Welcome to YAP Formations. A new series brought to you by the YAP media team aimed to help you brighten up your days and boost your self-esteem so you enter the world confident, head up with strong belief in yourself and live your best young and profiting life.

What's a YAP Formation? It's anything that you say that attracts a young and profiting lifestyle so you can be profiting in all aspects of your life, financially, personally, professionally, and even in your relationships.

Consider this series your positivity boost on demand. Replay this episode anytime you want to reset and get in the right mindset for success.

So here's how these episodes will work. I'll first start out with some clips from a past episode to help us get inspired and get in the mood and in the right state of mind to say our affirmations and to feel the power about the exercise we're going to do together at the end of the show.

To conclude the episode will go through an interactive exercise where I'll say a series of affirmations one by one and then you'll repeat them after me. Preferably out loud but in your own mind is okay too.

This week our YAP Formation is inspired by Nicole Moore.

Nicole is a life coach, podcaster and celebrity love expert. She helps highly influential people find their soulmates and uses her growing social media platform to showcase her views and methods on creating love.

She's been featured on Netflix, Forbes, Money magazine, People magazine and Inc. com.

I talked to Nicole back in episode number 102 on how to navigate relationships specifically during the COVID-19 pandemic. And as Valentine's Day quickly approaches, who better to ask about improving your relationships than Nicole?

In this YAP Formations episode, we're going to talk about how to both strengthen your interpersonal relationships and how to heal from your past ones.

After all, it's hard to find the love you're looking for without first healing from the love that hurt you the most.

Our relationship with the concept of love actually begins with our parents. When you were growing up, did you feel loved? Did your parents tell you that they loved you? And if they didn't say it, did they show it?

A 2019 study from Harvard looked into the science behind parental warmth. It found that parents who regularly show their love to their children actually enable their children to succeed.

Parental warmth is positively associated with flourishing in midlife, and it's inversely related to drug use and smoking.

And Valentine's Day is all about spreading love, and that's love to everyone in your life, not just your romantic partner. So a great place to start is spreading the love in your family.

Nicole tells us about how her childhood was affected by her lack of parental affection and how that drove her to pursue the industry of love.

Yeah, it's like the game shows me you guys because this is a time belt as a kid.

So obviously my mom had her own issues, my dad had his own issues. It's not their fault, right? But they did not express, like I didn't hear I love you, but there wasn't affection.

So I literally remember as a child looking around at other families and just thinking like, oh, well, they must have a loving family and we don't.

So I believed as a child that my parents just didn't love me, that they just didn't care about me enough. And of course, I believe that and I could pull stories to prove that.

I'm sure through their lens, they could pull stories to prove that they did, but that doesn't matter.

That's what I was feeling. That's what I was vibrating. And it was a really big core wound for me.

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