Every experience, every person, and every challenge can be our teacher. From heartbreaks, road rage, and the pain of loss, to the unexpected lessons of 2020 and the trials of running a podcast. We discuss these and personal stories that illustrate the transformative power of embracing life's lessons.

In this episode, we discuss navigating life's most challenging moments. Many feel unprepared for adulthood and its complexities, but it's vital to realize that we all have the capacity to grow and learn.

In this episode, we uncover hidden tales and ancestral secrets, exploring the impact of generational trauma and the healing power of intuitive insight. Join us to discover the resilience and strength intertwined in our family narratives, learning how to navigate and reconcile with our past, and find closure and enlightenment through this revelatory journey.

With 17 years of experience in the field of psychotherapy, I've witnessed my clients' strength and resilience while learning the power of connection, intuition and humor in overcoming trauma.

One of the big things I disagree with now, that I bought into earlier in my career, is generalized anxiety and social anxiety. I want to go over those medical criteria with you through my childhood trauma and neglect lenses.

Letting go of desperation through understanding and opening to the possibility of spiritual connection in your own way. Cultivating faith and peace through a healing spiritual connection is available to all of us, if we want it.

I share a story from my childhood, discuss how our mental health struggles develop and model a simple soul care inner-child dialogue. I briefly discuss Dissociative Identity Disorder, too.

In this week's episode I discuss why vs. how as a healing tool of action in healing, identifying the holes that childhood trauma creates so that we no longer trip into them as people and as parents. We explore choices not power struggles, owning our human flaws, owning reactivity with a simple plan, exploring what we model for the children who watch us, understanding the roots of manipulation, helping a child find their assertive voice.

In this episode, we break down the impossibility of trauma dumping on a professional therapist and how to take care of your sweet self with compassion if you recognize that past trauma and struggle seems to flood out at inopportune times. You are worth deep self compassion and emotional self acceptance as you walk your healing journey.

I'm reintroducing myself to our new listeners and discussing the difference between surviving trauma and identifying with trauma, resisting victim mentality, the process of leaning in to learn, overtime, and the difference between intuition and anxiety to ultimately gain more energy by using intuition as the tool it was meant to be.

In this week's episode we work on Increasing understanding of adult symptoms of trauma and neglect so that you can hold yourself in love, respect, and healing. In moving towards wholeness we let of of fear and any desperation or hopelessness. Integration is continuous when we are open, willing, and leaning into the light.

A personal story of brief spiritual parents, Margo and Bob. This episode is for anyone who struggles with Mother's Day and Father's Day due to childhood trauma and dysfunctional family dynamics and is seeking spiritual mindset to lighten the load in healing.

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.

Intimate Interview with Beyond Surviving Life Coach and fellow podcaster Rachel Grant; Nikki and Rachel discuss the road and struggles that guided both of us from therapist to life coach, breaking the rules, stepping outside of fear, breaking free from childhood trauma, the business of healing and how Rachel helps people return to their authentic self.

Breaking the looping of chronic pain; perspective on the link between chronic pain, suicidal ideation, and fight or flight. Tips to help your nervous system rest, restore, and mend, even when it all feels chronic.

From Louisiana & Nola roots, we examine the culture of change, fast changers, slow changers, and non-changers. How to deal with common core issue of interpersonal and intra-personal change as well as self-care, conflict, and upset. We can begin to engage in mindful soul care self talk for healthier present moment awareness and deeper insight.

On today's episode we talk ego strength, self care, self worth, self esteem, confidence and imposter syndrome. We explore patterns for HSPs and Trauma Survivors and the importance of embracing self reliance and boundaries.

Welcome to the show! My tribe can be described as Emotional Badasses on the path of healing and growth work. I have high hopes that this show grows and spreads emotional education, simple meditation, and grounded psycho-social-spiritual empowerment education through the world. HSPs (Highly Sensitive People), Empaths, Seekers, and Trauma Survivors, and those in addiction and codependency recovery will resonate!