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Emotional Badass

Calling all Emotional Badasses! HSPs, Trauma Survivors, and Mental Health Advocates

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the show! My tribe can be described as Emotional Badasses on the path of healing and growth work. I have high hopes that this show grows and spreads emotional education, simple meditation, and grounded psycho-social-spiritual empowerment education through the world. HSPs (Highly Sensitive People), Empaths, Seekers, and Trauma Survivors, and those in addiction and codependency recovery will resonate!  I tunes operates on a funky algorithm and we appreciate all 5 star reviews that push us up in the rankings to meet more amazing like-minded listeners & seekers like you!  If you're an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), empath, or trauma survivor, you'll love our deep dive into mental health and trauma recovery. Learn why highly sensitive people often face unique mental health challenges and discover actionable strategies to help navigate relationships and life with greater resilience. We share emotional life skills that can transform the way you view mental health, and how trauma recovery can unlock hidden strengths. Find out how embracing high sensitivity can be your superpower. Whether you're seeking personal growth or healing, there's something here for everyone. Let's connect, heal, and thrive as emotional badasses. Resources: Download the free Morning Routine PDF to learn our techniques to help conquer your day! https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning-routine Community & Exclusive Bonus Episodes & Video: https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Brain.FM: CODE: Emotionalbadass for 20% off and a free month Join our newsletter for weekly wellness emails where we share mental health tips, announcements, discount codes, and highlight past episodes: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter Check out our Guided Meditations narrated by Nikki available for sale: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations Follow us on Social Media: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/emotionalbadass Thank you for supporting this show by supporting our sponsors: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/sponsors Advertising: Please contact sales@advertisecast.com if you would like to advertise on our podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, I am Nicky Eisenhower, and this is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm wanted to create for a long time. I've been in mental health for about 12 years.

0:35.0

I'm a psychotherapist and a life coach.

0:38.0

And what I know to be true, what I've seen is that we don't do a very good job of mental health here in America.

0:46.5

We've thrown a lot of pills at human problems as we're losing connection in the time of technology.

0:57.0

So I thought, why not do something that really scares me?

1:02.1

I'm an introvert. I'm a highly sensitive person. I've done a lot of

1:06.4

healing of my own childhood wounds as I've figured out how to help other people

1:12.0

with theirs.

1:13.0

So when you go to school to become a counselor,

1:16.0

they tell you that you have to pick your specialty.

1:20.0

And I didn't really know how to do that. I knew I was called to work with people, but I didn't really know how to pick a specialty.

1:28.0

So I was in New Orleans when I was in graduate school that's where I'm from and Hurricane

1:36.6

Katrina hit and it pushed my program back so when I came back to the city I had to figure out how to finish my internship in the

1:46.4

middle of huge disaster with everyone that I know washed out, jobs washed out, my program washed out.

1:55.0

And what I came back to was a friend of mine

1:58.6

who had graduated the semester before,

2:00.7

and she said, Nicky, come work with me in this addictions clinic and I had already

2:05.9

worked in French quarter bars to put myself through school I had no desire to work with

2:11.6

addiction I had originally wanted to work with addiction. I had originally wanted to work with kids because I love

2:15.4

kids, I love their playfulness, I'm connected to their inner child. It's easy for me to connect

2:20.9

with kids. They feel safe with me, So I always thought I would do that. But here

2:25.0

comes Hurricane Katrina and throwing my plans kind of out of the water and I just needed an internship

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