Hi, my name is Melissa Urban, and you're listening to Do The Thing, a

podcast where we explore what's been missing every time you've tried to make a change and make it stick.

Today my guest is Dr. Nicole lepera, also known as the Holistic Psychologist.

I've been following Nicole on Instagram for a very long time, and last season I had her on to talk about boundaries. Today we're here to talk about the various forms of trauma therapy.

A few months ago, after talking about my own trauma on Instagram again, I received a lot of

dams and comments asking how specifically I was able to process and move past my

sexual abuse. I spent some time really thinking about it and realized I actually

used a lot of different therapeutic processes to move through it. Lots of talk therapy,

some body work, energy work, the work of Byron Katie,

but I discovered all of these kind of on my own.

Except for talk therapy, which my parents put me in as a teenager,

I kind of stumbled into the rest of them on my own.

And as a result, my trauma processing and healing took a very long time, like a decade, if not longer.

If I had only had some guidance into the various forms of trauma therapies available,

I may have been able to move through the process more effectively.

Of course, when I was 16, many of these forms of therapy didn't exist or weren't commonly

known.

Today, Dr. Laperra is going to walk us through various forms of trauma therapy, both for the body and the mind.

We'll talk about what trauma is from the big tea to the little tea, which in and of itself may prove the missing piece to help

you take the first step towards getting help.

She'll explain the importance of addressing trauma in the body, not just the mind.

We'll talk about our own experiences of mind-body disconnection after trauma,

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