The Emotional Badass Podcast

Where Moxie Meets Mindful

Hosted by Licensed Professional Counselor and Psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer
M. Ed LPC LCDC

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  • Hosted by Nikki Eisenhauer M.ED. LPC, LCDC, International Life Coach and Psychotherapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Emotional Badasses are survivors, thrivers, seekers, healers, HSP’s, and empaths! Expand and awaken to your higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey mind of modern society with a weekly wellness podcast, spiritual tips, healing lessons of wisdom, meditations, mantras, and interviews.

    Connect deeply with yourself and safe others. In this mental health podcast, we let go of what doesn't serve us to heal old wounds, find our voice guilt-free, and learn to be the hero in our own story. Embrace guerrilla self-care, and laugh with lightness on the personal development, and mental health path.

    This podcast is designed to mindfully be the emotional education so many of us crave, and where we learn to love ourselves without apology. Emotional Badass is where Moxie Meets Mindful. To get exclusive episodes visit our Patreon.

    • Top 10 in Mental-Health

    • Top 50 in Health & Fitness

    • Top 1000 Podcasts of All Time on iTunes

    • Downloaded in over 100 countries

    • 🏆Semifinalist Health | People's Choice Podcast Awards 2020

  • Nikki Eisenhauer is an International Life Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Psychotherapist, from New Orleans. She continues building a global healing community on the podcast 'Emotional Badass’, downloaded in over 100 countries and ranked in the top 10 Mental Health podcasts on iTunes in 2020. Nikki was recently featured as a mental health professional on the nationally syndicated TV show, ‘The List’. Learn More

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Exit Strategies for Gatherings

In this episode, we delve into the often overlooked yet crucial topic of gracefully exiting social gatherings, a challenge particularly relevant during the holiday season. We explore strategies for those struggling with childhood trauma or people-pleasing tendencies, emphasizing the importance of affirming one's right to leave, pre-planning exits, cultivating assertiveness, and embracing the "good enough" principle in social participation.

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How 'Detaching with Love' Can Transform Your Life

We focus on 'detaching with love' a strategy for self-improvement and better relationships. It emphasizes mindfulness to break unhelpful patterns, self-reflection for emotional understanding, questioning attachments for emotional clarity, and setting boundaries to avoid self-sabotage.

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Becoming a Boundaries Artist

In this week's episode, Nikki breaks down what you need to become artful with boundaries to be able to give yourself structure, security, and sanity. Understand the power of prioritizing peace and nervous system regulation while letting go of energy zapping people pleasing. Grow self worth and esteem as well as insight and compassion to avoid the codependent trap of approval seeking.

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Compatibility and Boundaries for HSPs within Relationships

To consider compatibility I had to first understand and accept more about my personality and temperament--not what I thought my temperament and personality were supposed to be, but how I was made, how I am, what's changeable within myself and what isn't. I hope this week's episode opens the conversation of compatibility and workability in partnership to help us strengthen our existing relationship with self, current partners, inner circle.

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Why Setting Boundaries is so Important for our Wellness and Mental Health

Embracing change and using the wisdom of the seasons as an experiential exercise to help us see where we are now as we embrace the next seasons of our lives. There is winter, spring, summer and fall. What would happen to the earth if a season stuck? Really think about that for a min. Highly sensitive people can get stuck in a season. Are you stuck in a season or are you flowing through them?

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    Learn to create and maintain boundaries, to help cultivate peace and relieve stress.

  • Actionable Soul Care Strategies

    Tips, tricks, and videos of actionable steps and strategies you can implement to improve your mental health.