A lot of times I see this idea of consciousness being misinterpreted to mean another version of thinking.

And oftentimes, again, when we're locked in our thinking mind, like you're saying, between my head,

so many of us spend so much time in our thoughts, we don't have that separation.

We think that we are the thoughts that are happening in our thinking mind.

That was Dr. Nicole LaPera. Now, when I look back at a year of podcasting or more, multiple years,

I can't help but say, you know, wow, this particular episode of that. My last conversation with Nicole LaPera was such a

mindblower. So it wasn't that it was unexpected. It was just that was so much value for me personally,

just the awareness that it brought to me that I had to have her back when she announced her newest

work, which is a book called How to Meet

Yourself. And what is especially interesting in today's conversation around her new work

is that we do dig deeper into all kinds of things like our childhood pasts, but it's in a way

that is very accessible. And if you don't think that you need to do work around becoming more present,

as showing up as the human that you want to be, then congratulations.

It sounds like you've got it all figured out.

But today's episode, we do that.

And what Nicole's work is so powerful around is doing this in a kind, gentle, thoughtful, and dare I say, safe way, approachable way, way that a way that doesn't, I don't know, reject any part of ourselves, even the part of ourselves that is sort of scared to admit that it would be helpful if we looked at some of the ways that we operate in the

world and how we might be able to do them better in order to be a better version of ourselves.

So again, if you're not familiar with Dr. Nicole's work, I highly recommend the Instagram

follow. Her handle is the dot holistic, H-O-L-I-S-T-I-C.

I think I spoke that right, dot psychologist.

I mean, I have some friends that their Instagrams grow quickly.

I mean, every time I look, she has another million followers.

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