How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

I like her instagram but the book is awful. She takes concepts from other self-help people (Bruce Lipton's work is heavily used in the opening chapters) and packages it up as if it's her own work and discoveries she's selling. Then she tells some fantastical stories about a chronically sick person who had a full recovery by working with her. It's so shallow a puddle looks deep by comparison. She also seems to put ALL trauma down to the way you were raised (which is nonsense). On top of that she implies that illnesses like autoimmune disease and cancer are down to the person with them not dealing with stored childhood trauma. This is insulting, dangerous and a disgusting abuse of influence. To shame the victim of a potentially terminal illness reeks of snake oil and nonsense in order to sell books and make a quick buck. There's very little on HOW to do the work she goes on about. At the end of each chapter you'll find a few prompts for 'future journaling' (which is never properly explained) and some mantras. Later on she talks about breath work, yoga and eating a wholefood diet with a bit of fasting (what's new there?). I read the first 5 chapters, started to feel like I was wasting my time, skimmed the rest of the book and got rid of it. This is clearly a case of a publisher approaching someone with a decent online following and convincing them to write a book to make some fast money. The book is badly written, badly researched and full of unbelievable anecdotes which are meant to make the gullible believe that they might have a miraculous recovery too. It's full of pseudoscience passed off as fact and backed up with a few references to very small scale studies which are there to 'prove' she's right. The chapter on identifying if you have stored trauma lists just about every negative trait someone might experience (so she's covering her bases). Don't waste your time or money. Have a quick scroll through her insta account as you'll learn as much there as you will from this book. It's very disappointing.

In response to the bad reviews- This book was an amazing read! I am actually shocked at the obviously malicious few reviews on here, which have clearly been written out of spite- you should have these removed as they do not reflect reality. They accuse the author of racism which is unfounded. The book is not anti-black! Nowhere in this book does Nicole make any racists remarks. Another review mentions the book has no solutions- literally every single chapter offers solutions at the end and exercises you can do to help with your healing. This book was also criticised for trying to be a replacement for therapy and medication. Nicole does not urge anyone to do that in her content or book! Anyone should be able to do some self reflection, how is that a bad thing? Now moving on to my review.. It was a very easy read and I can honestly say thank you Nicole for this book. It is enlightening and gives me hope for myself, my well-being and for the relationships I have with other people in my life. What you can expect from the book is learning about the act of being conscious in our day to day lives, about how to set healthy boundaries in situations where we could not before or didn’t know how, about family trauma and its effects on the body, things you can do to help your body get rid of trauma, meeting seeing and healing your inner child, reparenting your inner child, core beliefs, the ego and what role it plays in our life, how we can actively be conscious to loosen the ego and much more. If more people read a book like this and DO THE WORK, maybe the world would be filled with nicer less resentful people.