The Mel Robbins Podcast

She is a worldrenowned clinical psychologist, a bestselling author of the mega blockbuster bestseller, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?, which has spent 109 weeks on the UK Sunday Times bestseller list.

Dr. Nicole LePera was trained in clinical psychology at Cornell University, the New School for Social Research and the Philadelphia School of Psychoanalysis. She is the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, How to Do the Work and the host of the podcast Self Healers Soundboard.

Congratulations on the bestselling book, The Manual, that now exists for all of us to turn our inner critic into positive coaching chatter

one of the most famous books to come out of this borough or about this borough was titled, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. It was first published in 1997. The Four Agreements has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It has been on the New York Times bestseller list for over a decade. It's been published in 52 languages. And this reminder is very close to the second agreement that he writes about in this book, which is don't take anything personally.

She bought us the World Book Encyclopedia... I couldn't claim to have always understood because when you're 10, Christmas comes along and you go outside and your friends are like, well, I got a bicycle. I got a baseball... I got volume G of the World Book Encyclopedia.

She is the author of the bestselling book, The Deepest Well, a groundbreaking resource that has helped shift trauma from being seen as a psychological issue to being understood as a biological one.

And from my first book, Into the Magic Shop, I walked into a magic shop and met a woman who looked at me as a human being.

I'm excited for you to experience LIT and I'm excited to hear what resonates and I'd love to hear your stories.

I just read this book called The Breathing Cure. It is by this dude named Patrick McKeown. And I am still recovering from what I learned. Because I basically discovered that for 54 years, I have been breathing wrong.

I'm so blown away by this research that I fast tracked this author and the world's leading expert on breath to come teach you and me everything we need to know.

The quality of your breathing determines the quality of your life.

He's an international best-selling author of 10 books on the science of breathing.

I remember writing a book back in 2010 called Anxiety Free and I spoke about this paper that was published in 1988.

My friend Carrie Lorenz, who's the first female F-14 fighter pilot wrote a book called Span Of Control and in an emergency situation, there are only three dials that matter in a fighter jet.

So I loved your book. I'm So Effing Tired.

Title's fantastic, by the way, because I do feel effing tired and it's a proven plan to be burnout, boost your energy and reclaim your life.

And then on top of that, what they weren't doing and they still don't do is they weren't seeing the impact on hormones.

The book is I'm So Effin' Tired, but we ain't so effin' tired no more because Dr. Amy has given us simple things backed by profound science that you learned today that will help you take control of your hormone health so that you can live a much better life.

In "We've Got This", my new book, I talk about planning in advance of situations happening.

I wrote my first book on the topic in 2007, When Parents Hurt.

I'm so effin hungry why we crave what we crave and what to do about it.

I'm so effin hungry so much because I've learned that our cravings and the eating patterns that we have that aren't healthy for us based on the brain not based on Emotion, but that actually there is a whole hormone cycle to this thing.

In fact, you have been asking for dr. Amy Shaw to come on the show her latest book I'm so effin hungry why we crave what we crave and what to do about it.

And so I'm thrilled that you're here and I want to start with the difference between hunger Appetite and cravings, so we're all on the same page

you're a licensed and trained nutritionist with Ivy League degrees And you're also a medical doctor and you understand nutrition and the science of nutrition

Many of our poor food choices are not our fault.

Food and exercise are more effective than drugs for anxiety and depression?!

Show me what you eat and I'll show you who you are.

Our lives are dictated through food. We have now food addictions.

If you're in a cycle of emotional eating or if you're in a cycle where you have all of these cravings and you're always hungry and you're eating the wrong things that it's not your fault.

Many of our poor food choices are not our fault.

Food and exercise are more effective than drugs for anxiety and depression?!

Show me what you eat and I'll show you who you are.

Our lives are dictated through food. We have now food addictions.

If you're in a cycle of emotional eating or if you're in a cycle where you have all of these cravings and you're always hungry and you're eating the wrong things that it's not your fault

the risk for self-harm and suicide attempts is four times higher for girls with ADHD than girls without.

the outcomes for girls are horrendously negative compared to boys because ADHD materializes dramatically differently in girls as they get older.