Discussing pride, help, shame and how to get out of our own way to receive help when we need it. This episode confronts the long arm of low self worth and helps us confront our do-it-yourself-demons that conspire to keep us in an old pattern of struggle. I announce our newest Patreon-Pay-It-Forward recipient & largest donation to date, Denver's own The Gathering Place. TGP provides safe, practical support, respect, and hand-ups.

On top of the general tensions & chaos of 2020, I'm seeing lots of heartache & change for highly sensitive people. Energies are a-churnin' Ya'll!!!! As we face big changes & big unknowns as a tribe and individually we will be challenged to let go and move on in many ways. I share a story about my old supervisor, Gus, a Spiritual Father, who lovingly helped me when I was a super green therapist & human being & taught me by showing me simplicity & truth in letting go.

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.

Sharing some of my own road through poverty, struggle, and humbling myself in the name of survival. I hope it helps anyone who is out there facing economic uncertainty, fear, and (hopefully not) desperation. I name the societal shame trap of facing 'taking a job that's beneath me,' and that financial hardship is a major player in suicidal ideation and a continuation of anxiety/depression and PTSD symptoms. As many enter (or deepen) financial uncertainty within our covid economy, I want to keep talking about money, hope, resiliency, surviving to thriving, understanding these deep and tender, generational and worth-impacting dynamics. For the record, our worth as individuals does not change. My worth and your worth remain, fixed, no matter our financial value or comfort, if there is one dollar or millions, even when our feelings try to say otherwise. Visit https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass for exclusive episodes

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!

If you wait for courage before you act, then this episode is for you! I share how I found courage through the experience of skydiving--I hope it helps you understand your own relationship with bravery and challenge.

Slowing down is essential in healing and easier said than done. This longer meditation supports rewiring and retraining the nervous system with mindfulness, intention, and grounded calm to slow down to integrate mind and body. Strongly recommended for anyone experiencing, FNET Fear of Not Enough Time and healing performance based esteem or perfectionism.

Letting go of hyper vigilance, sneaky codependency issues, self worth, self love, self esteem, manifesting expansion, processing mistakes.

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

How triggers show up in the mundane moments for HSPs, Empaths, Survivors, PTSD, Anxiety, Recovery, ; Nikki teaches by sharing a story about getting triggered and freezing in public.

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.

Permission to self care and practice radical ownership of self regulation and healing

Working with the moments when we just don't think we'll make it in life, inviting challenge; how it feels to be a nature empath, connecting to the earth, finding more confidence and self esteem, allowing more beauty inside.

Expanding awareness of High Sensation Seeking High Sensitivity to decrease confusion about introversion and extroversion, increase self acceptance and understanding to better manage mental health care and advocacy within self, social communities, and healthcare.

Letting go of victim mentality feels like pulling our own head our of our ass.....when we do we realize it's not so dark and gross. Your pain is not your life; pain is just your pain. One of my all time favorite lines from The Shawshank Redemption is 'Get Busy living, or Get busy dying.' What are you going to do this week, to live more? How will you show up for yourself? How will you face what you are justifying hiding from, and transcend your own limiting beliefs.

Humans as spiritual beings vs animals, realities of predators in the population, and how to own our personal power through self defense; Protecting ourselves by stepping into the personal power of our bodies without apology.

Taking responsibility for our role as HSPs in the games of narcissism; from denial to dealing in self care with the elephant in the room to setting ourselves up for success with our New Years Resolutions and Intentions.

Making sense of chiropractic because we hold trauma in the body; Because it takes a village, we create our self care teams using intuition, knowledge and feedback from other HSPs and survivors, and we never settle for less than loving care.

Nikki offers prompts to guide us through the confusion of the questions, 'Am I choosing to leave or am I running away?' Dealing with emotional manipulation, and permission to run like hell when we spot sociopathy.

Motivation Mindset of Lighting up for ourselves and each other, a lesson from Toni Morrison and Oprah, and the missing link in the search for peace and joy in self development. Check out our new website!!