How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
by Nicole LePera
View on Goodreads"The Holistic Psychologist" LePera's synthesis of trauma theory, conditioning, inner-child work, and nervous system regulation into a self-directed healing framework.
Core ideas
- Most adult patterns are protective adaptations from childhood — recognizing them as adaptations (rather than character flaws) is the first move.
- Healing is bottom-up: nervous system regulation (breath, movement, somatic) precedes cognitive insight; trying to think your way out of a dysregulated state doesn't work.
- Inner-child work as deliberate re-parenting — meeting needs that weren't met then, by you, now.
Published2021
Pages320
ISBN9780063012103
ReadFeb 2023
