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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Important Distinctions for Highly Sensitive People and Survivors

In this episode, we delve into the unique strengths and challenges of highly sensitive individuals, particularly in academic and life settings. We explore how structured academic environments often suit their sensitivity, yet life, unlike school, offers no clear syllabus, requiring them to navigate uncertainties and embrace growth through real-life experiences.

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From I'm Sorry to Thank You

In this week's episode Nikki explores the hidden guilt, shame, and hiding behind overuse of the phrase, 'I'm sorry.' Learn how to shift this dynamic to break patterns of narcissistic attraction while growing self esteem, self worth, and upping your emotional IQ.

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Re-framing Our Inner Critic

I've never met a highly sensitive person who didn't have an overdeveloped inner-critic. This inner bully robs our progress, dis-empowers, and devalues who we are, especially when our energies are low. Without addressing the inner critic, we are at risk of digging mental health holes that become deeper and more difficult to crawl out of. You were never meant to be in a hole, rather, you were meant to stand tall and proud at the peak of the mountain of life.

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Forest Meditation - Slow is the Secret Fast

Slowing down is essential in healing and easier said than done. This longer meditation supports rewiring and retraining the nervous system with mindfulness, intention, and grounded calm to slow down to integrate mind and body. Strongly recommended for anyone experiencing, FNET Fear of Not Enough Time and healing performance based esteem or perfectionism.

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Insecurity Can Only be Healed Internally

Thank you Instagram for inspiring this episode! www.instagram.com/nikkieisenhauer A few months ago I made a post about insecurity and so many of you reposted and liked it--insecurity is a hot topic! I hope I honored the inspiration and expanded on the post in this week's episode of Emotional Badass. Would love to hear your thoughts!

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How to Survive Unwanted Criticism

Using the Four Agreements to combat unwanted criticism, healing for codependency and people pleasing, dealing with shame based judgement, using stubbornness positively, rejecting vs. accepting. Find us online at https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

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High Sensation Seeking HSPs

Expanding awareness of High Sensation Seeking High Sensitivity to decrease confusion about introversion and extroversion, increase self acceptance and understanding to better manage mental health care and advocacy within self, social communities, and healthcare.

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How the “Not Good Enough Principle” Robs us of Peace and how to Re-frame our Outlook to Embrace Healing

On this weeks show Nikki examines the "not good enough principle". Where it might originate from, and how it manifests itself in our daily lives. Tips on how to re frame our outlook about ourselves and self worth. It's time for the sensitives, the empaths, the seekers, to embrace healing and growing self worth and esteem, inner motivation for good enough, and let go of the inner bully that creates anxiety and robs us of peace.

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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.