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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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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Emily Schromm Interview

Nikki interviews Emily Schromm, Personal trainer, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and serial entrepreneur. They talk gut health, adrenal fatigue, and empaths. Find Em, her courses, tea, weight training invention, Strength Training Gym in Denver, and podcast Meathead Hippie at https://www.emilyschromm.com

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Nikki's Birthday Presence

On being present in body, accepting ourselves in each change, each present moment, rewriting old messaging to bring more gratitude, joy, and the superpower of selective stubbornness.

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Chester Street Foundation & Shawn Alex Nemeth Interview

Interview with author, survivor, Chester Street Foundation Founder, Life Coach, Shawn Alex Nemeth. Join Nikki and Shawn discussing recovery from childhood trauma, misdiagnosis in mental health, PTSD, sociopathic and narcissistic traits, and the road to awakening and healing. Thank you patreon supporters for supporting Shawn's Foundation through our pay-it-forward program

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How to Process Feeling Used or Screwed Over

The process of feeling, owning the life lesson, softening with compassion, and releasing the messy, raw-hurt of feeling used. We are all paying our Karmic debts. How to not take anything personally, inspired by The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz.

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HSPs, Empaths, Survivors, & Chronic pain Issues

Breaking the looping of chronic pain; perspective on the link between chronic pain, suicidal ideation, and fight or flight. Tips to help your nervous system rest, restore, and mend, even when it all feels chronic.

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Shame Absorption and Release

Shame absorption and the process of acknowledgment, feeling, release. A story about Nikki from Jr. High and the subtle, not-so-subtle, life experiences that overly inform the HSP; how to safely break through walls.

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The 5 Generations: iGen, Millennials, Gen X, Baby Boomers, & The Silent Generation

Currently, five generations make up our society. Each of those five generations has an active role in the marketplace. Depending on the specific workplace, the workforce includes four to five generations. Here are the birth years for each generation: iGen: 1996 – TBD Millennials: 1977 – 1995 Gen X: 1965 – 1976 Baby Boomers: 1946 – 1964 Silent Generation: 1945 and before

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Understanding the complexity of the documentary, Leaving Neverland

Using Nikki's story to explore feelings and the complex documentary Leaving Neverland and Michael Jackson. Stages of recovery, letting go of familial secrets, cycles of abuse, grooming, recanting abuse, the power of celebrity and the inner child, low empathy parents. Tips for mental health counselors, social workers, and healers in the art of healing trauma and holding space for survivors.

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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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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.