Exploring the intricate connections between hypervigilance, PTSD, early childhood psychology, and overall mental health, we delve deep into the ways our earliest experiences shape our reactions and coping mechanisms later in life. For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) and those on a journey of self-improvement, understanding these relationships offers a path to healing and growth.

In this week's episode we are exploring self discipline as it relates to authoritarian and passive parenting styles, depression, and ADD or ADHD. Nikki discusses what to practice to reduce hyper vigilance and overthinking as we move through life's feelings and endless unknowns.

In this week’s episode we discuss mindfulness vs hyper vigilance, breaking down defensiveness, and explore how to use beautiful stubbornness.

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.

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.

We explore the pitfalls of hypervigilance & continued anger & outrage in advocacy, especially for people who are working to heal trauma & struggle to keep the body in a state of calm. To thrive as empaths we must understand how we react & take radical ownership over the state of our own mind-bodies. This year has shown me that the work of emotional boundaries & radical permission to do what's necessary to heal--even when it's unpopular--has never been more important.

Letting go of hyper vigilance, sneaky codependency issues, self worth, self love, self esteem, manifesting expansion, processing mistakes.