It's a common dilemma for empaths, HSPs, survivors, and seekers alike: how can intuition be used as an exercise for our healing and growth? We often feel stuck between head knowledge and the unknown, and it's difficult to decipher emotion and our response to it.

This is a meditation series continuation from The Mermaid Meditation, and I know many of you really liked it--it was shared so much that many new listeners found me because of that meditation so, this is the next in the series.

Today we further explore Drama and go over some practical tips that can help us identify drama and suicidal thought.

Today I'm going to define and differentiate trauma, drama, and theatrics-- and I hope sharing my process of self discovery when it comes to the difference between these helps you see, understand, and ultimately guide yourself away from unnecessary drama and toward easier healing by better respecting your most precious recourses of time and energy.

In this episode, Nikki and Crystal sit down and discuss archetypes and why raising our vibe is so important for mental health and healing.

In this post, I'll be discussing 3 ways music can be used as a tool for self-care. People often struggle with family relationships, personal growth, and loneliness. Music can be a great way to help us process our feelings and get to a place of acceptance. I'll be sharing a song that helped me through my own process of grief and healing. I hope you'll find it helpful too.

Why being honest with yourself and taking responsibility for your own happiness is important in relationships. I discuss compatibility, red flags, "bumper car mentality" in dysfunctional relationships, and how to break these patterns. You will learn why being honest with yourself and taking responsibility for your own happiness is important in relationships, and how chemistry can paint red flags white.

How to silence your inner critic and live a more fulfilling life. In this episode you will learn: 1. How the inner critic or inner bully can touch nearly every waking and sleeping moment of our lives 2. How suicide is often suggested by the inner critic, and how this can be prevented 3. How authenticity is everything, and how it is available for everyone.

Childhood sexual abuse is something I want to discuss more about because most people, even most mental health professionals, avoid or dodge it. One of the reasons is because we don’t have great dialogue around sex in general. In our American society, we have very mixed messages about puritanism and over-the-top sexuality.

On Todays show I'm sitting down with Eric Zimmer from The One You Feed Podcast, where we discuss addiction, growth, and recovery.

There is a misconception that sexually abused people are delicate. They are quite strong for living through such a violation. In this episode we break down the effects of stranger sexual abuse and ongoing sexual abuse by a care taker, and review guidance on how and where to focus healing in recovery. Learn to care for your inner and outer environment and create sanctuary.

In this week's episode, Nikki breaks down and uses illness as a guru in the quest to grow ourselves, heal, and shed what no longer serves. Explore the trappings of critical self talk influenced by what is happening in our bodies before we know our bodies are fighting an illness.

Nikki chats with Crystal to discuss the need for discernment in healing relationships, marketing, pressure sales, the importance of trusting and acting from intuition, healing after falling into the web, subtle gas lighting and values misalignment. This episode may be of particular interest to therapists and coaches who see, feel, and help others through the discombobulation of subtle manipulation.

This week's episode is a story highlighting finding my voice, speaking up, racial tensions in Louisiana in the 90s, workplace family systems, work ethic, transmuting fear through experience.

The wisdom of a natural child's tantruming release. Helping to heal childhood trauma and emotional neglect through permission for the body to release emotion vs. stuffing it down and controlling it. We look at the the peril in trying to control emotion vs. release it in a healthy way.

What many of us are dealing with is having grown up in heavily critical and negative households and circumstances and personalities and that leave us with low self worth and esteem. Innerchild work meets us in the psychological spots where we are stuck, stunted, and lost.

Exploring personal power and personal responsibility as cornerstones of good mental health through the quotes of best selling author, change artist, and mental health professional Dr. Robert Anthony.

How to deal with the story maker of the mind by listening with the heart. Why we build up walls and how to take them down. This years boundaries course is filling up quick! Register today: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries

In This week's episode, Soul Care Coach Crystal Catalina and Nikki dive deeply into Crystal's expertise and journey on the importance of peace, presence, environment, celebrating progress and not perfection, and future self identity. Come hang out with both of us, participate by submitting a question for a Special Bonus Livestream at the $5 level at https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass Wednesday 8/24/22. Book with Crystal or get on Nikki's waiting list now at https://www.emotionalbadass.com/coaching

On today's show; Part 2 of accepting the uncomfortableness in life. How we can use Stoicism to manage the struggle of it with a peaceful warriors mentality. We learn to accept the real challenges of being alive while looking for the beauty and fortification within it all.