You ever feel like you're a human battery whose juice is always going into everyone else's devices, but no one ever recharges you? You're not alone! This episode explores why we often find ourselves drained, obsessing over others at the expense of our well-being.

Today we delve into the transformative concept of "mattering" as an essential component for personal well-being and a safeguard against destructive emotional states. Drawing on two decades of psychotherapy experience, I offer a holistic approach to healing.

From the importance of setting a positive tone, avoiding the usual phone scroll, embracing genuine connections, to simple steps like smiling and reciting affirmations, we highlight the significance of starting the day right. Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF here: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning

Here are 9 simple tools and strategies to help unlock our focus and creativity. By utilizing these as often as we can allow focusing to become a habit, and make an ironic shift from our go-go culture to the realization that slow is the secret fast.

I'm discussing the concept of dry January and how it can help you conquer unhealthy habits. This is an actionable tip to get real and honest about the role that unhealthy habits play on your body and mind. Dry January is an opportunity to take on a challenge and find your true self. It gives us a framework, a community, and a challenge.

We will be covering topics such as developing your intuition, understanding the body's intelligence, and inner child healing. I will be providing simple exercises and strategies so you can start to uncover and strengthen your intuition. So, how can we develop our intuition?

It's a common dilemma for empaths, HSPs, survivors, and seekers alike: how can intuition be used as an exercise for our healing and growth? We often feel stuck between head knowledge and the unknown, and it's difficult to decipher emotion and our response to it.

Today we further explore Drama and go over some practical tips that can help us identify drama and suicidal thought.

Today I'm going to define and differentiate trauma, drama, and theatrics-- and I hope sharing my process of self discovery when it comes to the difference between these helps you see, understand, and ultimately guide yourself away from unnecessary drama and toward easier healing by better respecting your most precious recourses of time and energy.

In this post, I'll be discussing 3 ways music can be used as a tool for self-care. People often struggle with family relationships, personal growth, and loneliness. Music can be a great way to help us process our feelings and get to a place of acceptance. I'll be sharing a song that helped me through my own process of grief and healing. I hope you'll find it helpful too.

How to silence your inner critic and live a more fulfilling life. In this episode you will learn: 1. How the inner critic or inner bully can touch nearly every waking and sleeping moment of our lives 2. How suicide is often suggested by the inner critic, and how this can be prevented 3. How authenticity is everything, and how it is available for everyone.

Exploring personal power and personal responsibility as cornerstones of good mental health through the quotes of best selling author, change artist, and mental health professional Dr. Robert Anthony.

How to deal with the story maker of the mind by listening with the heart. Why we build up walls and how to take them down. This years boundaries course is filling up quick! Register today: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries

On today's show; Part 2 of accepting the uncomfortableness in life. How we can use Stoicism to manage the struggle of it with a peaceful warriors mentality. We learn to accept the real challenges of being alive while looking for the beauty and fortification within it all.

On today's show; accepting the uncomfortableness in life, and the struggle of it with a peaceful warriors mentality. We learn to accept the real challenges of being alive while looking for the beauty and fortification within it all.

In this week's episode we explore why it's easy to spin on and overthink any and every problem. Part of shifting from survival mode to thriving mode in PTSD recovery is cultivating a lens that helps us see solution more than problem. When we shift to a solution focus in our minds we respect our precious energy and direct that energy towards a can-do vs. can't-do mindset, from burdened to empowered. Listen til the end to share in our 4 year Emotional Badass Anniversary happiness!

A codependency checklist from page 39 of Susan Forward's book Toxic Parents: Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life. Nikki breaks down the list and breaks down the codependency struggle and the tasks of recovery.

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.

This episode is inspired by a chapter in Susan Forward's book Toxic Parents, The god like parents. Nikki explores family dynamics of shame, control, dependency, identity, differentiation from the family system, and the tasks that we can engage to grow up and out of this dysfunctional dynamic.

Whoohooo 2022! In this week's episode we embrace the feeling of satisfaction. Self care and learning to live with more ease through flexing the muscle of satisfaction.