How Critical Thinking Empowers Highly Sensitive People and Abuse Survivors to Improve Mental Health

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Breaking down the problem with biased vs critical thinking. Today's episode explores discernment, good and bad ideas, debate, openness, ego and cognitive bias, scientific validity vs. the validity of emotion, a how-to for teenagers asking for later curfews, and becoming a better negotiator. What makes critical thinking essential for highly sensitive people and abuse survivors? We dive into the significance of managing anxiety and cognitive bias, revealing how these skills lead to better decision-making and mental health. Learn how to overcome family dysfunction and ego interference to foster critical thinking, ensuring a more empowered and balanced life. If you are interested in supporting us even more than a 5-star review, you can find Emotional Badass on Patreon where you will get hundreds of hours of bonus episodes, monthly video livestreams, discounts, and can join in the community. https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass 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 Narcissistic Abuse Workshop: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Email 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Diet Coke.
0:04.6	Time for a Diet Coke break.
0:08.6	Enjoy what you like.
0:11.6	Just how you like it.
0:16.1	This is my taste.
0:19.7	What's yours? Celebrate your my taste. What's yours?
0:23.0	Celebrate your unique taste with Diet Coke.
0:28.9	Hello, welcome to emotional badass where Moxie meets Mindful.
0:33.7	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.
0:37.3	And on today's episode, I'm discussing critical thinking and the analysis and evaluation of factual evidence to form judgment.
1:11.6	My definition through a lens of mental health for critical thinking,
1:15.7	is the analysis and evaluation of factual and intuitive evidence to form discernment.
1:23.9	Highly sensitive people and survivors are easily manipulated because of their big empathy and big hearts.
1:32.6	It's why so many of us have narcissistic patterns of attraction.
1:38.6	So we need to be able to practice discernment and we need to be able to critically think appropriately to be able to practice discernment, and we need to be able to critically think appropriately
1:44.6	to be able to get to discernment. The end goal of critical thinking is to be able to make
1:51.2	really great decisions for our lives, and hopefully decisions that bring lightness and ease,
1:57.7	not unnecessary struggle. This is part of why it's a pretty big deal for a highly
2:04.9	sensitive person or a survivor to learn how to heal and manage anxiety and fear, because anxiety
2:13.3	and fear shut down or override our intuitive information and our best critical thinking.
2:21.8	Now, y'all know that we can say that every single family out there has some dysfunction.
2:27.6	And this is true.
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