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- What if the very things you do to reduce anxiety are quietly inviting it in? Highly sensitive people very often rehearse anxiety without realizing it. We ask why, search for the culprit, and turn one anxious thought into an investigation that leaves the nervous system spinning. Witnessing your anxiety without needing to fix it offers a gentler path, and it builds the capacity that makes room for more joy, more presence, and more peace.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Your intelligence can become an anxiety machine. The same sensitive mind that reads a room and anticipates consequences can build a convincing case for worry, and call that worry wise. I’ve watched highly sensitive people write worst case scenario dissertations while refusing to accept that anxiety is part of having a nervous system. Accepting it is actually what reduces it, so you can feel anxiety without handing it authority over your life.
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BONUS CONTENT: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Going no contact with family is a fracture, a splitting off from the vine you came from, and I will never casually encourage it. Many sensitive people who believe they are setting boundaries are still bargaining, explaining and pleading with relatives who do not value understanding. I share the questions to ask before you decide, and some of my own personal story, so you can count the cost honestly. You can feel grief without regret, and you can love without allowing access.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - If you were raised in chaos, the first boundary you need may be one nobody taught you, which is permission to have a limit. Many of us became undercover lawyers, building a courtroom case for every no, because no one showed us that no is a complete thought. We are humans with limited capacity, and I ask what happens to our humanity when we push past it. No one else can give you permission except you, and permission is where the worth sits.
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - 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.
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About Emotional Badass
Hosted by psychotherapist Nikki Eisenhauer, M.Ed. LPC, LCDC. This show provides essential emotional education on Mental Health, HSP (Highly Sensitive People), Narcissists & Manipulative personalities, healing from Trauma and PTSD, calming your nervous system, inner child work, and setting healthy boundaries.
Emotional Badasses are survivors, thrivers, seekers, and healers! Expand and awaken to your higher purpose, be more present and authentic, find strength in spirituality, quiet the monkey mind of modern society with meditation, and connect deeply with yourself and safe others. We let go of what doesn't serve us to heal old wounds, find our voice guilt-free, and learn to be the hero in our own story. Embrace guerrilla self care, and laugh with lightness on the self development path.
Nikki Eisenhauer is an International Life Coach, Licensed Professional Counselor, Yoga and Meditation Teacher. This show is designed to mindfully be the emotional education so many of us crave; Emotional Badass is where we learn to love ourselves without apology. Emotional Badass is where Moxie Meets Mindful.
To work with Nikki 1:1 - https://www.emotionalbadass.com/coaching
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