Hi, I'm Dr. Caroline Leith and welcome to my podcast, Cleaning Up the Mental Mace.

What is your authentic self and is it possible to find it, especially after trauma?

How do we identify harmful habits and is it possible to fully unlearn them?

Our Instagram, Therapeutic and Social Media self-help gurus doing more harm than good?

Well, in today's podcast, I chat with Dr. Nicola Pereira about these questions and she gives some amazing answers.

Dr. Nicola Pereira is the author of the number one New York Times based setting book, How to Do the Work

and the recently released based setting How to Meet Yourself Workbook.

She is the creator of the self-healers movement and founder of the self-healers circle, the first virtual self-guided healing membership.

We are members in over 100 countries are joining together to heal in community.

She is the host of the weekly ad free podcast, Self-healers soundboard with over 5 million downloads.

So let's dive in.

Dr. Nicola Pereira, oh I love talking to you. This is going to be amazing. This interview, we have such great times talking together.

You surfed with wisdom, so thank you for coming back on my podcast. I'm really on it.

Thank you so much for having me.

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

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.

So something really cool has happened in your message that well not some you from the beginning.

I mean it's just been a meteoric rise with you from the beginning, but you've touched a chord in people's hearts.

And how would you talk about that? Why do you think this has happened? What is the zeitgeist that you've tapped into?

Because you definitely have. I mean it's just phenomenal.

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.

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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