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. She is occasional joined on-air by her husband, co-founder, and producer, Chris Iacono. New episodes are released every Sunday across all platforms.

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When Easy is the Struggle

Exploring the reasons easy isn't easy for HSPs, Survivors, and Empaths, to gain inner permission to practice and invite more ease into this life that brings enough of it's own struggle. By owning these dynamics we no longer accidentally self sabotage with the limiting belief that ease is lazy and struggle is right. Allowing ease is the ultimate self care strategy.

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Depression, Regression, Empowerment, Self Care - PART 1

This episode is my longest solo episode ever, so it's broken into 2 parts. I share my mental mindset tips that helped pull me out of the hole. I want people to know they have power to ward off depression, own who they are, find truths, & plow through to the other side. We can heal & get to emotional security, even if we feel beyond broken

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The artistry of being an Empath, finding permission and worth by stepping outside of comfort zones.

How empaths experience the world and the permission to explore, expand, and own our callings. Nikki explores self esteem, resiliency, challenge, vulnerability, and expression. I hope this week's episode offers a deeper understanding of our highly sensitive empathic gifts, and how to grow into our worth by taking up space and claiming our callings. Shout outs to the courageous and inspiring Lisa Tahir and Marianne Williamson. Light and love!

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Bob Ross Energy for Fatigue & Stress Management

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

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Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Denial

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."

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How to Survive Unwanted Criticism

Using the Four Agreements to combat unwanted criticism, healing for codependency and people pleasing, dealing with shame based judgement, using stubbornness positively, rejecting vs. accepting. Find us online at https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

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The 5 Generations: iGen, Millennials, Gen X, Baby Boomers, & The Silent Generation

Currently, five generations make up our society. Each of those five generations has an active role in the marketplace. Depending on the specific workplace, the workforce includes four to five generations. Here are the birth years for each generation: iGen: 1996 – TBD Millennials: 1977 – 1995 Gen X: 1965 – 1976 Baby Boomers: 1946 – 1964 Silent Generation: 1945 and before

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