How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
by Nicole LePera
View on GoodreadsThe self-sabotaging cycles you keep repeating as an adult may trace back to childhood adversity, and the stress it leaves behind lives in your body, not only your mind. That's LePera's premise, and as a clinical psychologist she sets out a self-directed healing protocol combining mental, physical and spiritual wellness.
Core ideas
- Whole-body effects: Adverse childhood experiences and trauma show up as dysfunction throughout the body, which is why her program doesn't treat them as purely mental.
- Stuck in stress: Lasting stress responses keep people in codependency, emotional immaturity and trauma bonds, repeating the same patterns well into adulthood.
- Heal yourself: Drawing on several scientific fields and healing practices, the protocol aims to help you spot self-sabotaging cycles and work on them on your own.
Published2021
Pages320
ISBN9780063012103
ReadFeb 2023
