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The Sabrina Zohar Show

194: How To Actually Heal Your Nervous System And Change Your Life w/ Nicole LePera

The Sabrina Zohar Show

Sabrina Zohar

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Why do you overreact in relationships when the situation doesn't match the emotion? Sabrina sits down with Dr. Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist, to break down inner child wounds, how your nervous system stores childhood trauma before you have words to process it, and why certain dating triggers send you spiraling. They dive into emotional attunement, generational trauma, shame, and anxious attachment patterns. Dr. Nicole shares reparenting tools from her new book, Reparenting The Inner Child, including how to regulate your nervous system and stop self-abandoning in relationships. If you've ever said "I had a great childhood" but still struggle with dating anxiety or abandonment fears, this one's for you. If you’re ready to slow down, trust your instincts, and break your old dating patterns, the Healthy Relationship Foundations Course walks you through it step-by-step  HERE! If you’re serious about changing your dating patterns instead of repeating them, the Art of Going Slow course helps you unlearn urgency, regulate your nervous system, and build real connection without rushing, chasing, or abandoning yourself HERE! Get Ad free HERE!Want to work with Sabrina? HERE!Get merch for The Sabrina Zohar Show HERE!Don't forget to follow Sabrina and The Sabrina Zohar Show on Instagram and Sabrina on TikTok! Video now available on YOUTUBE! Please support our sponsors! This episode is sponsored by Betterhelp. Get 10% off your first month of Betterhelp at betterhelp.com/sabrina Go to Quince.com/SABRINA for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. As an exclusive offer, my listeners can get their choice between organic ground beef, chicken breast or shrimp in every box for a year, PLUS $20 off when you go to ButcherBox.com/SABRINA ============================= Chapters: 0:00 Your Reaction Doesn't Match Reality 1:24 Meet Dr. Nicole LePera 3:16 What Is Your Inner Child 5:07 "I Had a Perfect Childhood" 10:00 How Your Nervous System Stores Trauma 14:02 Nature vs Nurture in Attachment 17:32 Body Signals of Inner Child Wounds 19:59 Why Dating Triggers Hit So Hard 23:47 Shame and Self-Sabotage in Love 29:19 Recognizing Triggers in Real Time 36:15 What Reparenting Looks Like 40:44 Nervous System Regulation Tools 46:03 Inner Child Patterns in Relationships 53:24 Healing Is Not a Destination Disclaimer: The Sabrina Zohar Show, formerly known as Do The Work, is not affiliated with A.Z & associates LLC in any capacity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Have you ever had something happen in your life where you react in a way that doesn't make any sense based on the situation?

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Right?

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The pinch just doesn't match the ouch.

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Somebody says something to you and next thing you know you're screaming at them, you're cursing them out, you're losing your fucking marbles. Well, that doesn't just happen by accident. That's something called your inner child. Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Sabrina Zohar show. My name is Sabrina Zohar, and I am your host. Welcome back, We've got such a special episode today. I have been counting down the days. Dr. Nicole O'Perra is in the studio with us. Her new book came out, reparenting your inner child. And I am so excited and grateful to have her. We have the best conversation. We give you guys some tools and things that you can actually implement. And as always, guys, thank you. Thank you for being here. Don't forget, rate review the show, leave a comment, engage with the community, let me know what you guys think, whatever you guys want. Don't forget, if you want to work one-on-one, ask a question, join one of the courses. Everything is at Sabrina Zohar.com available in the link in show notes. Same with ad-free, whatever you guys want. We got you.

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And if it's just to be here, thank you so much for tuning in. All right, babes. Without further ado, let's get right on into it, shall we? I'm so excited to have you in the studio. So you and I get to connect today because not only do you have a book that's coming out that I'm beyond excited to talk about, but you were just here, and I love you and your work so much, so I'm beyond

1:46.4

grateful that you're here. And before we get into all the fun, could you please share a little bit more about yourself to the audience so that may not know who you are? Absolutely. I'm super excited to finally be in person. It feels like so long ago we first connect it. So I'm Dr. Nicole LaPera, the holistic

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psychologist. I really started to speak more, I think, globally when I was several years into

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my practice of clinical psychology. I was living in Philadelphia at the time. I got all of the

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certifications to do the thing of therapy. And I was finding that I was several years

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into pretty dedicated work with a lot of my clients. And I started to feel really disempowered.

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And I started to continue to hear an experience in my own life, just lots of feelings of stuckness,

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a lot of awareness. And I think a lot of us are coming with more and more awareness with all the

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conversations that people like yourself are having. Yet I continue to hear an inability to change.

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So feeling very similar in my own life, having what I thought was all of the tools, all of the

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