Hello, welcome to the show. This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie meets Mindful. I'm your host,

Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist. And on worked with or known, I could describe as stubborn.

Yes, stubborn. I am incredibly stubborn.

If you've been listening for a while and that surprises you to hear, I hope you listen all the way to the end.

In today's episode, I'm breaking down how you can have a positive relationship with stubbornness

and use it to your highly sensitive advantage.

But first, let's talk about how most of the world relates

to stereotypical stubbornness. There are the direct insults to stubbornness, and I grew up hearing

every single one. Were you called any of these names growing up? I was called hardheaded,

pig-headed, bull-headed, thick-skulled, mule-headed,

blockhead. What's interesting to me is that most of this name-calling around stubbornness

references the head, as if all stubbornness is created in or comes from the head.

That's very interesting to me as someone who helps highly sensitive people get out of this headiness

and get into what we call heart and body knowledge.

So it's very interesting to consider for us as highly sensitive people because we're the feelers.

Does our stubbornness actually come from our

head or more from our feeling parts, what we feel within ourselves and within any given situation?

When I look back, much of my stubbornness was about how I felt as an instinct, as an intuition in my gut, my heart, and my body.

We don't have terms like hard-hearted, but we do have hard-headed. Isn't that interesting?

I've said on the show countless times that we're living through a very heady time in the human

condition because we're such a therapist population now and on TV and in social media. We're very

heady. And I don't think to our advantage, I think to our detriment.

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