Episode #236: The Holistic Psychologist on Mental Health, Kids & Parenting

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest this week is Dr. Nicole LePera.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I've got my dear friend, Dr. Nicole LePera, The Holistic Psychologist, to do a dive into our personal and professional experiences in the world of mental health, kids, and parenting.  We talk about how we've come to understand mental health diagnoses and treatment differently over time, what we need to do to improve mental health for ourselves and children, how we can be better parents and to ourselves, and much more! When the two of us get together, there's never a shortage of topics so we go into other favorites, like what it means to be a conscious participant, dealing with information overload vs. implementation gap, the concept of reparenting, and of course, her new workbook (which is amazing!),</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3Ba7t7U" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Meet Your Self</span></em></a><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dr. Nicole LePera is trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University, the New School for Social Research and the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. She's the author of the #1 NYT bestselling book,</span> <a href= "https://amzn.to/3XYDnOv" target="_blank" rel= "noopener"><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to Do the Work</span></em></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, and the podcast host of SelfHealers Soundboard. As a clinical psychologist in private practice, Dr. Nicole often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients and herself, she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual health that equips people with the tools necessary to heal themselves. Dr. Nicole is the creator of the SelfHealers movement, where people from around the world are joining together in a community to take healing into their own hands. In 2019, she founded SelfHea