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?

We discuss the different types of love and how to manage our expectations as empaths and highly sensitive people. Nikki reads from Etan Boritzer's book "What is Love?" Come find Emotional Badass on Patreon to access bonus content, the monthly video live stream, behind the scenes clips, & opportunities to work with Nikki in group format www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

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?

How to reclaim a morning to take your power back, simple strategy to affirm, brighten, and live more fully. Come find Emotional Badass on Patreon to access bonus content, the monthly video live stream, behind the scenes clips, & opportunities to work with Nikki in group format www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

Understand how listing sneakily steals our energy. The Don't List is a much loved and easy-peasy tool for recovering people pleasers, perfectionists & over functioning people.

Nikki's first interview with Deja Osbourne. Find her work and store at www.dejadrewit.com use code BADASS to save 15% on art prints, decks, and stickers. Check out her newest deck "The Personal Power" oracle deck, and the "My Quality Time Self Care" activity deck. Don't forget to download the coloring book and journal gift here for patrons on the first tier. This is a sneak peak into her new personal power deck.

In this meditation, we explore body scanning via intention, attention, and gentle, basic deepening breath-work. We can learn how to put down the weight of the world to manage chronic pain and tension using the simple tool of progressive awareness and relaxation.

Self Care as HSPs & Empaths, limits, managing hope around Energy Vampires, listening to our mind, body, spirit as healthcare, learning from The Sopranos, and taking personal responsibility for our lives and well-being.

We talk about the book The Emotion Thesaurus: A Writer's Guide to Character Expression by Becca Puglisis, Angela Ackerman as a mindfulness tool, break down the feeling Embarrassment, consider the parallels to trauma and anxiety in recovery for HSPs, and open to therapeutic healing and understanding in our everyday existence.

Nikki discusses post traumatic stress and the many ways we process it. We talk about body memories vs mind memories and the 3 F's, fight, flight, freeze, as they relate to highly sensitive people.

A new way to approach finding the right healer for HSPs, Empaths, & Trauma Survivors. Open to trusting intuition, asserting needs with clarity, getting beyond the basics of credentialed professionals, to find fulfillment. Nikki shares a story about meeting Lisa Tahir, Life Coach and Intuitive Therapist in New Orleans and Los Angeles and the moment their work began in perfect awkward anxiety, personal responsibility, & kind patience.

From loneliness to friendships, Nikki shares the spark of deep friendship, what safe & empathic healthy relationships feel like, the self care of listening intuitively and allowing the Universe to Guide us toward connection vs working hard to relate from a place of fear, loving conflict and the possibilities of deep relationships as a self-esteem/soul care practice to lift ourselves up to ensure we require ourselves to never settle for less than lifted-up.

From Louisiana & Nola roots, we examine the culture of change, fast changers, slow changers, and non-changers. How to deal with common core issue of interpersonal and intra-personal change as well as self-care, conflict, and upset. We can begin to engage in mindful soul care self talk for healthier present moment awareness and deeper insight.

Importance of Self Talk as a powerful tool to address Suicidal Ideation and introduction to a technique I call 'Addressing the Gremlin.' Truth speaking in emotion, anger and grief work, and a heart centered meditation as self care.

Get comfortable with uncomfortable, add to our healing tool-bags by embracing, stretching, meditating, working at our growth edge to increase potential healing of anxiety, depression, ptsd, addiction, relationships, etc.

On today's episode we talk ego strength, self care, self worth, self esteem, confidence and imposter syndrome. We explore patterns for HSPs and Trauma Survivors and the importance of embracing self reliance and boundaries.

On this weeks episode, Nikki talks The Law of Attraction & reviews her favorite deck of cards. Topics covered include reframing negative outlooks, adopting a positivity & affluence mindset while dealing with fear of debt, developing mindful energy work, and examining ambition & procrastination. Cards: The Law of attraction - Little Reminders by Amy Zerner, Monty Farber.

Thank you HSP workshop participants. Nikki discusses tips to practice happiness from the inside out, and build self esteem with a simple meditation exercise for the beginners mind.

In this episode, Nikki talks gratitude for this powerful HSP tribe--downloaded EB in 37 countries in 5 weeks--and how to open to hope, faith, empowered, modern spirituality--even when the timing is 'off'. Explore the big, surprising possibilities of 'doing the work,' and stepping into courage, vulnerability in speaking up, out, and truthfully.

What does being in "alignment" mean? Strategies to get in tune and centered. How alignment fits into the world of clinical psychology and holistic healing.