Discover how emotional expression empowers Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) to recover from trauma, build inner strength, and improve mental health through vulnerability.

Learn how Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) can increase their emotional intelligence and savvy to improve mental health and protect against manipulation and emotional overwhelm.

Discover therapeutic lessons from Michael Scott in "The Office" for improved mental health in HSPs.

Join us in this enlightening journey of self-discovery as we explore the intricate relationship between instinct, intuition, and anxiety, and their impact on mental health. In this episode, we delve into the essence of self-awareness, understanding the delicate balance between intuitive wisdom and intellectual knowledge.

In this episode we delve into essential emotional guidelines for the new year, placing a special focus on the unique aspects of HSP mental health. We underscore the need for patience during the healing journey, the value of remaining grounded in the present moment, and the power of favoring intuition over anxiety.

In the journey between calm and panic, managing anxiety involves recognizing our innate power to control our response to stress. Embracing stillness, making decisions in a state of calm, and using mindful breathing are key strategies. Beyond seeking quick fixes, it's essential to fully feel and process our emotions.

Today we delve into the transformative concept of "mattering" as an essential component for personal well-being and a safeguard against destructive emotional states. Drawing on two decades of psychotherapy experience, I offer a holistic approach to healing.

In the spirit of 'The Don't List' today we go over 19 easy ways to invite misery into your life, from embracing fear and overthinking everything, to politicizing your existence. Instead of promoting positivity and fulfillment, today we explore the practices that ensure misery, like self-sabotage and addiction to low vibe feelings.

We delve into a powerful song that promotes healing and self-discovery, particularly for deeply emotional individuals, trauma survivors, and highly sensitive people; 'Heavy' by Bird Talkers. We discuss the importance of moving beyond the mental realm and embracing experience as a means to heal, addressing the roots of loneliness, and the necessity of becoming our own best friends.

We will be covering topics such as developing your intuition, understanding the body's intelligence, and inner child healing. I will be providing simple exercises and strategies so you can start to uncover and strengthen your intuition. So, how can we develop our intuition?

It's a common dilemma for empaths, HSPs, survivors, and seekers alike: how can intuition be used as an exercise for our healing and growth? We often feel stuck between head knowledge and the unknown, and it's difficult to decipher emotion and our response to it.

Today I'm going to define and differentiate trauma, drama, and theatrics-- and I hope sharing my process of self discovery when it comes to the difference between these helps you see, understand, and ultimately guide yourself away from unnecessary drama and toward easier healing by better respecting your most precious recourses of time and energy.

In this week's episode, Nikki breaks down what you need to become artful with boundaries to be able to give yourself structure, security, and sanity. Understand the power of prioritizing peace and nervous system regulation while letting go of energy zapping people pleasing. Grow self worth and esteem as well as insight and compassion to avoid the codependent trap of approval seeking.

In this week's episode, Nikki shares tips and simple strategies to expand intuition and resist the pattern of anxiety or anxious overthinking.

I share a whole lot in this episode on my personal journey with detachment as a tool, breaking down how this important tool is necessary for maturity, peace, emotional freedom, healing and insecure attachment style. 

Embracing change and using the wisdom of the seasons as an experiential exercise to help us see where we are now as we embrace the next seasons of our lives. There is winter, spring, summer and fall. What would happen to the earth if a season stuck? Really think about that for a min. Highly sensitive people can get stuck in a season. Are you stuck in a season or are you flowing through them?

Embracing difference as teacher. In this week's episode we explore themes of empathy, narcissism, poverty, wealth, understanding and anger. Nikki shares through her experiences with her grandmothers.

Whoohooo 2022! In this week's episode we embrace the feeling of satisfaction. Self care and learning to live with more ease through flexing the muscle of satisfaction.

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.

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.