Emotional Badass

By Nikki Eisenhauer

Hosted by psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer, M.Ed. LPC, LCDC. This show provides essential emotional education on Mental Health, HSP (Highly Sensitive People), Narcissists & Manipulative personalit... more

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Number 1: Toxic Relationships and Your Nervous System - Part 2
Toxic relationships train you to distrust the parts of you that already know something is wrong. This episode looks at how survivors confuse guilt with wrongdoing, lose access to clean anger, and slide into an automatic yes before they even process the ask. Peacekeeping starts to feel like peace, but it never is. Healing begins when you stop waiting to be saved and start trusting your own no again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 30, 202651min
Number 2: The Mother Wound Behind Hayden Panettiere's Public Unraveling
Hayden Panettiere was performing before she could speak, and the applause taught her something dangerous, that praise felt like being loved. This episode traces the mother wound I kept seeing beneath her public unraveling, the same performance based self worth so many of us were raised on, where love got confused with being useful. What are you still carrying that feels too heavy to name? Healing begins the moment you finally set it down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 23, 202652min
Number 3: Society Has Changed. You're Not Imagining It.
If it feels like the world has changed around you, you aren't crazy. We're highly sensitive people living in a culture that runs on speed and scale, like a computer from 1995 running modern software, so of course we're worn out. You're allowed to see what has changed, and you don't have to gaslight yourself into calling it all progress. Our minds are still ours to manage, so we can build our lives on the interior and refuse to live on the edge. Sign up for this years Boundaries Intensive here: https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 27, 202658min
Number 4: The Lindsay Clancy Case. When Empathy Becomes Bias: Signs Compassion Has Lost Emotional Intelligence
Outside a courthouse, women gathered to defend a mother who strangled her own three children, and I could not stop asking what that revealed about empathy itself. Over empathy can block natural consequences, a kind of codependency wearing empathy's clothes. Real emotional intelligence means holding more than one truth at once. That wider way of caring, without losing yourself inside it, is the kind of empathy I want for all of us. Sign up for this years Boundaries Intensive: https://soulcare.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries?coupon_code=BADASS50 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 20, 202658min
Number 5: What Does it Actually Take to be a Good Therapist?
Being highly sensitive and deeply empathetic feels like it should qualify you to help others heal, but wanting to help people as a therapist takes more than good intentions. It takes emotional maturity, boundaries, and backbone. I unpack what real empathy actually requires beyond performative empathy, and why compassion without backbone quietly turns into something else. You cannot teach someone their worth while proving you have not yet learned your own. https://www.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 06, 202648min