If you've seen the Oscar-winning movie The Wolf of Wall Street, then you'll know exactly who today's guest is.

Portrayed by actress Marga Robbie, I was so excited to speak with the real women of the story about her healing journey after being married to the infamous Wall Street wolf Jordan Belford in the public eye.

Her name is Dr. Nadine McAluso, and she's since become a licensed marriage and family therapist featured on TV and all over the news, and now helps other people heal from trauma bonds and narcissistic relationships.

We talk everything about love, her new relationship, her new book, the Hollywood movie, and even Italian pizza.

So stay tuned after the intro.

Hi, I'm Gloria Zhang and after 10 years of struggling in toxic relationships, I attracted

the love of my life by healing my inner child. This podcast is your weekly dose of my expertise

as a therapist and dating relationship coach for

high achievers. Learn tips to overcome low self-worth, emotional baggage, and childhood trauma

so that you too can step into your power and attract the love you desire. Welcome to the

Inner Child podcast. Okay, we are live. Welcome, Nadine, to the podcast. I'm so

excited to chat with you today. Oh, thank you, Gloria. Thank you for having me on. Same here. Yes.

And where are you tuning in from? So I am tuning in from Long Island, New York, quite a ways away. That's right. I have been to

New York some years ago and hopefully after the borders work out, I'll come for a visit at some

point. Please come visit. I would love that. Well, Nadine, we're going to be talking about some

topics that really interests a lot of our listeners.

And so would you please share with us exactly what you do and what you help your clients with?

Sure. So I'm a licensed marriage and family therapist. And I own a private psychotherapy practice now for about 12 years. God, I'm getting old.

And then I got my PhD in somatic psychotherapy, which really is a fancy way to say that I include

the body in the therapy sessions, like even as I'm talking now, right? Gest gesture, tone of voice, all of those sorts of things.

So the whole person is taken into account. And the way that I work is I did my dissertation on

developmental or relational trauma or some people call it attachment trauma. And we know how that greatly affects who we think we are.

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