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  • Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
  • Written by: Dr. Nicole LePera
  • Narrated by: Courtney Patterson
  • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (334 ratings)

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How to Do the Work

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From Dr. Nicole LePera, creator of "the holistic psychologist"—the online phenomenon with more than two million Instagram followers—comes a revolutionary approach to healing that harnesses the power of the self to produce lasting change.

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy. Wanting more for her patients—and for herself—she began a journey to develop a united philosophy of mental, physical and spiritual wellness that equips people with the interdisciplinary tools necessary to heal themselves. After experiencing the life-changing results herself, she began to share what she'd learned with others—and soon "The Holistic Psychologist" was born.

Now, Dr. LePera is ready to share her much-requested protocol with the world. In How to Do the Work, she offers both a manifesto for SelfHealing as well as an essential guide to creating a more vibrant, authentic, and joyful life. Drawing on the latest research from a diversity of scientific fields and healing modalities, Dr. LePera helps us recognize how adverse experiences and trauma in childhood live with us, resulting in whole body dysfunction—activating harmful stress responses that keep us stuck engaging in patterns of codependency, emotional immaturity, and trauma bonds. Unless addressed, these self-sabotaging behaviors can quickly become cyclical, leaving people feeling unhappy, unfulfilled, and unwell. 

In How to Do the Work, Dr. LePera offers listeners the support and tools that will allow them to break free from destructive behaviors to reclaim and recreate their lives. Nothing short of a paradigm shift, this is a celebration of empowerment that will forever change the way we approach mental wellness and self-care.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Dr. Nicole LePera (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

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Don’t buy if you are anti-diet / have ED

She preaches a lot of diety stuff. Like intermittent fasting, categorizing bad vs good foods etc. I wish she just didn’t go into the diet BS. To me just felt like another “white-wellness” book.

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Highly recommend

My therapist recommended this book. I blew her off at first because self help books seemed tacky to me and many have failed me. This book gave me a different perspective and was very relatible. I'm glad I gave it a chance.

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Wonderful book. Except chapter five.

This book was phenomenal. The only issue I had was chapter five, if you are recovering from body image issues I’d say just skip over it. I felt the knowledge shared was intended well but I believe there are contradicting theories in regards to what was said. Overall would highly recommend, I felt the rest of the book held invaluable information and helps explain things in a palpable way.

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Choose This

This book came to me exactly when I needed it and was ready to receive it. Doing the work is not an easy task, but this book is supportive and the teachings are easy to relate to. Highly recommended!

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A must Read for anyone !!

I have read a lot of books about the topics covered in this one, but these books were more for counselors, psychologists, and other mental health workers. This book is really targeted at anyone looking to take charge of their well-being. She explains a lot of the new research in simple easy to understand information accompanied by examples from her life and her client. I highly recommend this book, and already offered it to a dear friend of mine, I really hope this is the beginning of a paradigm shift in the mental health field.

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Self-Healing Is Possible!

Thank you Dr.LePera for guiding me in this insightful journey infused with Spirit, your book described my experience so perfectly and brought many realizations that have helped me to change my life and move farther forward on my path to healing than ever before; you have given me hope for the future, your book truly changed my life for the better and I am so grateful to you for following your intuition, putting your inspiration in to the collective consciousness, helping me to move forward in this neverending journey of self-healing and deepening my expression of my authentic self more every day. With Love, sending you Wild Blessings

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Insightful And Easy To Understand

This book is full of wisdom and opportunities to reflect on the areas of your life in which you may need to heal from. The chapters on the inner child and trauma bonds were extremely fascinating to me. What I love most about this book is that it’s very easy to understand, it’s not just a step by step self help book nor is it all full of psychology jargon. It really makes you think!

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Excellent and well researched material!

I found the material in this book easy to understand and also it provided helpful ways to deal with trauma!

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So good! All the tools for lasting change!

Loved it! This book contains all the tools needed to make lasting positive life changes!

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Inspiring

This book has been on my list for the longest time. I finally had the opportunity to absorb Dr. Nicole's wisdom; it could not have come at a better time in my life. Every chapter felt as if she wrote this specifically for me. If you, too, are healing or considering healing, I highly recommend this phenomenal book.

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  • 2021-07-22

Mindfulness advertisement

My therapist recommended this book so I decided to give it a chance. I enjoyed how the author took a scientific approach to her concepts, but by about chapter four I realized that the author started to repeat themselves about how their life was falling apart before practicing these concepts and it started to feel more like advertisement rather than a self-help book. I kept waiting eagerly to get to the special activities that could help me achieve the level of change the author talked about, but with each chapter I felt more and more disappointed. This book is nothing but advertisement for the mindfulness movement and offers little insight into how to change your life from a state of trauma to a state of inner peace.
The book’s argument is trauma is completely normal and unavoidable and the only way to overcome it is to become aware of yourself and make new habits that support healthy behaviors. It’s what therapists wish they could tell their clients who complain about the same problems and never do anything to change their life story (which funny enough the author talks about this type of client within the first couple of chapters).
The narrator was good at least. She spoke clearly enough to run this book at twice the speed.

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  • Evan Smith
  • 2021-08-05

Good Book But Weirdly Obsessed With Racism

Good book with helpful info but once or twice in each chapter the author insists on veering off path to shoehorn in a sentence about racism. I don't know if the author's large instagram following demands performative statements or if she's simply trying to ride the wave of today's cultural climate but it doesn't fit in with the book's main topic and distracts the reader. However, if you can ignore those parts of the book there's lots of helpful info relating to recognizing the causes of your mental health challenges and learning how to treat them.

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  • Shoe Diva BFF
  • 2021-07-17

Not much grace for parents.

There are some good nuggets in the book, but maybe a better read as a physical book. It was a bit long for me at 9 hours. I was pretty sure by chapter 3 that this author had not raised a child. Giving parenting advice not having raised a child is a bit like teaching someone to drive when you’ve only ever been a passenger. I felt a bit bruised and unforgiven as an average parent.

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  • Curtis Wilson
  • 2021-05-16

Let the Healing Begin

I am a counselor who just started my practice and have been diving into my own process with clients. This book offers so much insight into the work that we all can do within ourselves. I found myself deeply moved and impacted by the book and the journey it has taken me on. Highly recommend!

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  • Amazon Customer
  • 2021-05-09

Thank you God!!

So grateful that the powers that be listened and rereleased this. Sooo much better and now we can actually hear what Nicole is trying to teach!!!!

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  • JARID SHAW
  • 2021-12-13

Was thinking it was different than it turned out to be

I listened to this thinking it was going to be on self improvement and getting out of your own way with childhood trauma.

While those were some of the foundations of this book, I felt she was more so sharing her views on coming out, LGBT community, political and oppression more than “how to do the work”.

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  • DC
  • 2021-05-29

1st audiobook

I bought the physical copy months ago but I kept getting distracted. Audible allowed me to multitask while still healing myself.

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  • KimiB
  • 2021-05-28

Great book for identifying your own trauma bonds

This book is more about the psychology of your trauma and how to access trauma you have shielded out. The book points out things you may not have even identified as trauma which is helpful. I think the negative reviews come from people using the book as a solve all method. It is not that. It is simply a guide. The author gives you writing prompts to access your core beliefs and guidance to change your life narrative. I loved her personal stories as it helped me relate on a personal level. Definitely recommend this book to anyone seeking a self healing journey.

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  • iiPrezidential
  • 2021-05-19

Insightful and Riveting

The narrator vocalized in a way that brought your mind into mentally seeing and living the moments. I found the authorist to be insightful, and peaceful. Love the way she embodied meditation and recognized the revelations in her life path. Many teachable moments are in.this read, along with how to stay in-tune with the current moments. Great read! I too, will be introducing this to my daughter whom, is finishing her licensure to become a Dr. of Psychology as well. Thank you!

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  • Nadine
  • 2021-06-25

This book skimmed the surface. Grateful. MORE!!!

Please keep going Dr. P. This will get us started but there's so so much more to do. I read this right after watching The Wisdom of Trauma and the series of talks surrounding the film. I think they complement each other well. Thank you, Nicole. Your contribution is huge and the cost isn't lost on me.

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