What My Grandpa's WWII Survival Story Taught Me About Codependency and Resilience
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If you’ve ever felt behind in life or overwhelmed by pressure to be further along, I hope this episode gives you space to pause and really honor how far you’ve come. I reflect on the unexpected gift of this podcast becoming a record of my own growth and share a deeply personal story about my grandfather’s survival during WWII. His decision to float alone in shark-infested waters, instead of clinging to others in panic, taught me everything about self-preservation. For us HSPs, especially those working through codependency and boundaries, that lesson runs deep. Sometimes the bravest thing we can do is let go—of people, habits, or expectations—and choose ourselves, even when it hurts. This is a reminder to stop, breathe, and give yourself credit for the emotional strength it’s taken just to be here.
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Avoidant, Anxious, or Secure? What are attachment styles and how does our past shape them?
Many people misunderstand their attachment style, overidentify with labels, or confuse trauma responses with personality traits. Today we break down secure and insecure attachment, discuss how anxious and avoidant dynamics form, and look at how emotional abuse and trauma erode self-trust. Many highly sensitive people (HSPs) often internalize critical voices and lose their sense of emotional safety. With radical honesty, self-awareness, boundaries, and emotional maturity, we can rebuild secure attachment—starting with our relationship to ourselves.
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Sean Combs AKA Diddy on Trial - How to recognize bedroom fun vs abuse - PART 2
Are you seeing yourself or someone you know in the Sean Combs AKA Diddy trial footage and wondering if you're in a similar toxic dynamic? In this raw episode, we look at the abuse Cassie allegedly endured as a lens to examine coercion, emotional abuse, and how power gets weaponized. Recovery from manipulative abuse often starts when high-profile cases like this one help us recognize the patterns in our own relationships. Abuse survivors know that feeling of being forced to play games without knowing the rules, watching abusers surround themselves with enablers who minimize the red flags. Self reliance and boundaries work become essential when you realize that what you thought was love was actually systematic control designed to keep you questioning your own reality and meant to trap you in relationships where respect and safety aren't negotiable.
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Sean Combs AKA Diddy on Trial - How to recognize bedroom fun vs abuse - PART 1
What if the alleged stories coming out of the Diddy Sean Combs trial feel more familiar than shocking? What can the trial teach us about recognizing psychological abuse in our own relationships? When domination hides behind fame and money, abuse can seem like something that only happens to the rich and powerful. But the truth is, coercion, manipulation, trauma, and control are far more common than we admit. In this episode, I speak from both lived experience and clinical work—on what it’s like to be with someone who slowly erodes your personhood, and how we must reclaim our sanity and power to break free.
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Why Highly Sensitive People Feel Different
Why do HSPs feel like they're fighting an uphill battle in a world that's lost its conscientiousness? After working with HSPs for nearly two decades, I've learned we're the people who value conscientiousness in society - that's our gift, not a weakness. Through therapy and self-awareness, sensitivity transforms from burden into extraordinary beauty. The sunrise that makes you cry with joy, the stranger's child who warms your heart - these experiences are available to every HSP who learns effective coping strategies.
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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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