How to Be the Love You Seek

Name: How to Be the Love You Seek
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ISBN: 9780063267756

Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

By Nicole LePera

Nicole LePera applies her holistic psychology framework to relationships, arguing that real change requires working at the level of the body, mind, and heart rather than just behavior. The book guides readers through understanding their embodied self, the neurobiology of trauma bonds, and the conditioned selves—Pleaser, Detacher, Connector, Distractor—that surface under stress. Later chapters address co-regulation, heart consciousness, and how individual healing creates the conditions for genuine interdependence with others.

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Being the love we seek is the greatest and most healing gift we can give to ourselves, those around us in the world we all share.

If we truly want to change our relationships, we have to change our subconscious, which means shifting how we instinctively think, feel and act, regardless of whether it's with new people or those we already know.

Concepts

Conditioned Selves
Four adaptive survival modes (Pleaser, Detacher, Connector, Distractor) that develop in childhood in response to unmet needs, and that drive unconscious patterns in adult relationships.
Trauma Bonds
Emotional attachments formed through cycles of harm and repair, often in early life, that create compulsive attraction to dynamics that recreate original wounds.
Embodied Self
The integrated experience of living in your body rather than from a purely mental perspective, which LePera argues is essential for genuine emotional change.
Heart Consciousness
A state of relating from genuine emotion and compassion rather than from conditioned mental patterns or defensive self-protection.
Co-Regulation
The nervous-system-level process by which two people calm and stabilize each other through close proximity, attunement, and consistent safety.

Chapters

Introduction. You Create Change
Chapter 1. The Power of Your Relationships
Chapter 2. Exploring Your Embodied Self
Chapter 3. Understanding the Neurobiology of Trauma Bonds
Chapter 4. Witnessing Your Conditioned Selves
Chapter 5. Harnessing the Wisdom of Your Body
Chapter 6. Creating Change Through Mind Consciousness
Chapter 7. Unlocking th Power of Your Heart
Chapter 8. Becoming the Love You Seek
Chapter 9. Empowering Your Relationships
Chapter 10. Reconnecting with the Collective
Epilogue. My Heart's Unexpected Truth

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Topics

Holistic Psychology, Interdependence, Codependency, Past Trauma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Avoidance, Childhood Conditioning, Conditioned Selves, Emotionally Unavailable, Childhood Trauma, Trauma Bonds, Past Conditioning, Parent Figure, Attachment Theory, Childhood Needs, Childhood Emotional Neglect, Unmet Emotional Needs, Codependent, Codependency, Stress Response, Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn, Neuroplasticity, Emotional Safety, Embodied Self, My Soul, Hierarchy of Needs, Spiritual Needs, Emotional Needs, Physical Needs, Authentic Self, Healing Your Body, Empowering Your Mind, Body Consciousness, Connector Mode, Distractor Mode, Pleaser Mode, Detacher Mode, Homeostasis, Co-Regulation, Autonomic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Polyvagal Theory, Vagus Nerve, Dorsal Vagal State, Ventral Vagal State, Social Engagement System, Neuroception, Conditioned Selves, Core Abandonment Wounds, Internal Family Systems, IFS, Inner Child, Emotional Invalidation, Projection, Scorekeeping, Avoidance, Deflection, Reticular Activating System, Caretaker, Overachiever, Underachiever, Rescuer, Protectors, Life of the Party, Yes Person, Hero Worshipper, Body Consciousness, Theory of Constructed Emotion, Interoception, Deep Belly Breathing, Wim Hof Method, Self-Regulation, Boundary Setting, Mind Consciousness, Ego Story, Ego Consciousness, Empowerment Consciousness, Heart Consciousness, Heart Rate Variability, HRV, Core Heart Feelings, Pursue-Withdraw Trap, Social Synapse, Neural Synapse, Insecure Attachment, Allostatic Load, Love Languages, Words of Affirmation, Quality Time, Receiving Gifts, Acts of Service, Physical Touch, Interdependence, Separate-Togetherness, Nonlocal Consciousness, Collective Consciousness, Global Consciousness, Social Coherence, Emotional Contagion

Published

November 28, 2023

Publisher

HarperCollins

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