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.

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.

This is a meditation series continuation from The Mermaid Meditation, and I know many of you really liked it--it was shared so much that many new listeners found me because of that meditation so, this is the next in the series.

In this week's episode, Nikki discusses how to give children the opportunity to build the emotional muscles that help them navigate the world, build critical thinking, confidence, empathy, self worth, connection to community, empowerment, resiliency, and self respect---the very things that make them depression and anxiety resistant.

In this week's episode we are exploring self discipline as it relates to authoritarian and passive parenting styles, depression, and ADD or ADHD. Nikki discusses what to practice to reduce hyper vigilance and overthinking as we move through life's feelings and endless unknowns.

In loving memory of Thich Nhat Hahn, one of my spiritual fathers. I share some of his wisdom from my favorite book of his, Reconciliation: Healing the Innerchild. He was a master at teaching us how to mature and love ourselves.

I am excited to share Gillan Tietz to discuss her journey to sobriety. Biochemist by day, Sober Powered Podcast host and producer by night, we discuss the brain and body science behind our addictions. She shares how drinking affected her mental health, and how she developed the emotional resiliency to recover from alcoholism.

How integrity can get in the way of new growth, Deja's manifest success and affirmations deck, practicing new growth with ease. Law of Attraction, money mindset, and loving your quirky self.

In this week's episode I discuss gratitude as a heart centered lifestyle and walk you through how to intend and feel the healing emotions of gratitude and compassion in the heart. We explore dogs as man's best friend and commit to love ourselves as they love us, unconditionally.

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

Breaking down boundaries and the relationship between boundary setting, self worth, and codependency. Pouring out gratitude to all of you who are out there seeking, growing, and being the change in the world.

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.

How and where to start the therapeutic process while managing perfectionism, anxiety, fears, and frustrations with a good enough healer. Learning to speak authentically and live in the 'gray' while moving from surviving to thriving.

Nikki has fun and gets excited about science and music with Brain.fm CEO, highly sensitive person, and brain training enthusiast, Dan Clark. For a free 30 day trial visit: https://www.brain.fm/redeem/emotionalbadass To get 20% off your subscription use code: emotionalbadass

Exploring the reasons easy isn't easy for HSPs, Survivors, and Empaths, to gain inner permission to practice and invite more ease into this life that brings enough of it's own struggle. By owning these dynamics we no longer accidentally self sabotage with the limiting belief that ease is lazy and struggle is right. Allowing ease is the ultimate self care strategy.

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.

If you’ve ever been in a supposed safe space that didn’t feel so safe, this episode is for you! In accepting what IS over an IDEAL, we empower ourselves to do the real work of becoming safer within. Light, love, and real shit.

I'm excited to share this interview with friend, colleague, fellow empath Crystal Catalina LMSW to discuss her mind-body Covid transformation. We discuss mental health & body, toxic diet culture, understanding the pitfalls of the cultures we happen to find ourselves in, meeting ourselves right where we are with love as necessary catalyst to transformation.

Hello Tribe! Today we break down what it means to check in with ourselves & grow mindful muscles to take the very best care of deep, expansive selves. A little intuition vs. anxiety, internal vs. external, and oldie-but-goodie borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous sayings, HALT: exploring Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, as a check in strategy. Sometimes it's the simple things that go over our heads or we can over complicate as Highly Sensitive People.

How we double down on hurting our esteem, worth, and resiliency when we’ve been betrayed. How to address these to improve our Mental Health and Wellness.