Interview with Lindsey Matthews Cantu, CEO of Birthfit and The Birthfit Podcast to discuss the differences between illness and wellness models in healthcare and birthing, why home birth is up in the US by 20%, and taking back our health by defining our values, understanding suggestibility and propaganda, holding onto our critical thinking, and leaning into radical personal responsibility.

This episode is inspired by a chapter in Susan Forward's book Toxic Parents, The god like parents. Nikki explores family dynamics of shame, control, dependency, identity, differentiation from the family system, and the tasks that we can engage to grow up and out of this dysfunctional dynamic.

Whoohooo 2022! In this week's episode we embrace the feeling of satisfaction. Self care and learning to live with more ease through flexing the muscle of satisfaction.

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.

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.

In this week's episode I'm discussing emotional blackmail and coercion as it relates to Covid and the current political narrative. A confronting episode for our human egos. We cover a lot today, respect, codependency, victim mentality, cult tactics, peer pressure, and manipulation.

In this week's episode I give voice to the inner child's experience of codependency. In healing we find permission to reparent our inner-selves to grow self worth. Cultivating balance, compassion, gratitude, boundaries and soft place to fall.

Today I share a poem I wrote for you as a nighttime meditation to center, let go of the day by letting go of anxiety and pressure while practicing the good enough principle.

In this week's episode I invite listeners to strengthen their spiritual connection as a major tool in self care. This tool helps our egos reject the offerings to drink anger kool-aid that are so wildly popular right now. Light and love. To get exclusive episodes visithttps://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadasss

We examine patience as the missing peace in HSP healing, growing emotional intelligence, and becoming a safe place to fall for our adult and child selves.

Exploring the good, the bad, and the ugly of some of the emotions HSPs and survivors struggle the most with. Upping our emotional IQ's results in more self love, more self respect, and more peace.

Untwisting the dysfunctional messages that are commonly taught when it comes to the emotion disappointment. Learn to take your power back by shifting mindset and offering the self a wild permission to feel excitement.

Self love and practicing our worth, using inspiration from powerful female poets. Poems are vessels of feeling and offer us the powerful tool of expression and release.

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.

Today's episode shines light on how to practice personal responsibility within feelings of loneliness. In personal development we learn how to let go of low vibes and vibrate higher; this changes how we attract and relate to others. We seek safety as Survivors and Sensitives and that is most definitely available.

We discuss SEEKER and SEEKING to increase self acceptance, understanding, self love, and compassion for how we think, feel, behave, and move through the world as we learn to embrace our authentic selves in healing and self development. Nikki shares a story about her very 1st boss in mental health.

This episode is about taming the destructive victim story of the dysfunctional ego to use roadblocks, mistakes, and struggle to grow our worth, esteem, and resiliency. It is a sign of great maturity and emotional evolution when we can practice gratitude when things are not going our way. We do this work because life is struggle but we do not have to suffer. Visit https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass for exclusive episodes, videos, and Mental Health tips for HSP's, Highly Sensitive People, and Empaths.

Learning how to say no, leads us to how to say yes. Nikki shares some personal stories of how YES has changed her life. We let go of survival mode and grow into thriving by showing up for ourselves with YES.

In this week's episode I discuss the difference between story and feeling and how to get to the other side of a highly sensitive broken heart as quickly as possible. Healing is learning to love ourselves through the toughest of human feelings while letting go of the stories that bind us. How and why I allowed myself to open up to love again after 2 divorces.

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.