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Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer
Emotional Badass
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  • Emotional Badass

    Toxic Relationships and Your Nervous System - Part 2

    2026-08-30 | 50 mins.
    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.

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    The Mother Wound Behind Hayden Panettiere's Public Unraveling

    2026-08-23 | 50 mins.
    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.

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    What Toxic Relationships Actually Do to Your Nervous System - Part 1

    2026-08-16 | 47 mins.
    Toxic relationships don't just drain our energy or violate our boundaries. They change our relationship with ourselves. For those of us who are highly sensitive, toxic dynamics condition our nervous systems to believe that having a boundary will cost us everything. So we stop trying. We go along to get along. Naming how this conditioning works is how we get clarity on what needs healing and start the work of coming back to ourselves.

    - Intro To Boundaries ⁠https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro⁠

    - The Yearly Boundaries Intensive
    ⁠https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries

    Resources:

    - Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching

    - 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off

    - The Book by Book Club: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/bookclub

    - Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
    - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck ⁠https://www.getpatternscapes.com

    - Join the Patreon Community: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

    - Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF ⁠https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning

    - Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter

    - Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations

    Follow us on Social Media:

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass

    TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass
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  • Emotional Badass

    Why Life Keeps Getting Easier the Older you Get

    2026-08-09 | 25 mins.
    Turning 46 means listening back to the woman I was at 39, before she knew what was coming. I trace how the emotional muscles built through years of healing changed the way hard things land, and how grief and grace can share the same reflection. For years I believed life simply happened to me. This is about claiming our birthright, the truth that we build the lives we love through countless small choices, and growing older can mean growing freer.

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  • Emotional Badass

    The Health Crisis Hiding Inside Your Stress Habit

    2026-08-02 | 27 mins.
    Stress has become so normalized we call it smart, even loving, when it is actually wearing down every organ in the body. Learn how stress hormones move through the body with every unresolved worry, and why highly sensitive people are especially prone to this pattern. Chronic stress has shortened lives I love. Real peace begins with recognizing this pattern and finally choosing something different, one precious life at a time.

    - The Yearly Boundaries Intensive
    ⁠https://soulcare.emotionalbadass.com/boundaries?coupon_code=EARLYBIRD

    Resources:

    - Work with Me 1:1: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/coaching

    - 30 Days to Peace Course: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS for 30% Off

    - Intro To Boundaries https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/intro

    - Mapping your Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse Workshop https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/workshops CODE: BADASS for 30% Off
    - Get the Patternscapes Wellness Deck ⁠https://www.getpatternscapes.com

    - Join the Patreon Community: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/emotionalbadass

    - Download the FREE Morning Routine PDF ⁠https://www.emotionalbadass.com/morning

    - Join our newsletter https://www.emotionalbadass.com/newsletter

    - Check out our Guided Meditations https://www.emotionalbadass.com/store/meditations

    Follow us on Social Media:

    Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/emotionalbadass

    IG: https://www.instagram.com/emotional.badass

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass

    TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass
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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.
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