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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Depression and Poetry

Depression invites us to resist what's new and novel or different when exactly what we need to get out of depression is newness, novelty, and difference. In this week's episode we look at poetry through the lenses of 'from the wound' and from our healing to add to our healing tool belts.

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The Big Question. Children or Childfree?

One of, if not the biggest questions of our lives is to have children, or not to have children. Few topics are as complicated as this one. This episode is an attempt to scratch at the surface of this deep deep question that we all face. Should you have children, or go childfree?

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In Loving Memory of Thich Nhat Hanh

In loving memory of Thich Nhat Hahn, one of my spiritual fathers. I share some of his wisdom from my favorite book of his, Reconciliation: Healing the Innerchild. He was a master at teaching us how to mature and love ourselves.

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Gillian Tietz | Sober Powered Podcast & the Science Behind Addiction, Alcoholism, & Her Journey into Sobriety

I am excited to share Gillan Tietz to discuss her journey to sobriety. Biochemist by day, Sober Powered Podcast host and producer by night, we discuss the brain and body science behind our addictions. She shares how drinking affected her mental health, and how she developed the emotional resiliency to recover from alcoholism.

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The Wisdom of the Seasons

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?

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Reasons you Might Feel Disembodied

Reasons for feeling disembodiment while exploring the idea that the body and mind communicate, relate, grow together. How the mind and body attempt to take care us and journaling questions to take this episode a little bit further.

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Satisfaction

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.

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Goodbyes and the Law of Attraction 2021

We practice saying goodbye to what no longer serves us. We learn to let go of worry for the sake of worry. We let go of covid strategy stressing, let go of perfectionism, of caring what other people think, of people pleasing tendencies, of fear of loneliness, denying intuition, and influencer enabling of dysfunctional ideals. We instead give a happy hello to 2022, and practice the law of attraction to start manifesting the healing we want.

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Our Relationship with Spirituality

Letting go of desperation through understanding and opening to the possibility of spiritual connection in your own way. Cultivating faith and peace through a healing spiritual connection is available to all of us, if we want it.

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Gratitude, Heart Centered Lifestyle, Dogs as Gurus

In this week's episode I discuss gratitude as a heart centered lifestyle and walk you through how to intend and feel the healing emotions of gratitude and compassion in the heart. We explore dogs as man's best friend and commit to love ourselves as they love us, unconditionally.

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Parenting as an HSP While Healing

In this week's episode I discuss why vs. how as a healing tool of action in healing, identifying the holes that childhood trauma creates so that we no longer trip into them as people and as parents. We explore choices not power struggles, owning our human flaws, owning reactivity with a simple plan, exploring what we model for the children who watch us, understanding the roots of manipulation, helping a child find their assertive voice.

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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.