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- Healing was never meant to mean I feel calm all the time. In part two, I take apart the misconceptions that keep sensitive people stuck, starting with the belief that a trigger tells me something true about someone else. Often it reveals where my own window still needs cleaning. When a dysregulated nervous system drives the bus, fear makes our decisions for us. Your wisdom belongs in the driver's seat, and I want to help you get it there
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
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive
https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
- 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
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Nervous system advice has become mental health fast food, quick slogans that teach you to flee every uncomfortable feeling. But sometimes discomfort is danger, and sometimes discomfort is growth. Wisdom is learning the difference. When avoidance becomes your belief system, you're building your life on a foundation of fear and calling it regulation. I reframe common misconceptions to help you emotionally strength train through the discomfort instead of around it.
RESOURCES
THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries
WORK WITH ME 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
INTRO TO BOUNDARIES https://EmotionalBadass.com/intro
30 DAYS TO PEACE: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace
NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP: https://EmotionalBadass.com/narc
THE FREE MORNING ROUTINE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning
PATREON: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter
PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Your Gut Health, Serotonin, and What Dr. Arwen Podesta Sees That Other Doctors Miss
2026/07/05 | 56 mins.Most people walk out of a psychiatrist's office with a prescription and not much else. Dr. Arwen Podesta works differently, looking under the hood for root cause instead of just managing symptoms. We get into the gut and brain as a power couple, why more serotonin lives in your belly than your head, the amino acids your stressed system might be starving for, and how to come off medications safely when you've been on them too long. If you've ever felt dismissed, over-medicated, or like your body knows something your prescription doesn't, this one is for you.
Dr. Arwen Podesta Resources:
Website: www.podestawellness.com
Website: www.drarwen.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podesta.wellness
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PodestaPsychiatry/
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/arwen-podesta-md-8a396042
Hooked Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1457546078
Emotional Badass:
WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1: https://EmotionalBadass.com/coaching
INTRO TO BOUNDARIES https://EmotionalBadass.com/intro
THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/boundaries
30 DAYS TO PEACE: https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/peace
NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP: https://EmotionalBadass.com/narc
THE FREE MORNING ROUTINE: https://EmotionalBadass.com/morning
PATREON: https://patreon.com/emotionalbadass
WEEKLY NEWSLETTER: https://EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter
PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/emotional-badass/id1363543523
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices- Shame is the swampy, cracked foundation underneath every boundary that keeps crumbling on you, and most people have no idea it's there. Understanding where your shame came from, even knowing it belonged to the people who hurt you, rarely dissolves it. We learn to shame ourselves first, a twisted attempt at control that only buries us deeper. Real change asks for something far more human than knowledge: the slow, layer-by-layer work of emotional strength training that lets peace become your foundation again.
Resources:
- The Yearly Boundaries Intensive
https://www.EmotionalBadass.com/Boundaries
- 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
- 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
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Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices - Shame rarely walks into the room and introduces itself. It hides as anxiety, hypervigilance, the survival mode that lingers no matter how much work you've done. We sensitive types get exceptionally good at noticing what's wrong with us and mistake that scanning for self-awareness. Real self-awareness doesn't wear us out. Come sit with the ten ways shame disguises itself, because there's so much joy waiting on the other side.
- 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
- 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
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FB: https://www.facebook.com/emotionalbadass
TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@emotionalbadass
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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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