We navigate the complexities of relationships, particularly the mother-child dynamic. We delve into personal experiences and professional insights, spotlighting the emotional minefield of Mother's Day and discussing healing through the lens of Maya Angelou's 'Letter to My Daughter.'

Despite living in an information age, the healing we seek is often found in doing rather than thinking. Embracing playfulness and silliness is not only a way to heal a fried nervous system, but it also helps us transition from a survival mindset to a thriving one.

While most parent strive to provide a safe and nurturing environment, some parents are emotionally abusive and react with anger, frustration, and rage at their children. This creates a hostile home environment that leaves a lasting impact on a childs emotional well-being.

Childhood sexual abuse is something I want to discuss more about because most people, even most mental health professionals, avoid or dodge it. One of the reasons is because we don’t have great dialogue around sex in general. In our American society, we have very mixed messages about puritanism and over-the-top sexuality.

The wisdom of a natural child's tantruming release. Helping to heal childhood trauma and emotional neglect through permission for the body to release emotion vs. stuffing it down and controlling it. We look at the the peril in trying to control emotion vs. release it in a healthy way.

What many of us are dealing with is having grown up in heavily critical and negative households and circumstances and personalities and that leave us with low self worth and esteem. Innerchild work meets us in the psychological spots where we are stuck, stunted, and lost.

In this week's episode, Nikki discusses how to give children the opportunity to build the emotional muscles that help them navigate the world, build critical thinking, confidence, empathy, self worth, connection to community, empowerment, resiliency, and self respect---the very things that make them depression and anxiety resistant.

In loving memory of Thich Nhat Hahn, one of my spiritual fathers. I share some of his wisdom from my favorite book of his, Reconciliation: Healing the Innerchild. He was a master at teaching us how to mature and love ourselves.

I share a story from my childhood, discuss how our mental health struggles develop and model a simple soul care inner-child dialogue. I briefly discuss Dissociative Identity Disorder, too.

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.

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.

Wonder and simplicity are available to all of us. These are powerful tools of lightness, joy, and peace that can (believe it or not!) slow down the experience of time to make us feel as if we have more. These tools help us increase the quality of each moment of living. This is healing. This is growth. This is thriving. Light and love and wonder.

Communication holds much of our connection. In this week's episode we explore the art form of communication from adult to child or adult to inner child through curiosity, hope, empathy, love, sharing, seed planting, sensory memory, and silly goose-ing (a Nikki-ism, for sure.) Light and love, Nikki

Awakenings mature us, force listening & expansion that turns into wisdom. Other human beings help us trust reality & our experience. As we mature, old ideas of youth have fallen away, ideals replace reality. In healing, we learn to accept the inadequacies & immaturity of others & ourselves while we grow into more adequacy, efficacy, & responsibility. By therapeutically providing a positive energy & lessons for our inner children, we fill in our voids, & maturity expands

Many of you have probably heard of the ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.) Here, I break down the emotional and psychological effects of each adverse childhood experience, which completely muck up our natural, healthy boundaries and limits. Because of those experiences, we end up working a lifetime to re-calibrate them. This is one of the main reasons I teach the boundaries course. There's still a few days to sign up at: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries

Exploring the Book Toxic Parents by Susan Forward Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life, levels of dysfunction, healing and boundaries.

So. I want to offer a check in with your inner child and a sneaky little powerful trigger for HSPs and Survivors within this pandemic. If you grew up with uncertainty, emotional/physical neglect, spiritual disconnection, high tension, high fear, high stress, and feel a general sense in life of waiting for the other shoe to drop, then I'm feeling called to create this episode for you. For exclusive episodes visit https://www.patreon.com

Nikki discusses Dynamics of Love, Trust, Trauma Bonding, Addiction, hope, healing, childhood abuse, enmeshment, disentanglement, Stockholm syndrome, work ethic and workaholism, comfort vs. complacency, manipulation, security, earning trust, self respect, self trust.

Understanding why we resist what's healthy and how to speed up and maximize the potential of our healing work.