How Emotional Expression Helps HSPs Recover from Trauma and Build Inner Strength

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Reframing emotional strength as embracing vulnerability and allowing oneself to feel and express emotions authentically is key to personal healing, especially for highly sensitive individuals. Do you often suppress your emotions, thinking it shows strength? For Highly Sensitive People (HSPs), embracing vulnerability and allowing emotional expression is essential for healing. Suppressing emotions can lead to mental health challenges, like PTSD and trauma symptoms. In this insightful discussion, we explore how reframing emotional strength as openness to feeling can help HSPs recover from trauma and build lasting mental health. Psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer offers wisdom on breaking free from societal pressure to hide emotions, showing how embracing your sensitivity is key to growth. 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, community, and different opportunities to work with Nikki in group format 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 Join the 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 Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, well, welcome to the show.
0:02.9	This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful.
0:05.9	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.
0:09.7	And on today's episode, we're considering the secrets of inner strength. Our ideas of strength are interesting to consider.
0:30.7	Where do our ideas of emotional strength come from?
0:34.6	I'm going to share where I think some of mine come from,
0:37.4	and I want to encourage
0:38.5	you to look back on your life and extrapolate the messages that helped you form ideas about
0:46.4	where strength comes from, what it looks like, what it is and what it isn't. I was taught that stuffing and hiding emotion was strength.
0:58.4	The visual I often get when I think about this is a wife at the funeral of her beloved husband
1:04.9	or child. I can see her in my mind's eye, somber, stoic, greeting guests.
1:13.8	I was taught that strength was never acknowledging that you were affected,
1:19.5	never letting them see you cry.
1:22.5	We hear that one a lot when it comes to somebody bullying you.
1:25.2	We tend to see non-emotion, flat affect, the control of stuffing down
1:33.4	our response, covering it up, as strong, and the expression of emotion as weak, messy, dramatic,
1:43.2	even crazy in our culture.
1:46.2	We're not born thinking these things.
1:49.6	Interesting to think about that we're born and guess what we all do first.
1:52.6	We typically cry, show emotion.
1:57.2	It's interesting that as we grow, collectively we're sort of taught to move away from that emotion, isn't it?
2:04.6	When I look back at my childhood, I can see how often I felt just wrong.
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