Emotional Badass Podcast

Where Moxie Meets Mindful

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.

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  • Hosted by Nikki Eisenhauer M.ED. LPC, LCDC, International Life Coach and Psychotherapist, Licensed Professional Counselor, Yoga and Meditation Teacher. Emotional Badasses are survivors, thrivers, seekers, healers, HSP’s, and empaths! Expand and awaken to your higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey mind of modern society with a weekly wellness podcast, spiritual tips, healing lessons of wisdom, meditations, mantras, and interviews.

    Connect deeply with yourself and safe others. In this mental health podcast, 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 personal development, and mental health path.

    This podcast is designed to mindfully be the emotional education so many of us crave, and where we learn to love ourselves without apology. Emotional Badass is where Moxie Meets Mindful. To get exclusive episodes visit our Patreon.

    • Top 10 in Mental-Health

    • Top 50 in Health & Fitness

    • Top 1000 Podcasts of All Time on iTunes

    • Downloaded in over 100 countries

    • 🏆Semifinalist Health | People's Choice Podcast Awards 2020

  • Nikki Eisenhauer is an International Life Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor, and Psychotherapist, from New Orleans. She continues building a global healing community on the podcast 'Emotional Badass’, downloaded in over 100 countries and ranked in the top 10 Mental Health podcasts on iTunes in 2020. Nikki was recently featured as a mental health professional on the nationally syndicated TV show, ‘The List’. Learn More

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Silence your Inner Critic and Live a More Fulfilling Life: the ‘Good-Enough’ Principle and 5 Strengths Exercise.

How to silence your inner critic and live a more fulfilling life. In this episode you will learn: 1. How the inner critic or inner bully can touch nearly every waking and sleeping moment of our lives 2. How suicide is often suggested by the inner critic, and how this can be prevented 3. How authenticity is everything, and how it is available for everyone.

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HSPs and the Guru of Illness

In this week's episode, Nikki breaks down and uses illness as a guru in the quest to grow ourselves, heal, and shed what no longer serves. Explore the trappings of critical self talk influenced by what is happening in our bodies before we know our bodies are fighting an illness.

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Depression and Poetry

Depression invites us to resist what's new and novel or different when exactly what we need to get out of depression is newness, novelty, and difference. In this week's episode we look at poetry through the lenses of 'from the wound' and from our healing to add to our healing tool belts.

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Gillian Tietz | Sober Powered Podcast & the Science Behind Addiction, Alcoholism, & Her Journey into Sobriety

I am excited to share Gillan Tietz to discuss her journey to sobriety. Biochemist by day, Sober Powered Podcast host and producer by night, we discuss the brain and body science behind our addictions. She shares how drinking affected her mental health, and how she developed the emotional resiliency to recover from alcoholism.

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Depression, Regression, Empowerment, Self Care - PART 1

This episode is my longest solo episode ever, so it's broken into 2 parts. I share my mental mindset tips that helped pull me out of the hole. I want people to know they have power to ward off depression, own who they are, find truths, & plow through to the other side. We can heal & get to emotional security, even if we feel beyond broken

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Grief and Depression - A New Lens and Tool

Nuanced grief vs free-standing depression. Increasing understanding of our self development journeys; grieving values, beliefs, false stories, time periods, freedom to explore naturally.

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Seek Inspiration Everywhere as a Mindfulness Strategy to Combat Anxiety and Depression

Mindfulness brings awareness that gives us the space to make changes, to shape how we process our worlds actively vs. slipping into a powerlessness; we have such power to shape our world view and by proxy our moods, feelings, and mindset. I would like to invite you into my process by sharing my City gal self to show you how I've trained myself to lift myself up.

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Our Courses

  • The Boundaries Course

    Learn to create and maintain boundaries, to help cultivate peace and relieve stress.

  • Actionable Soul Care Strategies

    Tips, tricks, and videos of actionable steps and strategies you can implement to improve your mental health.