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.

Where Moxie Meets Mindful

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Why Strong Boundaries are your Superpower

Real boundary work starts with internal boundaries - learning to sit with discomfort instead of people-pleasing your way out, recognizing when you abandon yourself, and understanding that your anxiety might be your soul screaming for you to stop treating yourself like nothing.

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Exit Strategies for Gatherings

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.

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How 'Detaching with Love' Can Transform Your Life

We focus on 'detaching with love' a strategy for self-improvement and better relationships. It emphasizes mindfulness to break unhelpful patterns, self-reflection for emotional understanding, questioning attachments for emotional clarity, and setting boundaries to avoid self-sabotage.

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Becoming a Boundaries Artist

In this week's episode, Nikki breaks down what you need to become artful with boundaries to be able to give yourself structure, security, and sanity. Understand the power of prioritizing peace and nervous system regulation while letting go of energy zapping people pleasing. Grow self worth and esteem as well as insight and compassion to avoid the codependent trap of approval seeking.

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Compatibility and Boundaries for HSPs within Relationships

To consider compatibility I had to first understand and accept more about my personality and temperament--not what I thought my temperament and personality were supposed to be, but how I was made, how I am, what's changeable within myself and what isn't. I hope this week's episode opens the conversation of compatibility and workability in partnership to help us strengthen our existing relationship with self, current partners, inner circle.

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