Emotional Badass Podcast

Regularly ranked in the top 100 of Mental Health Podcasts. Psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer,
M.Ed, LPC, LCDC, discusses mental health, recovery, and emotional wellness tools for everyday life. New episodes are released every Sunday.

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10 Ways Shame Sabotages HSPs

Shame rarely walks into the room and introduces itself. It hides as anxiety, hypervigilance, the survival mode that lingers no matter how much work you've done.

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Self Development and God-Like Parents

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.

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Little Observers & Shame. How we Hurt and Heal Ourselves

A vulnerable self shaming story from Nikki's childhood. This episode is about looking back into childhood to explore the shame and blame we can carry from the limited ways we processed problems in youth to find our growth edge, let go of shame and blame, and dialogue with our inner child to fill the voids, heal the wounds and level up our self love and like.

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Shame Absorption and Release

Shame absorption and the process of acknowledgment, feeling, release. A story about Nikki from Jr. High and the subtle, not-so-subtle, life experiences that overly inform the HSP; how to safely break through walls.

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