233: How to Be an Emotional Badass with Nikki Eisenhauer
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
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Trauma is something that no one would choose to go through, but it can also be an opportunity for personal growth and wisdom. We may all have different stories and personal circumstances, but often, the dynamics at play are very similar in terms of how we heal.
In this episode of the podcast, Duane speaks with Nikki Eisenhauer, a psychotherapist, licensed professional counselor, licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor, and life coach specializing in trauma, addiction, grief, and loss in highly sensitive people.
Nikkis is also a yoga and meditation teacher and host of the hit mental health podcast Emotional Badass: Where Moxie Meets Mindful. Through her personal and professional experiences, Nikki encourages us to take charge of our lives, even in the face of pain and suffering. By developing emotional intelligence and resilience, we can create a more peaceful, joyful, and fulfilling life.
Listen in as Nikki shares her story of resilience and emphasizes the importance of emotional resilience in overcoming difficult experiences. The conversation also touches on the topics of sexual abuse and incest, so if this is something that’s difficult for you, please approach it with caution.
In this episode, you will hear:
- What it means to be an emotional badass
- Why incest is a taboo topic
- The importance of emotional intelligence in childhood
- Interpreting intuitive messages into verbal language
- The common plight of eldest children in dysfunctional families
- Guilt and shame as a big beach ball for the abusers
- The power of listening to and trusting your intuition
- How your body feels what your mind knows
- Cultivating patience and kindness to yourself
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Supporting Resources:
Emotional Badass: Where Moxie Meets Mindful
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful day. This is the Addicted Mind podcast. My name is Dwayne Austerlund, and we are on to another episode. Today, my guest is Nikki Eisenhower. |
| 0:17.2 | Nikki is a psychotherapist, licensed professional counselor, licensed chemical dependency counselor and life coach, specializing in trauma, addiction, grief, and loss, and highly sensitive people. |
| 0:28.4 | She is a yoga and meditation teacher and host of the hit mental health podcast, Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. |
| 0:36.5 | She uses her professional experience and her personal story |
| 0:39.7 | to be an open book to spread emotional resiliency and raise our emotional intelligence to bring |
| 0:45.1 | more peace, joy, ease, and fulfillment into our one precious life. So today, Nikki's going to share |
| 0:51.4 | her story of resilience. But before we go further, I want to let you know that in this episode, we talk frankly and |
| 0:59.6 | directly about sexual abuse and incest. |
| 1:03.7 | And I wanted to give you the heads up that if that's something that's difficult for you |
| 1:07.6 | or you're not ready to listen to an episode about that, you may want to |
| 1:12.1 | skip this episode. But if you want to hear more about emotional resiliency and taking charge |
| 1:20.3 | of your life, even after difficulty, pain, and suffering, is a great episode. Nikki shares her |
| 1:27.4 | story. She shares why it is so important |
| 1:30.7 | for us to just talk frankly about our experience directly to the topic. She's going to talk |
| 1:37.2 | about surviving incest and outing the secret, confirming that we are not fragile, that we |
| 1:42.8 | are highly sensitive and strong about taking radical |
| 1:45.8 | personal responsibility, boundaries as soul care, the power of vulnerability and showing up as our |
| 1:53.1 | true selves, and how we can take our story to live our best life and be our best selves. |
| 1:59.6 | So I think you're going to get a lot out of this episode. |
| 2:01.8 | I really enjoyed interviewing Nikki. It was a powerful conversation. And if you're getting a lot |
| 2:07.9 | out of the Addicted Mind podcast, please rate and review us in iTunes or wherever you get your |
| 2:13.4 | podcast. I really do appreciate it. And I really do read them. They mean a lot to me. They show up |
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