Summary of How to Be the Love You Seek by Nicole LePera: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

By Justin Reese

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Summary of How to Be the Love You Seek by Nicole LePera: Break Cycles, Find Peace, and Heal Your Relationships

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Dr. LePera's "How to Be the Love You Seek" is a guide to healing relationships, starting with oneself. The book uses scientific research to teach readers how unmet needs from early relationships create dysfunctional patterns and leave us in constant internal threat. It teaches how to create safety in one's body and mind, identify unmet needs, develop emotional resilience, cultivate heart coherence to build deep emotional connections, and maintain healthy interdependence in communities. The book is designed for individuals struggling to maintain relationships or facing challenges with loved ones. Dr. LePera teaches how to break painful cycles and reconnect with the wisdom, appreciation, and compassion that lives in each heart. The book offers a healing roadmap for all generations of cycle-breakers.

• Language: English
• Publisher: jUSTIN REESE
• Release date: Nov 28, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223530374

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Introduction

You Create Change

The author shares their experience of struggling with relationships that cause stress and resentment. They have worked with clients who desire lasting love, resolve conflicts, or break dysfunctional habits. Many clients read relationship books and tried various strategies and tools, such as the concept of love languages by Dr. Gary Chapman. These theories suggest that asking partners to demonstrate their love through physical touch, quality time together, gift giving, words of affirmation, or acts of service can deepen their connection.

However, this approach often backfires in real life. We cannot change others and relying on them to change their ingrained relational patterns doesn't usually work for long. Instead, seeking external change often increases tension between people, causing reactivity or discontent, and perpetuating conflict or disconnection. It can even be a recipe for a lifetime of resentment and contempt.

The author shares their own experience of feeling disconnected and alone in relationships, even when surrounded by others. One Christmas, they were dating Sara, and they celebrated the holiday together early. When Sara asked if they could hang out as a couple, the author was thrilled and excited. However, as they got ready to leave, they started to feel the same sense of disconnection.

Instead of feeling connected, the author felt even more alone in a dark, crowded theater, feeling as though they were sitting next to a stranger. To deal with the discomfort, they ordered beer and continued to drink throughout the performance, hoping it would break down the wall between them.

As a clinical psychology student, the author was struggling with emotional loneliness and disconnection in their relationship with Sara. They believed that their own feelings of isolation contributed to their unhappiness and felt isolated. The author discovered that emotional connection is essential for connecting with others, and authentically feeling and expressing emotions allows us to feel seen, known, and supported by others.

The author held others responsible for their relationship problems and expected them to change for them, leading to a lack of understanding of their role in their own unhappiness. They realized that they could never control what others would or wouldn't do, and expecting or demanding someone else to change would only leave them both feeling unloved.

The author learned that to change how we relate to others and experience our relationships, we must first change how we relate to and experience ourselves. This is directly impacted by how others related to and experienced us in their earliest relationships. Feeling unworthy and playing conditioned selves to protect themselves and fit into their environments led to disconnecting from our unique essence and individual way of being with others.

To authentically express ourselves with others, we need to feel safe and secure in our own body. Many people cannot access this sense of safety due to chronically unmet needs, leading to chronic stress and a physiological inability to feel safe in the presence of others. This realization opened the author to the importance of feeling safe in one's own body and allowing others to connect with their authentic needs and desires.

The author shares their story of feeling worthless and lovable without validation or approval. They share how they suppressed parts of themselves as children, leading to increased stress and resentment. By reconnecting with their inherent worthiness, they can create safety and security for others to authentically express themselves. The author shares their journey of connecting with their physical body and understanding their needs and wants, which allowed them to handle stressful experiences and share their feelings. This led to more honesty and empathy with others, allowing them to be more present and empathize with their emotional experiences.

The author's journey teaches the importance of finding and removing protective barriers against love, emphasizing that love is not about showing up in a specific way but about embodying the feeling itself. The author shares tools and information to guide readers on their journey back to their heart, focusing on body, mind, and soul. They learn to recognize conditioned selves, identify needs, soothe overwhelming emotions, and reconnect with their heart's innate capacity to love.

Reconnecting with the wisdom and intuition in one's heart will guide choices that bring joy and fulfillment, both within and outside relationships. This journey will help spread love to the spaces between and around individuals, granting access to their deepest potential and benefiting all communities. The love within each person is the true source of all healing.

The Power of Your Relationships

Many people view relationships as happening to them, rather than with or because of them. They often fall in love and pick the wrong people over and over again, missing the red flags repeatedly. It's difficult to recognize the active role we play in our relationships, as we may instinctively choose certain people for specific reasons. Many people fall in love with someone not because they've awakened our heart's desire, but because that person satisfies unconscious needs we're not even aware we have. We often feel powerless in our relationships because we spend most of