How to Meet Your Self Quotes

“The reality is, most of who you are and what you do is determined by your past, not by your conscious choices today.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“These patterns of reactivity and unhelpful habits are not who you are and are instead a product of what you experienced.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“An intention is a purpose or goal that you’ve chosen to experience. It’s an awareness of our state-of-consciousness and the forethought that allows us to become active participants in the way we show up in our life.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“Under this framework, trauma itself is no longer defined solely by the type of event we experience but instead as the impact (specifically to our nervous systems) that results from being overwhelmed and under-supported in the face of all types of overwhelming experiences.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“Social anxiety is actually a symptom or message from our mind and body. Because so many of us have experienced hurt and pain in our past relationships, it makes sense that we could feel on edge, shaky, sick to our stomach, or unable to think in new social situations. What we experience as anxiety is the product of our mind and body saying, “This is new, and I want us to be careful because in the past people have shown us that we aren’t safe with them.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“they are simply information we picked up in our earliest years, from adults who were doing the best they could with the level of awareness and tools they had modeled to them in the environments and circumstances in which they lived.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“When we show up differently, so do the relationships and world around us. When we change ourselves, we change our world.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“Research consistently shows that being surrounded by nature for as little as twenty minutes can lower stress hormones. Even being in the sun for a few minutes can help increase serotonin and dopamine, chemicals that play a role in our feelings of well-being.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“Using your senses helps to ground you, or to shift your attention away from your thinking mind to what’s happening in your body or in your surroundings. This can be incredibly helpful when your thoughts are causing stress or emotional overwhelm.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“By learning how to intentionally change the way we breathe, we can teach our body that we are safe.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“When we don’t feel safe because of current circumstances, or because of trauma that continues to live in our body, we are not able to hear the pings from our authentic Self. Consistently accessing this safe space within will help you reconnect with this deepest part of you.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“I believe a new paradigm is coming to mental health, one that assures us that there is nothing inherently wrong with any of us. The truth is you are resilient, capable, and possess limitless potential, and through this work, you’re going to become an active participant in accessing those capabilities.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

“Dissociation was my learned way of coping and is a reason that as an adult, I actually have very few childhood memories. Escaping my body was a safe way to protect myself from experiences that felt too overwhelming for me as a child.”
― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change

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― Nicole LePera, How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery – A Roadmap to Break Cycles of Pain and Create Lasting Change