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How to Do the Work

 — Dr. Nicole LePera

Introduction – 

The Call to Self-Healing

• Gist: Healing begins by recognizing patterns and taking radical responsibility for your life.
• Bullets:
  
• Traditional mental health often separates mind/body/spirit → true healing needs integration.
• Self-healing doesn’t mean doing it alone, but reclaiming agency.
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• Quote: “You are both the source of your pain and the source of your healing.”
• Tagline: Awareness is the first act of self-healing.

Chapter 1 – 

The Conscious Self

• Gist: Learn to step out of autopilot and develop conscious awareness.
• Bullets:
  
• Most of life is run by unconscious conditioning.
• Mindfulness helps us reclaim choice.
• Awareness ≠ judgment.
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• Quote: “We cannot heal what we are unaware of.”
• Tagline: Wake up to your patterns.

Chapter 2 – 

Trauma Body

• Gist: Trauma lives in the body and shapes how we respond to life.
• Bullets:
  
• Childhood wounds → adult coping mechanisms.
• Nervous system dysregulation creates survival responses.
• Body-based practices (breath, grounding) are essential.
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• Quote: “The body keeps score of every unprocessed wound.”
• Tagline: Your body remembers—teach it safety again.

Chapter 3 – 

The Power of Belief

• Gist: Core beliefs form early and filter our reality.
• Bullets:
  
• Beliefs shape perceptions, relationships, self-worth.
• Limiting beliefs keep us in cycles.
• Repetition and conscious practice rewrite them.
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• Quote: “What you believe, you live.”
• Tagline: Challenge the story, rewrite the script.

Chapter 4 – 

Becoming Aware of Your Patterns

• Gist: Our childhood conditioning repeats itself unconsciously in adulthood.
• Bullets:
  
• Recognize emotional triggers.
• Observe relational dynamics.
• Awareness → choice → change.
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• Quote: “What is unconscious becomes fate until made conscious.”
• Tagline: Patterns are learned; they can be unlearned.

Chapter 5 – 

Reparenting Yourself

• Gist: Give yourself the love, boundaries, and safety you didn’t get as a child.
• Bullets:
  
• Self-parenting = self-discipline + self-compassion.
• Create new routines of safety.
• Build emotional regulation skills.
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• Quote: “You become the parent your younger self always needed.”
• Tagline: Heal the child, free the adult.

Chapter 6 – 

Boundaries

• Gist: Boundaries protect your energy and foster healthy relationships.
• Bullets:
  
• Lack of boundaries → resentment, burnout.
• Saying “no” is self-love, not selfishness.
• Boundaries require practice and consistency.
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• Quote: “Boundaries are the language of self-worth.”
• Tagline: Protect your peace, honor your needs.

Chapter 7 – 

Emotional Maturity

• Gist: True healing requires emotional regulation and accountability.
• Bullets:
  
• Learn to pause before reacting.
• Take responsibility without blame.
• Emotional intelligence grows through practice.
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• Quote: “Maturity is the ability to pause between feeling and action.”
• Tagline: Respond, don’t react.

Chapter 8 – 

The Power of Daily Practice

• Gist: Healing happens in small, consistent steps, not overnight.
• Bullets:
  
• Habits rewire the brain and body.
• Rituals (breathwork, journaling, movement) create change.
• Consistency > intensity.
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• Quote: “Healing is the daily choice to show up for yourself.”
• Tagline: Tiny steps, lasting transformation.

Chapter 9 – 

Conscious Relationships

• Gist: Healing changes how we connect with others.
• Bullets:
  
• Old wounds often dictate partner choices.
• Conscious relationships = honesty, empathy, boundaries.
• Healing yourself shifts relational patterns.
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• Quote: “The relationship with yourself sets the tone for all others.”
• Tagline: Heal within, love without.

Conclusion – 

The Journey of Becoming

• Gist: Healing is lifelong, nonlinear, and deeply rewarding.
• Bullets:
  
• Self-healing is a daily practice, not a destination.
• Progress > perfection.
• Your healing ripples out to others.
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• Quote: “Doing the work is the gift you give to yourself—and the world.”
• Tagline: Your healing is your legacy.

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