiences and unresolved past traumas, particularly from childhood, contribute to current self-sabotaging behaviors and dysregulation.

"How to Do the Work" presents practical tools and exercises designed to cultivate self-awareness, identify deeply ingrained core beliefs, and establish healthy boundaries. Readers learn to consciously address their past, break free from cycles of codependency and emotional immaturity, and develop new, intentional habits. This empowers individuals to engage in their own transformative journey, fostering emotional resilience and enabling them to create a more authentic, vibrant, and joyful life.
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Mostly loved as an accessible trauma primer with exercises, but criticized as shallow, repetitive and lacking science.

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Beginners to trauma healingFans of holistic self-helpJournaling and inner-child work fans
  • Includes exercises
  • Accuracy disputed
  • Good for beginners
  • Relies on anecdotes
  • Little new for experts

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