In this week’s episode we discuss mindfulness vs hyper vigilance, breaking down defensiveness, and explore how to use beautiful stubbornness.

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.

Exploring the physical, mental, emotional signs of worry as well as worry as weather. When worry is normalized we can no longer separate worry from living, worry from loving, etc.. Learn to recognize the signs of exhaustive worry to find your empowerment to choose where your energy goes and where it doesn't. The Emotion Thesaurus by Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi.

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

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.

We discuss a mindfulness visualization technique to let go of anger, frustration, fear, and hyper-vigilance through inviting acceptance and flow. Find freedom by confronting the expectation to control and accepting where you are, as you are.

In today's episode I wanted to share a current struggle and my pain process for moving through the feelings of shock, powerlessness, anger, triggered abandonment wounds, hurt, and sadness. I highlight how to observe vs. absorb someone else's pain for HSPs, recovering codependents, people pleasers, care takers and survivors. I hope this episode shows you how to move through your own pain vs. getting bogged down, and see the strength that is most definitely within you.

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.

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.

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!

Chris encouraged me to post this publicly instead of exclusively on our show's Patreon. He said it's important. Some of my more personal stories feel more contained there than on the iTunes feed. Big breath. He's right. I hope there's something useful to you in the complexity of the story. It's about love, respect, personal choice, spiritual connection, letting go while in fear & unknown, and calling & dealing with some very real shit. Thank you for holding space for me within my vulnerability & truth.

How to stay emotionally grounded and manage our feelings through this crisis. The world is more connected than ever while practicing social distancing through the Coronavirus pandemic. We'll engage in a strength and capability meditation exercise to help us maintain good mental health during this COVID-19 outbreak.

Use mountain pose to grow intuition, reduce anxiety, ground, root, feel stronger; discover where yoga meets meditation and where mind meets body. www.Patreon.com/Emotionalbadass

Exploring end of the year reflecting, balance, ego, learning vs. regret, sorrow, control, letting go, clearing space, discussing Brene Brown's 'right to your story', having enough time, appreciation as self care, gratitude, facing fear, & radical self love. www.Patreon.com/EmotionalBadass

High vibe, medium vibe, low vibe. High energetic frequency. Growing the muscles to increase understanding of your own differences in feeling intuition vs. anxiety.

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.

Redefining goal setting to internalizing self care as soul care to cultivate balance and ease while reducing feelings of frustration, failure, overwhelm, and being 'behind the curve.' Goal setting as it relates to depression, anxiety, PTSD.

Mindfulness brings awareness that gives us the space to make changes, to shape how we process our worlds actively vs. slipping into a powerlessness; we have such power to shape our world view and by proxy our moods, feelings, and mindset. I would like to invite you into my process by sharing my City gal self to show you how I've trained myself to lift myself up.

Coping skills and increased understanding for managing the critical voice and growing the nurturing voice to soothe, self care, and grow the inner child for more confidence, security, and reduction in anxiety and depression symptoms.