How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
We all have an intuition, a psychological and spiritual concept that refers to an innate and unconscious wisdom. It’s the evolutionarily driven gut instinct that helped keep us alive throughout human history and still speaks to us; it’s that feeling of the hair on the back of our neck standing up when we walk down a dark alley alone, it’s the deep
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some brain scans reveal that we operate only 5 percent of the day in a conscious state;
Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
It means letting a part of yourself die so that another part of you can be reborn.
Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
I wouldn’t be able to handle all the PR anyway. Like I got overwhelmed by the monthly makeup boxes and felt daunted when I had to sort through them and then I would have to do that for PR and it will never end? Idk what I’ll be but I have the best support with me.
We all carry unresolved trauma. As we’ve seen, it’s not necessarily the severity of the event itself but our response to it that determines the imprint it makes. Resilience is learned through conditioning; if we didn’t see it modeled by our parent-figures when we were young, we may have never learned it. When we do the work of resolving trauma, we
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Trauma’s impact is something we can control.
The placebo effect provides proof that when we believe we are going to get better or feel better, we often do. It’s a testament to the power of the mind to affect the body with mere suggestion.
Nicole LePera • How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
It was impossible for her to get any clarity about what she wanted because she wasn’t tapped into her intuition.
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Signal beneath the noise
The part of you that knows this to be true is your intuition. It has always been there. We have simply developed a habit of not listening to or trusting what it says.
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When our body expects to get better, it sends out messages to start the healing process. Hormones, immune cells, and neurochemicals are all released. The placebo effect provides proof that when we believe we are going to get better or feel better, we often do. It’s a testament to the power of the mind to affect the body with mere suggestion. But
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I looked around me—really looked, as if for the first time. It’s not an exaggeration to say that every single one of my clients who came to me for psychological treatment also had underlying physical symptoms. Long out of school, I started to ask new questions: Why did so many of my clients suffer from digestive issues, ranging from irritable bowel
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