How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Dr. Nicole LePera is a practical guide to self-healing and personal growth. Blending psychology, neuroscience, and holistic wellness, LePera explains how childhood experiences, trauma, and subconscious patterns influence behavior, relationships, and emotional health. The book encourages readers to move from awareness into action through tools like nervous system regulation, boundary setting, reparenting, and daily self-practice. With an empowering and accessible approach, How to Do the Work offers a roadmap for breaking unhealthy cycles, cultivating self-compassion, and creating lasting change from within.