Emotional Badass

Lot's in this episode, Ya'll! I hope this week's episode helps HSPs accept, with love, compassion, and kindness, that our gifts are unique. In letting go there is tremendous power as we experience rebirth through the process of awakening. We can fight ourselves and the world or we can let go and use that energy to heal, live, and expand. So much light and love to all the brave Seekers out there. I...

Many of you have probably heard of the ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences Study.) Here, I break down the emotional and psychological effects of each adverse childhood experience, which completely muck up our natural, healthy boundaries and limits. Because of those experiences, we end up working a lifetime to re-calibrate them. This is one of the main reasons I teach the boundaries course. This ep...

Struggling with meditation? Believe it or not, you don't suck at meditating! I hope this week's meditation episode helps you let go of frustration & resistance to meditating. This is a do less, be effortless, practice ease, and let go of effort-ing kind of meditation. This meditation will be a part of season 3 stripped down meditations available on the Emotional Badass store, release TBD. You can...

Feeling overwhelmed by your high sensitivity? One of the most frequent questions I get asked is some variation of the question 'when will I feel the superpowers of sensitivity' or 'when will I stop resenting that I'm so sensitive' or 'when will this get easier, will it ever be easier?' Learn how to turn it into a superpower by embracing your sensory system and setting strong boundaries. (HSP) High...

Are you harnessing the power of sacred moments in your life? This weeks episode is inspired by a passage from Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening. I hope it helps answer part of the question, ‘What is spiritual Development and how do I do it?’ We get one precious life and we can learn to accept the invitations the Universe gives us to find our higher purpose and get to know ourselves internal by not...

This episode is my longest solo episode ever, so it's broken into 2 parts. Find part 2 on the free section of Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/41758653 & hear me discuss the insanity of circumstances that pushed me to my darkest depression. I share my mental health mindset tips that helped pull me out of the hole. I want people to know they have power to ward off depression, own who they are,...

How empaths experience the world and the permission to explore, expand, and own our callings, to improve our mental health. We explores self esteem, resiliency, challenge, vulnerability, and expression. I hope this week's episode offers a deeper understanding of our highly sensitive empathic gifts, and how to grow into our worth by taking up space and claiming our callings. Shout outs to the coura...

The Bob Ross inspired episode is HERE! Wisdom from one of my favorite Wise Men, The Joy of Painting creator and PBS star, Bob Ross. I share what he meant to me as a child and how I'm channeling his grounded peace. I hope I do his memory justice with this episode. We dive deep into some of his favorite sayings and unpack the wisdom of 'no mistakes, just happy little accidents.' Channeling Bob Ross'...

What are we made of? Have you been thinking about this since hearing the nursery rhyme; snips & snails & puppy dogs' tails? I HAVE. This episode is about the differences & similarities between HSPs & Energy Vampires. It takes understanding of these dynamics for a HSP to shield (with boundaries) against emotional vampire-ing & stop allowing yourself to get sucked in. As adults we can do what we cou...

I share something vulnerable and ripe for judgement in this week's episode. A personal story about the highly sensitive struggle to manage stress, create peace, calm, & act in love. Featuring Queen Dagmar. Most Highly Sensitive People & trauma survivors report a love-hate relationship with high sensitivity. Radical personal assertiveness and acceptance is required (yes I'm saying REQUIRED) to shif...

I'm excited to share with you a passage from a favorite healing book by Paulo Coelho, Warrior of the Light. It inspired a meditation I wrote to help us flow when life throws obstacles in our path. Most of us have heard the fun fact that our bodies are mostly water. I hope this episode and meditation help you feel how powerful you truly are and how you can learn to use your energy & power to flow a...

Hello Tribe! Today we break down what it means to check in with ourselves & grow mindful muscles to take the very best care of deep, expansive selves. A little intuition vs. anxiety, internal vs. external, and oldie-but-goodie borrowed from Alcoholics Anonymous sayings, HALT: exploring Hungry, Angry, Lonely, Tired, as a check in strategy. Sometimes it's the simple things that go over our heads or...

I've had negotiation on my mind, Ya'll. Negotiation. It's as inescapable as grief and we get just as much education in how to do it. Zilch! Nada! Nothing! Sensitives and Survivors can really struggle in the face of the vibes that come from hard-ball negotiation tactics. I hope this week's episode helps shine light on the areas we can own and grow to become better negotiators in life. Light and lov...

Are you aware of the power your imagination holds? Highly sensitive people often use their imagination to anticipate the worst, but what if it could be used to foster positivity and emotional resilience? Nikki Eisenhauer delves into this concept, drawing wisdom from the yoga sutras. She explains how shifting from negative to positive thinking can enhance mental health and well-being. This episode...

On top of the general tensions & chaos of 2020, I'm seeing lots of heartache & change for highly sensitive people. Energies are a-churnin' Ya'll!!!! As we face big changes & big unknowns as a tribe and individually we will be challenged to let go and move on in many ways. I share a story about my old supervisor, Gus, a Spiritual Father, who lovingly helped me when I was a super green therapist & h...

To consider compatibility I had to first understand and accept more about my personality and temperament--not what I thought my temperament and personality were supposed to be, but how I was made, how I am, what's changeable within myself and what isn't. I hope this week's episode opens the conversation of compatibility and workability in partnership to help us strengthen our existing relationship...

Those of us in the Highly Sensitive Tribe can be so so hard on ourselves. I've learned over the years that HSPs and survivors tend to double down on personal pressure to 'just figure it out' when figuring it out might not be on the table in any given moment. This week's episode is about THAT--I share what I've learned to do when I just don't know what to do. Are you an HSP struggling with managing...

Let's talk about burnout compassion fatigue, compartmentalization and denial for our mental health. Therapists are taught about burnout before we see our 1st patient. lots of you know about burnout. I like the physical definitions of burnout to explain how it feels emotionally. "The failure of an electrical device or component through overheating. physical and mental collapse." If you are interest...

Exploring the Book Toxic Parents by Susan Forward Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life, levels of dysfunction, healing and boundaries. Are you an HSP struggling with toxic family dynamics and seeking healing? Discover how Susan Forward’s book "Toxic Parents" provides essential strategies for highly sensitive people to overcome dysfunction and reclaim their lives. Learn why HSPs...

What can be done to combat the alarming Black maternal health crisis? We sit down with Tracy Collins, founder of the National Black Doulas Association, to uncover the problems with healthcare and its impact on Black maternal mortality. Tracy shares her journey from midwifery to creating an organization dedicated to supporting Black birthing families. We discuss the critical differences between doc...

In this episode we read The Book Of Possibility https://www.amazon.com/Book-Possibility-Courtney-Cox-Smith/dp/0578625180 Understanding the primal ways we are programmed to look for problems helps us understand our task to mindfully shift to possibility in the modern world. Honored to read ya'll a book! Find Courtney Cox Smith's The Book of Possibility, now available on Amazon. Curious about how mi...

Sharing some of my own road through poverty, struggle, and humbling myself in the name of survival. I hope it helps anyone who is out there facing economic uncertainty, fear, and (hopefully not) desperation. I name the societal shame trap of facing 'taking a job that's beneath me,' and that financial hardship is a major player in suicidal ideation and a continuation of anxiety/depression and PTSD...

There’s so much for us to learn by observing our relationship to irritability, anxiety, and making mistakes as we evolve, break cycles, and grow emotional intelligence for introverts and extroverts. I hope there’s something in this episode to help us own what needs owning and help us let go of what doesn’t serve us. Might want to pull out a journal for this one! Do you often feel overwhelmed by gu...

If you wait for courage before you act, then this episode is for you! I share how I found courage through the experience of skydiving--I hope it helps you understand your own relationship with bravery and challenge. Light and love! Ever faced a fear so big it paralyzed you? Discover how skydiving taught a highly sensitive person (HSP) to overcome fear and find true courage. Through this exhilarati...

Slowing down is essential in healing and easier said than done. This longer meditation supports rewiring and retraining the nervous system with mindfulness, intention, and grounded calm to slow down to integrate mind and body. Strongly recommended for anyone experiencing, FNET Fear of Not Enough Time and healing performance based esteem or perfectionism. What if you could transform your mental hea...