Podcast
Emotional Badass
Hosted by psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer, M.Ed. LPC, LCDC. This show provides essential emotional education on Mental Health, HSP (Highly Sensitive People), Narcissists & Manipulative personalities, healing from Trauma and PTSD, calming your nervous system, inner child work, and setting healthy boundaries.
Emotional Badasses are survivors, thrivers, seekers, and healers! Expand and awaken to your higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey mind of modern society with meditation, and connect deeply with yourself and safe others. We let go of what doesn't serve us to heal old wounds, find our voice guilt-free, and learn to be the hero in our own story. Embrace guerrilla self care, and laugh with lightness on the self development path.
Nikki Eisenhauer is an International Life Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor, Yoga and Meditation Teacher. This show is designed to mindfully be the emotional education so many of us crave; Emotional Badass is where we learn to love ourselves without apology. Emotional Badass is where Moxie Meets Mindful.
To work with Nikki 1:1 - https://www.emotionalbadass.com/coaching
Enroll in our Courses - https://www.emotionalbadass.com/courses
Get bonus content on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/c/emotionalbadass
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Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck - https://getpatternscapes.com/
- Episodes
- 459
- Releases
- Weekly
- Typical length
- 35 min
- On air since
- 2018
- Latest episode
- 2 days ago
Episodes
459 episodes, newest first
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43 min
11 Things Every HSP and Trauma Survivors Needs to Know
Season 9, Episode 466
Show notes
Why do so many of us expect one wise thought to make a painful feeling evaporate on the spot? Processing feelings is like processing food, and I watch so many highly sensitive people and trauma survivors rush the digestion, then call the delay failure. We overthink, wait for life to calm down, and keep kicking the can of our own peace down the road. Peace needs practice now, in this season, because this is your one precious life.
RESOURCES:
• WORK WITH ME 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
• COURSES: https://EmotionalBadass.com/courses
• BONUS CONTENT: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
• NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletterLearn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices
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35 min
You’re Making Your Anxiety Worse Without Realizing It
Season 9, Episode 465
Show notes
What if the very things you do to reduce anxiety are quietly inviting it in? Highly sensitive people very often rehearse anxiety without realizing it. We ask why, search for the culprit, and turn one anxious thought into an investigation that leaves the nervous system spinning. Witnessing your anxiety without needing to fix it offers a gentler path, and it builds the capacity that makes room for more joy, more presence, and more peace.
RESOURCES:
• WORK WITH ME 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
• COURSES: https://EmotionalBadass.com/courses
• BONUS CONTENT: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
• NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletterLearn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices
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32 min
Anxiety Will Never Fully Go Away. Do This Instead
Show notes
Your intelligence can become an anxiety machine. The same sensitive mind that reads a room and anticipates consequences can build a convincing case for worry, and call that worry wise. I’ve watched highly sensitive people write worst case scenario dissertations while refusing to accept that anxiety is part of having a nervous system. Accepting it is actually what reduces it, so you can feel anxiety without handing it authority over your life.
RESOURCES:
• WORK WITH ME 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
• COURSES: https://EmotionalBadass.com/courses
• BONUS CONTENT: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
• NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletterLearn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices
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1 hr 10 min
Going No Contact With Family Is a Last Resort. Ask This First.
Show notes
Going no contact with family is a fracture, a splitting off from the vine you came from, and I will never casually encourage it. Many sensitive people who believe they are setting boundaries are still bargaining, explaining and pleading with relatives who do not value understanding. I share the questions to ask before you decide, and some of my own personal story, so you can count the cost honestly. You can feel grief without regret, and you can love without allowing access.
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33 min
The Boundary Nobody Taught You If You Grew Up in Chaos
Show notes
If you were raised in chaos, the first boundary you need may be one nobody taught you, which is permission to have a limit. Many of us became undercover lawyers, building a courtroom case for every no, because no one showed us that no is a complete thought. We are humans with limited capacity, and I ask what happens to our humanity when we push past it. No one else can give you permission except you, and permission is where the worth sits.
Enroll in this years boundaries Intensive by Oct 12th!:
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58 min
Society Has Changed. You're Not Imagining It.
Season 9, Episode 461
Show notes
If it feels like the world has changed around you, you aren't crazy. We're highly sensitive people living in a culture that runs on speed and scale, like a computer from 1995 running modern software, so of course we're worn out. You're allowed to see what has changed, and you don't have to gaslight yourself into calling it all progress. Our minds are still ours to manage, so we can build our lives on the interior and refuse to live on the edge.
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57 min
The Lindsay Clancy Case. When Empathy Becomes Bias: Signs Compassion Has Lost Emotional Intelligence
Season 9, Episode 460
Show notes
Outside a courthouse, women gathered to defend a mother who strangled her own three children, and I could not stop asking what that revealed about empathy itself. Over empathy can block natural consequences, a kind of codependency wearing empathy's clothes. Real emotional intelligence means holding more than one truth at once. That wider way of caring, without losing yourself inside it, is the kind of empathy I want for all of us.
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26 min
The Rare Combination Every Great Therapist Needs
Season 9, Episode 459
Show notes
High sensitivity can become an extraordinary instrument, but only if you learn how to play it. I explore what actually makes a therapist effective, and it has nothing to do with how much you have suffered. The real work is combining a soft, tender heart with a strong spine, staying close enough to feel someone's pain without rescuing them from it. Labels do not heal. Presence does, and so does holding the lantern without walking their path for them.
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https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries
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47 min
What Does it Actually Take to be a Good Therapist?
Season 9, Episode 458
Show notes
Being highly sensitive and deeply empathetic feels like it should qualify you to help others heal, but wanting to help people as a therapist takes more than good intentions. It takes emotional maturity, boundaries, and backbone. I unpack what real empathy actually requires beyond performative empathy, and why compassion without backbone quietly turns into something else. You cannot teach someone their worth while proving you have not yet learned your own.
https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries
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51 min
Toxic Relationships and Your Nervous System - Part 2
Show notes
Toxic relationships train you to distrust the parts of you that already know something is wrong. This episode looks at how survivors confuse guilt with wrongdoing, lose access to clean anger, and slide into an automatic yes before they even process the ask. Peacekeeping starts to feel like peace, but it never is. Healing begins when you stop waiting to be saved and start trusting your own no again.
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51 min
The Mother Wound Behind Hayden Panettiere's Public Unraveling
Season 9, Episode 456
Show notes
Hayden Panettiere was performing before she could speak, and the applause taught her something dangerous, that praise felt like being loved. This episode traces the mother wound I kept seeing beneath her public unraveling, the same performance based self worth so many of us were raised on, where love got confused with being useful. What are you still carrying that feels too heavy to name? Healing begins the moment you finally set it down.
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48 min
What Toxic Relationships Actually Do to Your Nervous System - Part 1
Show notes
Toxic relationships don't just drain our energy or violate our boundaries. They change our relationship with ourselves. For those of us who are highly sensitive, toxic dynamics condition our nervous systems to believe that having a boundary will cost us everything. So we stop trying. We go along to get along. Naming how this conditioning works is how we get clarity on what needs healing and start the work of coming back to ourselves.
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
Resources:
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- The Book by Book Club: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/bookclub
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
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26 min
Why Life Keeps Getting Easier the Older you Get
Season 9, Episode 454
Show notes
Turning 46 means listening back to the woman I was at 39, before she knew what was coming. I trace how the emotional muscles built through years of healing changed the way hard things land, and how grief and grace can share the same reflection. For years I believed life simply happened to me. This is about claiming our birthright, the truth that we build the lives we love through countless small choices, and growing older can mean growing freer.
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28 min
The Health Crisis Hiding Inside Your Stress Habit
Show notes
Stress has become so normalized we call it smart, even loving, when it is actually wearing down every organ in the body. Learn how stress hormones move through the body with every unresolved worry, and why highly sensitive people are especially prone to this pattern. Chronic stress has shortened lives I love. Real peace begins with recognizing this pattern and finally choosing something different, one precious life at a time. - The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://soulcare.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries?coupon_code=EARLYBIRD
Resources:
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
Follow us on Social Media:
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37 min
The Toxic Load No One Warns People About
Season 9, Episode 452
Show notes
Waking up to the toxic load built into lives we were told are common, safe, and totally normal can feel frightening. Everyday microplastics, seed oils, and even toxic people quietly drain your energy. Learn the small changes that protect your peace and health. What I've learned in 20 years is that a good life is rarely built in one dramatic overhaul. It grows through small, deliberate acts of self-respect. When perfectionism takes the wheel, we freeze or burn out. Channel that fear into grounded action, trust your own authority, and make one cleaner choice today.
Resources:
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
Follow us on Social Media:
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29 min
Your Nervous System Is a Passenger. It Doesn't Get to Drive.
Season 9, Episode 451
Show notes
Healing was never meant to mean I feel calm all the time. In part two, I take apart the misconceptions that keep sensitive people stuck, starting with the belief that a trigger tells me something true about someone else. Often it reveals where my own window still needs cleaning. When a dysregulated nervous system drives the bus, fear makes our decisions for us. Your wisdom belongs in the driver's seat, and I want to help you get it there
Resources:
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
Follow us on Social Media:
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22 min
Fleeing Discomfort is Keeping you Stuck | PART 1
Season 9, Episode 448
Show notes
Nervous system advice has become mental health fast food, quick slogans that teach you to flee every uncomfortable feeling. But sometimes discomfort is danger, and sometimes discomfort is growth. Wisdom is learning the difference. When avoidance becomes your belief system, you're building your life on a foundation of fear and calling it regulation. I reframe common misconceptions to help you emotionally strength train through the discomfort instead of around it.
RESOURCES
• THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries
• WORK WITH ME 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
• INTRO TO BOUNDARIES https://EmotionalBadass.com/intro
• 30 DAYS TO PEACE: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace
• NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP: https://EmotionalBadass.com/narc
• THE FREE MORNING ROUTINE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning
• PATREON: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
• WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter
• PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com
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57 min
Your Gut Health, Serotonin, and What Dr. Arwen Podesta Sees That Other Doctors Miss
Show notes
Most people walk out of a psychiatrist's office with a prescription and not much else. Dr. Arwen Podesta works differently, looking under the hood for root cause instead of just managing symptoms. We get into the gut and brain as a power couple, why more serotonin lives in your belly than your head, the amino acids your stressed system might be starving for, and how to come off medications safely when you've been on them too long. If you've ever felt dismissed, over-medicated, or like your body knows something your prescription doesn't, this one is for you.
Dr. Arwen Podesta Resources:
• Website: http://www.podestawellness.com/
• Website: http://www.drarwen.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podesta.wellness
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodestaPsychiatry/
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/arwen-podesta-md-8a396042
• Hooked Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1457546078Emotional Badass:
• WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
• INTRO TO BOUNDARIES https://EmotionalBadass.com/intro
• THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries
• 30 DAYS TO PEACE: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace
• NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP: https://EmotionalBadass.com/narc
• THE FREE MORNING ROUTINE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning
• PATREON: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
• WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter
• PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com LISTEN TO THE PODCAST: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emotional-badass/id1363543523 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/60zP5sp5hWdFFuL5CFtu5m FOLLOW US: YT: https://www.youtube.com/@EmotionalBadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadassLearn more about your ad choices. Visit https://megaphone.fm/adchoices
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30 min
You Shame Yourself First, So They Can't
Show notes
Shame is the swampy, cracked foundation underneath every boundary that keeps crumbling on you, and most people have no idea it's there. Understanding where your shame came from, even knowing it belonged to the people who hurt you, rarely dissolves it. We learn to shame ourselves first, a twisted attempt at control that only buries us deeper. Real change asks for something far more human than knowledge: the slow, layer-by-layer work of emotional strength training that lets peace become your foundation again.
Resources:
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- The Book by Book Club: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/bookclub
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
Follow us on Social Media:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass
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19 min
10 Ways Shame Sabotages HSPs
Show notes
Shame rarely walks into the room and introduces itself. It hides as anxiety, hypervigilance, the survival mode that lingers no matter how much work you've done. We sensitive types get exceptionally good at noticing what's wrong with us and mistake that scanning for self-awareness. Real self-awareness doesn't wear us out. Come sit with the ten ways shame disguises itself, because there's so much joy waiting on the other side.
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
Resources:
- Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
- 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
- Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro
- Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck https://www.getpatternscapes.com
- Join the Patreon Community: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass
- Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning
- Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter
- Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations
Follow us on Social Media:
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass
IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass
FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass
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