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We all carry the imprint of our earliest years. Childhood is brief, yet its impact is lifelong. Some parts of us were met with love while other parts were met with silence, criticism, or disapproval. Many of us still protect the parts of ourselves that once felt unsafe.

As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character – shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging. Beneath those reactions lies our inner child, a younger part of us still trying to get its needs met the only way it knows how.

While we can’t change what happened, we can change how it lives within us and impacts our lives today. Cornell-trained holistic psychologist Nicole LePera joins us live in conversation to explain how we can cultivate emotional maturity and regulation to respond calmly instead of reacting, to embrace desire instead of shame, and to question the stories we’ve long believed about who we have to be.