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How to Be the Love You Seek
Nicole LePera
3.9 (5973 Reviews)
Relationship
Psychology
Self-growth
Mindfulness
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Dr. Nicole LePera's revolutionary guide challenges conventional relationship wisdom, arguing that self-love - not compromise - creates lasting connections. The final installment in her bestselling trilogy offers a radical question: What if healing yourself is the key to healing every relationship in your life?

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When Love Feels Like Loneliness

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Ever notice how you can feel utterly alone while lying next to someone who loves you? That peculiar ache of disconnection despite proximity isn't a sign you've chosen the wrong partner-it's a signal pointing inward. Most of us spend our lives searching for love in all the wrong places, convinced that the right person will finally make us feel whole. We swipe through profiles, analyze compatibility, and wonder why relationships keep following the same exhausting script. Here's the truth that changes everything: the relationships you keep attracting aren't random. They're precise recreations of your earliest emotional blueprints, playing out with different actors but the same underlying dynamic. Your nervous system, wired in childhood, unconsciously selects partners who feel familiar-even when familiar means painful. This isn't about blame or broken childhoods. Even in seemingly normal families, subtle patterns of emotional unavailability or chronic stress program us to expect certain relational dynamics. The revolutionary insight? Once you understand these patterns, you gain the power to rewrite them.

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The Body Knows What the Mind Forgets

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The Nervous System's Secret Language

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The Stories That Run Your Life

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Your Heart's Electromagnetic Wisdom

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Transforming Connection Through Co-Regulation

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Becoming the Love You Already Are

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