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. New episodes are released every Sunday.

Where Moxie Meets Mindful

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Spirituality NIkki Eisenhauer Spirituality NIkki Eisenhauer

Our Relationship with Spirituality

Letting go of desperation through understanding and opening to the possibility of spiritual connection in your own way. Cultivating faith and peace through a healing spiritual connection is available to all of us, if we want it.

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Gratitude, Heart Centered Lifestyle, Dogs as Gurus

In this week's episode I discuss gratitude as a heart centered lifestyle and walk you through how to intend and feel the healing emotions of gratitude and compassion in the heart. We explore dogs as man's best friend and commit to love ourselves as they love us, unconditionally.

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Parenting as an HSP While Healing

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.

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Worry and the Emotion Thesaurus

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.

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Trauma Dumping and Bad Therapy

In this episode, we break down the impossibility of trauma dumping on a professional therapist and how to take care of your sweet self with compassion if you recognize that past trauma and struggle seems to flood out at inopportune times. You are worth deep self compassion and emotional self acceptance as you walk your healing journey.

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Facing Scary Things

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.

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The Mermaid Meditation

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.

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Self-Care, Truth Speaking NIkki Eisenhauer Self-Care, Truth Speaking NIkki Eisenhauer

A lesson from Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle and getting through Covid with Grace, Spirit, and Sanity

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

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23 Similarities that HSPs Share

A list exploring similarities of individuals in our highly sensitive tribe. Sign up for The Boundaries Course at https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries .

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