Dive into an intimate conversation with Amber Sears as she shares her transformative journey from breast augmentation to breast implant illness, to explant surgery and finally, self-reclamation. Explore the emotional depths of societal pressures, self-worth, and the power of how we perceive ourselves.

I have learned an important lesson from my clients about parenting and relationships - that it is necessary work to figure out how to negotiate with parents who have a mix of narcissistic and warm traits. I have also learned that some families have a level of mind control and dysfunction that is cult-like, and that it is important to draw boundaries and speak up for yourself.

Self love and practicing our worth, using inspiration from powerful female poets. Poems are vessels of feeling and offer us the powerful tool of expression and release.

We discuss SEEKER and SEEKING to increase self acceptance, understanding, self love, and compassion for how we think, feel, behave, and move through the world as we learn to embrace our authentic selves in healing and self development. Nikki shares a story about her very 1st boss in mental health.

Exploring betrayal bonding to find permission to grow into healthy boundaries and actionable self respect. Inspired by the book: The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick J. Carnes PHD.

How to use Archetypes to get to know different aspects of ourselves and expand healing. By picking battles we can avoid burnout and have the energy to fight the ones we decide need fighting. We work to hold space for our light & dark selves with wholeness while letting go of taking things personally. In this work we stay connected to true self vs. chasing the unavailable ideal which is the essence of unconditional self love.

Nikki discusses Dynamics of Love, Trust, Trauma Bonding, Addiction, hope, healing, childhood abuse, enmeshment, disentanglement, Stockholm syndrome, work ethic and workaholism, comfort vs. complacency, manipulation, security, earning trust, self respect, self trust.

Thank you Instagram for inspiring this episode! www.instagram.com/nikkieisenhauer A few months ago I made a post about insecurity and so many of you reposted and liked it--insecurity is a hot topic! I hope I honored the inspiration and expanded on the post in this week's episode of Emotional Badass. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Reducing confusion, stress and anxiety by understanding and accepting the complexity of all of our HSP parts or archetypes.

Coping with a passive aggressive message of 'Who do you think you are?' Shame Resilience, narcissistic abuse recovery self talk, empowering self love and Intuitive Soul Care language for HSPs, Survivors, and Empaths to reframe and rewrite old dysfunctional scripts.

Thank you HSP workshop participants. Nikki discusses tips to practice happiness from the inside out, and build self esteem with a simple meditation exercise for the beginners mind.