Reparenting the Inner Child by Dr. Nicole LePera

Reparenting the Inner Child

The New Science of Our Oldest Wounds and How to Heal Them

Dr. Nicole LePera

Flatiron Books · Print & ebook · Forthcoming

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek comes a groundbreaking guide to healing our childhood wounds and rediscovering our full potential As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character - shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging.

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Who it’s for
Dr. Nicole LePera pairs exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections with a framework for inner-child healing.
Themes
inner child healing, emotional maturity, self-integration
Pacing
Reflective

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Do the Work and How to Be the Love You Seek comes a groundbreaking guide to healing our childhood wounds and rediscovering our full potential As adults, we often fall into patterns that feel irrational or out of character - shutting down, lashing out, people-pleasing, or self-sabotaging.

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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. 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. To survive, we learned to adapt - learning to over perform, to hide, or stay small. Most of us made it through with a mix of love and lack. And many of us still protect the parts of ourselves that once felt unsafe. While we can't change what happened, we can change how it lives within us and impacts our lives today. Reparenting the Inner Child offers a clear, compassionate path to self-integration, combining practical exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections to help us create the safety, love, and boundaries we've always needed. Through her holistic framework that models individual development, Dr. LePera explains how we can cultivate the 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. Enlightening, empowering, and clarifying, Reparenting the Inner Child is a book that will stand the test of time as a comprehensive guide for personal development and healing, and a resource that will forever change the way we understand ourselves.

Inner-Child Reparenting

Dr. Nicole LePera pairs exercises, somatic tools, and guided reflections with a framework for inner-child healing.

Come here for

  • Practical exercises and somatic tools
  • Guided reflections on childhood patterns

Expect

  • A focus on emotional regulation and self-integration
  • Questions about old stories, desire, shame, and boundaries

Where it sits

Managing Emotions43%
Trauma Psychology36%
Building Self-Esteem35%

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Publisher categories

  • Dysfunctional Families
  • Building Self-Esteem
  • Managing Emotions
Authors
Dr. Nicole LePera
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Published
Forthcoming
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
inner child healing · emotional maturity · self-integration
Reading lane
Dysfunctional Families