Emotional Badass

Are you struggling to embrace ease in your life? Exploring the reasons easy isn't easy for HSPs, Survivors, and Empaths, to gain inner permission to practice and invite more ease into this life that brings enough of it's own struggle. By owning these dynamics we no longer accidentally self sabotage with the limiting belief that ease is lazy and struggle is right. Allowing ease is the ultimate self...

How often do you embrace wonder in your daily life? Wonder and simplicity are available to all of us. These are powerful tools of lightness, joy, and peace that can (believe it or not!) slow down the experience of time to make us feel as if we have more. These tools help us increase the quality of each moment of living. This is healing. This is growth. This is thriving. Embracing wonder can signif...

Feeling overwhelmed by heartbreak and emotional pain? In this week's episode I discuss the difference between story and feeling and how to get to the other side of a highly sensitive broken heart as quickly as possible. Healing is learning to love ourselves through the toughest of human feelings while letting go of the stories that bind us. How and why I allowed myself to open up to love again aft...

How can you cultivate a safe space within for better mental health? A guided meditation for seekers desiring to deepen their connection with self and cultivate a safe space within. You count you matter, your healing is important. This meditation is an exercise for the mind muscle to strengthen our ability to control thought and fear instead of thoughts and fear controlling us. This guided meditati...

Have you ever questioned the efficacy of "safe spaces"? You're not alone. If you’ve ever been in a supposed safe space that didn’t feel so safe, this episode is for you! In accepting what IS over an IDEAL, we empower ourselves to do the real work of becoming safer within. We delve into the limitations of external safe spaces and the importance of cultivating internal safety through self-love and s...

Do you know the best way to communicate with highly sensitive children? Communication holds much of our connection. In this week's episode we explore the art form of communication from adult to child or adult to inner child through curiosity, hope, empathy, love, sharing, seed planting, sensory memory, and silly goose-ing (a Nikki-ism, for sure.) Discover how validating their experiences, fosterin...

Are you struggling with grief and loss? I hope this week's episode shines light on the subtle ways we may be grieving as we say goodbye to 2020. Understanding the five stages of grief—denial, anger, depression, bargaining, and acceptance—is crucial for mental health, especially for Highly Sensitive People (HSPs). A simple review of the stages of grief and a simple exercise to face our personal tru...

Did you know Hypervigilance, a common symptom of trauma? It keeps the nervous system in a heightened state, making it difficult for HSPs to trust their gut feelings. Learn how to manage this exhausting emotional state and protect your mental health. We explore the pitfalls of hypervigilance & continued anger & outrage in advocacy, especially for people who are working to heal trauma & struggle to...

Are pride and shame holding you back from seeking help? Discussing pride, help, shame and how to get out of our own way to receive help when we need it. This episode confronts the long arm of low self worth and helps us confront our do-it-yourself-demons that conspire to keep us in an old pattern of struggle. I announce our newest Patreon-Pay-It-Forward recipient & largest donation to date, Denver...

Ever wondered how synchronicity and spirituality impact mental health? We explore empathy & compassion to manage pain & defensiveness. Synchronicity on the seeker's path has grown me, like the Universe reaching out to say, 'I see you & hold you.' I describe the impact of one of my Spiritual Mothers, friends, & colleagues Lisa Tahir. I'm grateful Lisa gave me permission to read a visualization from...

How can understanding archetypes like the bully, victim and addict improve your mental health journey? By picking battles we can avoid burnout and have the energy to fight the ones we decide need fighting. We work to hold space for our light & dark selves with wholeness while letting go of taking things personally. In this work we stay connected to true self vs. chasing the unavailable ideal which...

Is your inner critic sabotaging your mental health? I've never met a highly sensitive person who didn't have an overdeveloped inner-critic. This inner bully robs our progress, dis-empowers, and devalues who we are, especially when our energies are low. Without addressing the inner critic, we are at risk of digging mental health holes that become deeper and more difficult to crawl out of. You were...

This weeks episode is about coming back to ourselves through the power of intention for our own mental health. I believe every human being can thrive and bloom. Our power to set ourselves up for emotional, mental, physical and spiritual success lies in our mindful choices as we learn more and more, year to year, about who we are and what conditions we can create to thrive. Explore ways to create f...

Awakenings mature us, force listening & expansion that turns into wisdom. Other human beings help us trust reality & our experience. As we mature, old ideas of youth have fallen away, ideals replace reality. In healing, we learn to accept the inadequacies & immaturity of others & ourselves while we grow into more adequacy, efficacy, & responsibility. By therapeutically providing a positive energy...

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...