643: Healing inner-child wounds you didn’t know you had | Nicole LePera, Ph.D. (The Holistic Psychologist)

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🗓️ 29 March 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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"Trauma isn't just what happened to us. It's more so about the support we may or may not have had to navigate the emotional fallout of what happened." Nicole LePera, Ph.D., is the creator of the worldwide @theholisticpsychologist movement, and the author of multiple bestselling books including How to Do the Work and her newest, Reparenting the Inner Child. She was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University and the New School for Social Research and studied at the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. Her work has reached tens of millions of people on social media, who are waking up to the idea that healing doesn't happen in a therapist's office alone. 00:00 — How to recognize your inner child 04:05 — Redefining childhood trauma 06:09 — How parenting has shifted over time 10:00 — Safety as a foundation 14:30 — Why children internalize a parent’s anger 18:10 — How ownership & awareness can lead to reparenting 20:21 — Epigenetics: when the trauma didn’t start with you 22:55 — Why insight alone doesn’t create change 24:19 — Embracing discomfort & developing resilience 26:01 — Navigating difficult relationships 29:53 — What acceptance actually looks like 37:03 –– Emotional dysregulation & numbness 40:16 — What you can do to start healing right now Find Nicole LePera on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/the.holistic.psychologist/ Buy her book here: https://a.co/d/04SVp4tW We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.0	or personality. But what if some of the traits we're most proud of are survival strategies
1:10.0	you develop before you even knew you were surviving.
1:13.2	Today's guest is Dr. Nicole LaPara, also known as the holistic psychologist on social media.
1:19.2	She is the author of multiple best-selling books, including How to Do the Work, and her newest
1:24.1	reparenting the inner child. Her work has reached tens of millions of people who are
1:28.6	waking up to the idea that healing doesn't happen in the therapist's office alone. It happens in the
1:33.4	small daily choices we make to show up differently. Nicole brings something rare to the space,
1:38.8	the science to back up the feeling that something from your past is still running the show and a practical path forward.
1:46.1	This one hit close to home for me. It was fascinating. I think you're really going to like it.
1:51.3	Let's get to it. So what's a behavior that us adults think is, you know, just my personality, but in reality, it's our
2:04.7	inner child. And there's a need that needs to be met. I think many behaviors end up
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