Maybe this is one of the most important points, that the people ready to work with me, my people

understand that the goal isn't to never be triggered if we are alive. We're going to get triggered.

Trauma history or not? The goal isn't to build a life so carefully curated and controlled

that nothing ever disturbs your peace. The goal is capacity

within your nervous system and being. The goal is emotional strength training towards that capacity.

The goal is becoming the kind of person who can hold more life without becoming ungrounded without losing themselves.

The goal is learning how to return to center more quickly. The goal is learning to discern discomfort

from danger and use discomfort as teacher. The goal is learning how to stay grounded while

life continues lifeing all around us.

That's the work.

And if you're listening right now wondering whether you're ready for this work,

whether you're for lack of a better way to say it, my kind of person, here's a simple check-in list.

Hello, welcome to the show.

This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.

I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.

And on today's episode, we're exploring why some HSPs grow and others stay stuck.

Many years ago, I started noticing something interesting, a pattern.

The people who get the most out of working with me are rarely the people that are in the most pain.

They're usually the people who are the most ready.

And what I mean by ready isn't that they're perfectly grounded or healed or great at taking notes during our sessions.

Ready doesn't mean they're meditating daily or have amazing

morning routines. Ready doesn't mean that they're never anxious or overwhelmed. It's not that they

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