Guest Dr. Camilo Ortiz Ph.D., as he shares expert parenting tips & strategies to nurture resilience in children, focusing on mental health & combating childhood anxiety.

Join us in this enlightening journey of self-discovery as we explore the intricate relationship between instinct, intuition, and anxiety, and their impact on mental health. In this episode, we delve into the essence of self-awareness, understanding the delicate balance between intuitive wisdom and intellectual knowledge.

In this episode we explore the unique challenges Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) face in managing emotions, particularly fear. We emphasize the importance of emotional resilience and self-care, underscoring the lack of guidance in traditional education systems on handling complex emotions like disappointment, anger, betrayal, and anxiety.

In the journey between calm and panic, managing anxiety involves recognizing our innate power to control our response to stress. Embracing stillness, making decisions in a state of calm, and using mindful breathing are key strategies. Beyond seeking quick fixes, it's essential to fully feel and process our emotions.

In the spirit of 'The Don't List' today we go over 19 easy ways to invite misery into your life, from embracing fear and overthinking everything, to politicizing your existence. Instead of promoting positivity and fulfillment, today we explore the practices that ensure misery, like self-sabotage and addiction to low vibe feelings.

Have you ever felt like you were in a toxic relationship but couldn't escape? Do you feel like you're in a situation you can't see a way out of? In this week's episode I share part 2 of my story of breaking free from an abusive marriage. This is a story of strength and resilience, and learning to trust myself and my intuition. I teach through how to take back our power in the face of manipulative and abusive relationships. If you're struggling with abuse, this episode will provide insight and hope that you can start the journey to freedom.

After experiencing years of manipulation and abuse, I learned how to begin decoding manipulation. As a highly-sensitive teenager I was on a desperate journey to break free and reclaim my life, learning the hard way that true freedom requires trusting my intuition and honoring my inner voice.

This week's episode is a story highlighting finding my voice, speaking up, racial tensions in Louisiana in the 90s, workplace family systems, work ethic, transmuting fear through experience.

One of the big things I disagree with now, that I bought into earlier in my career, is generalized anxiety and social anxiety. I want to go over those medical criteria with you through my childhood trauma and neglect lenses.

In this episode Nikki discusses pain, survivor's guilt, grief and loss specific to the crime of murder, the normalization of rage online, and offers a constructive vs. destructive future topic for part 2.

Interview with Lindsey Matthews Cantu, CEO of Birthfit and The Birthfit Podcast to discuss the differences between illness and wellness models in healthcare and birthing, why home birth is up in the US by 20%, and taking back our health by defining our values, understanding suggestibility and propaganda, holding onto our critical thinking, and leaning into radical personal responsibility.

Happy New Year! I want to share my Covid experience with you and some tips for holding space for yourself when and if sick.

In this week’s episode we discuss mindfulness vs hyper vigilance, breaking down defensiveness, and explore how to use beautiful stubbornness.

I share a story from my childhood, discuss how our mental health struggles develop and model a simple soul care inner-child dialogue. I briefly discuss Dissociative Identity Disorder, too.

Exploring the physical, mental, emotional signs of worry as well as worry as weather. When worry is normalized we can no longer separate worry from living, worry from loving, etc.. Learn to recognize the signs of exhaustive worry to find your empowerment to choose where your energy goes and where it doesn't. The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.

Three steps to inviting and achieving thriving mode. Exploring simplicity and peace to quiet, calm and soothe a healing nervous system.

Understanding fear and our personal relationships with it is an important part of growth and recovery. Some fear is functional some fear is dysfunctional and we ground and support our life's journey when we embrace learning the difference vs. giving in to the desires of fear that don't always serve us.

We discuss a mindfulness visualization technique to let go of anger, frustration, fear, and hyper-vigilance through inviting acceptance and flow. Find freedom by confronting the expectation to control and accepting where you are, as you are.

In today's episode I wanted to share a current struggle and my pain process for moving through the feelings of shock, powerlessness, anger, triggered abandonment wounds, hurt, and sadness. I highlight how to observe vs. absorb someone else's pain for HSPs, recovering codependents, people pleasers, care takers and survivors. I hope this episode shows you how to move through your own pain vs. getting bogged down, and see the strength that is most definitely within you.

A meditation for seekers desiring to deepen their connection with self and cultivate a safe space within. You count you matter, your healing is important. This meditation is an exercise for the mind muscle to strengthen our ability to control thought and fear instead of thoughts and fear controlling us. Light, love, and meditation,~ Nikki.