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.
Subscribe on your favorite platform
-
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
-
Want to hear exclusive episodes not released anywhere else? Then check out our Patreon today and get immediate access to hundreds of hours of audio episodes, video livestreams, wellness tips, and become part of our community of seekers!
Thank you to our sponsors for supporting the show!
Part of the Airwave Media Podcast Network
Search the Podcast Archives
Episode Tags
- ADD 1
- Abuse 14
- Alcohol 3
- Anger 8
- Bullying 4
- Childhood 37
- Codependency 7
- Covid 4
- Crystal Catalina 4
- Depression 15
- Detachment 2
- Disassociation 4
- Emotions 71
- Existentialism 1
- Faith 1
- Family 24
- Fatigue 4
- Focus 3
- Gratitude 11
- Grief 10
- Guilt 2
- Healers 7
- Healing 51
- High Sensation 4
- Hope 1
- Hypervigilance 7
- Introverts 6
- Lonliness 7
- Love 3
- Manifesting 5
- Manipulation 19
- Men 1
- Mindfulness 36
- Money 10
- Music 3
- Nutrition 2
- Overthinking 8
- PTSD 11
- Parenting 12
- People Pleasing 7
- Perfectionism 6
- Pets 4
- Relationships 12
- Resiliency 12
- Sadness 1
- Self Esteem 16
- Self Love 11
- Self-Care 24
- Sex 1
- Shame 4
Worry and the Emotion Thesaurus
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.
Trauma Dumping and Bad Therapy
In this episode, we break down the impossibility of trauma dumping on a professional therapist and how to take care of your sweet self with compassion if you recognize that past trauma and struggle seems to flood out at inopportune times. You are worth deep self compassion and emotional self acceptance as you walk your healing journey.
Grounding Techniques Part 2 - Tree Visualization
What grounding is, and the part 2 follow up to our first grounding technique. This simple exercise can be done right now to calm and center mind and body. With practice, we let go of hyper vigilance and teach ourselves how to feel safe.
HSPs and Our Relationship with Television
HSPs and TV, the role of tv in a dysfunctional childhood, secret shame and joy, emotional modeling, and the genres and shows that speak to us as a tribe.
From Survive to Thrive - A Strategy for Anxiety & PTSD Recovery
Three steps to inviting and achieving thriving mode. Exploring simplicity and peace to quiet, calm and soothe a healing nervous system.
Boundaries Gratitude, Self Worth, and Codependency
Breaking down boundaries and the relationship between boundary setting, self worth, and codependency. Pouring out gratitude to all of you who are out there seeking, growing, and being the change in the world.
Facing Scary Things
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.
How do you know where to start or focus in healing?
How and where to start the therapeutic process while managing perfectionism, anxiety, fears, and frustrations with a good enough healer. Learning to speak authentically and live in the 'gray' while moving from surviving to thriving.
Emotional Blackmail, Manipulation, and the Ego's Drug of Choice
In this week's episode I'm discussing emotional blackmail and coercion as it relates to Covid and the current political narrative. A confronting episode for our human egos. We cover a lot today, respect, codependency, victim mentality, cult tactics, peer pressure, and manipulation.
The Mermaid Meditation
In this week's episode I'm discussing emotional blackmail and coercion as it relates to Covid and the current political narrative. A confronting episode for our human egos. We cover a lot today, respect, codependency, victim mentality, cult tactics, peer pressure, and manipulation.
The Inner Child's Experience with Codependency
In this week's episode I give voice to the inner child's experience of codependency. In healing we find permission to reparent our inner-selves to grow self worth. Cultivating balance, compassion, gratitude, boundaries and soft place to fall.
A Poem, Prayer, or Meditation for Presence and Self Care
Today I share a poem I wrote for you as a nighttime meditation to center, let go of the day by letting go of anxiety and pressure while practicing the good enough principle.
A lesson from Hopi Indian Chief White Eagle and getting through Covid with Grace, Spirit, and Sanity
In this week's episode I invite listeners to strengthen their spiritual connection as a major tool in self care. This tool helps our egos reject the offerings to drink anger kool-aid that are so wildly popular right now. Light and love. To get exclusive episodes visithttps://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadasss
The Law of Attraction, Spiritual Mothers, and Abraham Hicks
How to align with the law of attraction, happiness is the work, and I discuss my most woo-woo Spiritual mother, Abraham Hicks. The boundaries course is now open https://www.emoitonalbadass.com/boundaries.
The Healing Power of Patience
We examine patience as the missing peace in HSP healing, growing emotional intelligence, and becoming a safe place to fall for our adult and child selves.
23 Similarities that HSPs Share
A list exploring similarities of individuals in our highly sensitive tribe. Sign up for The Boundaries Course at https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries .
How Brain Training can help Highly Sensitive People & ADD with Brain.fm
Nikki has fun and gets excited about science and music with Brain.fm CEO, highly sensitive person, and brain training enthusiast, Dan Clark. For a free 30 day trial visit: https://www.brain.fm/redeem/emotionalbadass To get 20% off your subscription use code: emotionalbadass
Finding Your Purpose and The Law of Attraction
How to get out of our own ways when seeking purpose. In this week's episode I expound on some detraction patterns that can creep into our process as HSPs, empaths, and survivors, so we can respect ourselves and vibe higher.
Simple grounding techniques to help you center mind and body - Part 1
What grounding is, and simple exercises you can do right now to ground, calm, and center mind and body. With practice, we let go of hypervigilance and teach ourselves how to feel safe.
Healthy vs. Toxic Emotion via Anger, Guilt, Fear, Sadness, Loneliness
Exploring the good, the bad, and the ugly of some of the emotions HSPs and survivors struggle the most with. Upping our emotional IQ's results in more self love, more self respect, and more peace.
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.