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Hello, welcome to Emotional Badass where Moxie meets mindful. I'm Nikki Eisenhower, your host,

life coach and psychotherapist. In on today's episode, I'm discussing Emotional Blackmail and the Ego's

Drug of Choice. Now, I ask for grace in this episode because I'm going to name some things that are

scary for me to name. If you are reactive as a human being, as we can be, as we go through our

healing, especially if we have nervous systems that can get triggered and react instead of knowing

how to respond. This episode might be hard for you if you are in a stage in life, if you are in

a season where you are reactive. You may be more reactive if you have some PTSD going on,

if your nervous system reacts. What we're looking for in healing is to mindfully understand,

okay, my body and my mind can react. They can pull back hard and fast. What we want to cultivate is

this idea of responding instead of reacting. If you hear some things about me that make you reactive

in this episode, I encourage you to squeeze the therapeutic value out of it that you need

to be able to sit there, work through that feeling and see if you can come up with a response

that really serves you. Often when we have traumatic childhoods, we slip into a pattern of self-sabotage.

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