A meditation to melt away stress and tension, inspired by Gusto. Meditation can be simple, easy, and offers us healthy escape and resetting of mind and body..

What grounding is, and simple exercises you can do right now to ground, calm, and center mind and body. With practice, we let go of hypervigilance and teach ourselves how to feel safe.

We explore the pitfalls of hypervigilance & continued anger & outrage in advocacy, especially for people who are working to heal trauma & struggle to keep the body in a state of calm. To thrive as empaths we must understand how we react & take radical ownership over the state of our own mind-bodies. This year has shown me that the work of emotional boundaries & radical permission to do what's necessary to heal--even when it's unpopular--has never been more important.

The Bob Ross inspired episode is HERE! Wisdom from one of my favorite Wise Men, The Joy of Painting creator and PBS star, Bob Ross. I share what he meant to me as a child and how I'm channeling his grounded peace. I hope I do his memory justice with this episode. We dive deep into some of his favorite sayings and unpack the wisdom of 'no mistakes, just happy little accidents.' Light and love, Nikki

I'm excited to share with you a passage from a favorite healing book by Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light. It inspired a meditation I wrote to help us flow when life throws obstacles in our path. Most of us have heard the fun fact that our bodies are mostly water. I hope this episode and meditation help you feel how powerful you truly are and how you can learn to use your energy & power to flow around, through, above, below, and beyond.

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.

I've had negotiation on my mind, Ya'll. Negotiation. It's as inescapable as grief and we get just as much education in how to do it. Zilch! Nada! Nothing! Sensitives and Survivors can really struggle in the face of the vibes that come from hard-ball negotiation tactics. I hope this week's episode helps shine light on the areas we can own and grow to become better negotiators in life.

Those of us in the Highly Sensitive Tribe can be so so hard on ourselves. I've learned over the years that HSPs and survivors tend to double down on personal pressure to 'just figure it out' when figuring it out might not be on the table in any given moment. This week's episode is about THAT--I share what I've learned to do when I just don't know what to do. Hope you enjoy it! Light and love!

Let's talk about burnout compassion fatigue, compartmentalization and denial. Therapists are taught about burnout before we see our 1st patient. lots of you know about burnout. I like the physical definitions of burnout to explain how it feels emotionally. "The failure of an electrical device or component through overheating. physical and mental collapse."

Exploring the Book Toxic Parents by Susan Forward Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life, levels of dysfunction, healing and boundaries.

So much to process when it comes to coming out of the shadows of racism to heal individually, as Americans, and around the world. Stress management, letting go and meditating to help us pace for the marathon of an awakened life.

There’s so much for us to learn by observing our relationship to irritability, anxiety, and making mistakes as we evolve, break cycles, and grow emotional intelligence for introverts and extroverts. I hope there’s something in this episode to help us own what needs owning and help us let go of what doesn’t serve us. Might want to pull out a journal for this one!

How to use mindfulness to heal mind, body, and life. Stress management to increase peace and calm by taking responsibility for what we practice. Help keep the show commercial free by supporting us at patreon.com/emotionalbadass

Nikki interviews Bryan Messmer from Easy Float to break through fears and resistance to trying this trend in modern healing; self care, phone addiction, boundaries, stress management, decompressing, healing PTSD and grief.

Financial health, dark truths about the government's debt relief program for student loan debt, making financial missteps and encouragement to own and open up about finances as an important part of our mental and emotional health and well being.

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

A passage from Thit Nat Hahn's book Reconciliation, choosing our emotional nutrition to starve suffering, a meditation to invite more kindness, slowing down, releasing stress and tension, believing our power to self nourish to cope with loneliness and stress on the seekers path. www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

We went to the Big Quiet in Denver, an event for mass meditating, healing, loneliness, and making new friends. Check out the Big Quiet online at https://thebigquiet.com/ Find Emotional Badass on https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass to access exclusive content, the monthly video live stream, behind the scenes clips, & opportunities to work with Nikki in group format.

Acknowledging fatigue and exhaustion to aid emotional and physical release of negative symptoms while increasing energy, vibrancy, and life force. A sensory meditation to help focus and shifting emotional and mental muscle development.

Yin, Yang, Yoga! Centering and grounding meditation to use whenever anxiety kicks up a storm, and some good ole' self worth building and acceptance of taking up space.