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How to get out of our own ways when seeking purpose. In this week's episode I expound on some detraction patterns that can creep into our process as HSPs, empaths, and survivors, so we can respect ourselves and vibe higher.

What grounding is, and simple exercises you can do right now to ground, calm, and center mind and body. With practice, we let go of hypervigilance and teach ourselves how to feel safe.

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.

On this week's episode, I discuss how to self love and self care through emotional boundaries and permission to let go of the emotional vampires guilt, worry, and other exhausting emotions.

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.

I'm reintroducing myself to our new listeners and discussing the difference between surviving trauma and identifying with trauma, resisting victim mentality, the process of leaning in to learn, overtime, and the difference between intuition and anxiety to ultimately gain more energy by using intuition as the tool it was meant to be.

So what’s the difference between making an assertive request and setting boundaries? How can we identify ways in which we carry heavy and serious energy into conversations that could be more light and easy.

In this week's episode we work on Increasing understanding of adult symptoms of trauma and neglect so that you can hold yourself in love, respect, and healing. In moving towards wholeness we let of of fear and any desperation or hopelessness. Integration is continuous when we are open, willing, and leaning into the light.

This week I interview Lisa Tahir LCSW, intuitive psychotherapist, glass artist, host of All Things Therapy, author of The Chiron Effect: Healing Our Core Wounds through Astrology, Empathy, and Self Forgiveness. I'm excited to share the amazing woman who has mentored my healing path and helped me grow into the person I am today. Find her at https://www.nolatherapy.com

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.

A personal story of brief spiritual parents, Margo and Bob. This episode is for anyone who struggles with Mother's Day and Father's Day due to childhood trauma and dysfunctional family dynamics and is seeking spiritual mindset to lighten the load in healing.

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.

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.

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.

Let go of the stories & confusion that keep you lost by leaning into intuition and learning to trust your gut. Healing is learning to ACT from intuition without self-talking ourselves in circles. Nikki shares what's she's intuitively learned from being proposed to 3 times.

A vulnerable self shaming story from Nikki's childhood. This episode is about looking back into childhood to explore the shame and blame we can carry from the limited ways we processed problems in youth to find our growth edge, let go of shame and blame, and dialogue with our inner child to fill the voids, heal the wounds and level up our self love and like.