The Soulful Bucket List That Healed Me and Changed Everything

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Many Highly Sensitive People live in constant survival mode, feeling burnt out, anxious, and disconnected from joy. In this episode, we offer a soulful alternative: a bucket list of simple, healing experiences that shift us from surviving to truly living. I share powerful practices like witnessing a sunrise in stillness, writing to your younger self, dancing barefoot, and forgiving without needing closure. These small yet meaningful acts nourish mental health, support trauma recovery, strengthen boundaries, and help HSPs reconnect with peace, purpose, and their own worth. Workshops & Programs: ♥ BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE WITH NIKKI: https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries ♥ 30 DAYS TO PEACE:https://EmotionalBadass.com/peace ♥ NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops ♥ EMOTIONAL STRENGTH TRAINING: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/strength ♥ FREE MORNING ROUTINE PDF: https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning Services & Content: ♥ WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1 : https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching ♥ PATREON: https://Patreon.com/emotionalbadass ♥ WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter ♥ PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com ♥ GUIDED MEDITATIONS: https://shop.emotionalbadass.com/collections/meditations-and-mantras Follow us: ♥ WEBSITE: https://EmotionalBadass.com ♥ YT: https://www.youtube.com.com/emotionalbadass/ ♥ IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass/ ♥ FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass ♥ TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the show.
0:02.7	This is Emotional Badass, where a Moxie meets Mindful.
0:06.0	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist.
0:10.0	And on today's episode, I am sharing a soulful bucket list for highly sensitive people. Hello, y'all.
0:29.0	So I have a little something for you here today.
0:32.3	And I want to start by asking you the question, how do we live more and stress less?
0:39.6	I mean, when you boil it down,
0:47.0	that's what all of us want, right? Many of you have found my work because of a life lived in survival mode. So many highly sensitive people are living in this mode and it's unsustainable.
0:54.0	It burns us out on life. It gives us heart
0:56.9	attacks young. It takes a toll, y'all. I live the first 35 years of my life in a constant,
1:03.5	and I mean a constant survival mode, thinking that I would never be able to break out of it.
1:10.0	I thought that's all life was, and it was a very,
1:13.7	very depressing thought and way of living in being. I didn't think I'd ever be able to truly
1:21.3	calm down on my insides. I might be able to pull it together and look calm at work or in a job interview,
1:28.5	but I didn't ever really feel calm internally. I didn't really know how to enjoy life.
1:34.8	I certainly laughed. I certainly had joyous moments, but I had an internal cranked up,
1:42.7	raw, survivor, edge to every moment I was alive.
1:50.0	I didn't think I'd ever have peace.
1:52.8	And I certainly didn't think I'd ever have, this is increasingly one of my favorite words, satisfaction.
1:59.5	A real grounded, deep satisfaction with myself and with life, despite how hard and
2:07.7	unfair life can be sometimes. I have so much satisfaction, certainly not perfect satisfaction.
2:15.2	That's not available. And I have so much more peace. Y'all, we are not
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