I want to tell you about the podcast, nobody should believe me. It is a groundbreaking investigation

into Munchausen by proxy, and it's told through the lens of family members, survivors, experts,

and even a perpetrator. I'm going to have the host and executive producer of the show, Andrea

Dunlap, on as an interview guest early in 2023. She brings a deeply personal angle to the subject,

because her own family was torn apart when her sister was investigated for Munchausen's

by proxy more than a decade ago. As highly sensitive people were often drawn to true crime,

not for the dark details, but for the resiliency. And when we see resiliency in others,

this show is ultimately hopeful. It gives us permission to lean into our own resiliency and the

things that we need to practice resiliency for in this sometimes hard and tough life. I invite

you to binge all eight episodes of Nobody Should Believe Me Season One, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Hello! Welcome to Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm Nikki Eisenhower,

Life Coach and Psychotherapist and Host. And on today's episode, I'm sharing the Mermaid

Meditation. Have fun and live free.

So this is what I would call a shape-shifting meditation. I'm going to use eye statements for this one

so that you can sink into it more so than if I used you. That's a little different than the

meditations I usually do. In this one, we use imagination, we use breath, and we use intention.

The intention of this meditation is to have fun and feel free. If you don't have a sense of

trust at all, in me, my work, who I am, then this meditation might be a hard one for you.

But if that's where you are, maybe pause this one, go listen to some other episodes and see if

you can get a sense of who I am so that you can come back to this meditation and be able to melt in.

This type of shape-shifting meditation, which is my own thing, I don't know that other people do it,

but this works best when you can really sink in, and that takes a certain amount of trust to be

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