Podcast 471: How to find your self again after trauma

CLEANING UP YOUR MENTAL MESS with Dr. Caroline Leaf

Dr. Caroline Leaf

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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SHOW DESCRIPTION: In this podcast I talk to holistic psychologist and best-selling author ⁠Nicole LePera ⁠about finding your authentic self after trauma, identifying and unlearning harmful habits, and so much more! ⁠

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

1:54 Nicole’s amazing work

4:19 Social media & therapy

6:28 Nicole’s new book How to Meet Your Self

8:00 How the past affects our present

10:14 Why it takes time to change past patterns & habits

14:00 The power of the conscious mind

19:33 Getting out of “auto-pilot mode”

26:10 Learning habits starts in childhood

35:17 Healing religious trauma

36:28 How healing ourselves helps us connect with others

41:50 Why we need to allow ourselves to acknowledge our emotions

45:00 What our need for boundaries tells us about ourselves

50:00 Autonomy versus selfishness

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leith and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.
0:10.9	What is your authentic self and is it possible to find it, especially after trauma?
0:16.9	How do we identify harmful habits and is it possible to fully unlearn them?
0:22.2	Our Instagram, Therapeutic and Social Media self-help gurus doing more harm than good?
0:27.0	Well, in today's podcast, I chat with Dr. Nicola Pereira about these questions and she gives some amazing answers.
0:34.0	Dr. Nicola Pereira is the author of the number one New York Times based setting book, How to Do the Work
0:40.0	and the recently released based setting How to Meet Yourself Workbook.
0:44.0	She is the creator of the self-healers movement and founder of the self-healers circle, the first virtual self-guided healing membership.
0:51.0	We are members in over 100 countries are joining together to heal in community.
0:56.0	She is the host of the weekly ad free podcast, Self-healers soundboard with over 5 million downloads.
1:02.0	So let's dive in.
1:07.0	Dr. Nicola Pereira, oh I love talking to you. This is going to be amazing. This interview, we have such great times talking together.
1:14.0	You surfed with wisdom, so thank you for coming back on my podcast. I'm really on it.
1:18.0	Thank you so much for having me.
1:20.0	Of course. So the last time I spoke to you in transition to another part of the country and now you settled and you've now
1:25.0	written another book and you did so brilliant in your last book. When I first interviewed you Nicole, you know what you were just hit a million followers and now you're close to six million.
1:34.0	So something really cool has happened in your message that well not some you from the beginning.
1:39.0	I mean it's just been a meteoric rise with you from the beginning, but you've touched a chord in people's hearts.
1:44.0	And how would you talk about that? Why do you think this has happened? What is the zeitgeist that you've tapped into?
1:49.0	Because you definitely have. I mean it's just phenomenal.
1:52.0	Yeah, I think if I were to really generalize it, I think what I'm talking to is the universal aspects of our human experience.
1:59.0	And wherever it is that you're living, whatever country it is. And actually at this point in our membership, the self-healer circle, we have more people from outside of the United States as members.
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