In this episode, we delve into the challenge of setting boundaries and how discomfort often plays a crucial role in our ability to establish them. Host Dani Hickman shares personal experiences and insights, shedding light on the common struggles associated with boundary-setting and avoidance of uncomfortable emotions.

Key Highlights of this episode: 

Conflict Aversion and Emotional Discomfort: The episode begins with a discussion on the role of conflict avoidance and fear of uncomfortable emotions in hindering our ability to set healthy boundaries. 

Breaking Unproductive Patterns:The host emphasizes how failing to establish inner safety during emotionally uncomfortable situations can lead to maintaining relationships that no longer serve us and compromising our boundaries. 

Embracing Safe Discomfort: Listeners are encouraged to recognize the necessity of experiencing discomfort in order to grow. 

Expanding Emotional Tolerance: The episode explores the core issue of emotional distress and its role in setting boundaries. The host suggests that by learning to sit with uncomfortable emotions and seeking support, individuals can widen their window of tolerance and reduce suffering.

If you're desiring more specific tools to support yourself in navigating emotions, check out these previous episodes of Be the Scandal:

Episode 30: Identifying the Root of Your Suffering

Ep. 19-After the Trigger: Offering Yourself Love

Ep. 7- 4 Tips for Processing Grief & Emotional Pain

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Welcome to another episode of Be the Scandal! Today we're diving into the dynamic world of boundaries. Join host Dani Hickman as she explores the importance of maintaining flexible boundaries and the art of renegotiating them when the situation calls for it. 

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Setting boundaries is a universal challenge.

In this episode, we tackle the resistance that often arises when we attempt to establish boundaries. Join us as we uncover the underlying fears that hinder us and discover how unaddressed boundaries can impact our overall well-being. Host Dani Hickman shares a personal story that offers a fresh perspective, guiding you towards empowerment and embracing your role as the protector of your inner child.

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You've been feeling a tug on your heart coming from deep within...a calling to shift how you're expressing yourself out in the world.

No matter how hard you try to ignore this calling from your soul, it persists—inviting you to pay attention to it, get to know it and move forward toward alignment with this desire. 

And although this desire lights you up inside, there's resistance to the change this alignment would bring. A shift from your old identities, growing pains from shedding this old skin and a wide spectrum of emotions as you navigate this unknown space. 

For this reason, saying yes to your soul's desires and giving yourself permission to move toward a more aligned life is a sacred rebellion.

In this episode, host Dani Hickman and guest Emily Spring are diving into a vulnerable conversation about their own personal and professional journeys of creating a life aligned with their soul's desires.

Emily Spring is a Functional Medicine Physician's Assistant. Emily describes herself as a modern medicine woman—here to bridge the gap between science and spirituality; to bring various parts into wholeness, to help you discover the wholeness that already lies within you. 

In this episode, they're diving deeper into conversation on: 

• Letting go of what no longer serves you
• The importance of slowing down and learning how to be present with yourself in the moment
• Learning to love the parts of yourself that feel hardest to love
• The role of grief in letting go and shifting your identity
• The power of saying yes to becoming the next version of yourself 

Tune into this episode to hear this vulnerable conversation! 

Curious about connecting with Emily?

You can connect with Emily via her website: https://www.emilyspring.com

Follow Emily on Instagram at: @emily.spring

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You did it again...

You said yes when you wanted to say no...

...and you regret it. 

If you're exhausted by this pattern of relating and ready to honor your desires and set boundaries that are most aligned with you, we invite you to tune into this episode with guest Amelia Nicodemus. 

Amelia is a founding expert of the Sacred Rebel Collective, a woman-led community helping women learn to love the parts of themselves that feel hardest to love---expanding into a life connected to purpose, joy and unconditional worth.

One area of Amelia's expertise is embodied boundaries. In this episode, she shares her wisdom in connecting with the body, learning the body's boundary communications and supporting yourself in making aligned choices based on these boundaries. 

In this episode, we're diving deeper into conversation on: 

• The importance of boundaries for mental, spiritual, emotional and physical well-being
• How to recognize your sacred "yes" and "no" in your body
• Taking time to pause and learning to trust your gut instinct in boundaries 
• Personal permission in changing your boundaries at any moment based on your intuition 
• Supporting yourself in speaking your boundaries to others 
• Supporting your inner child in setting and communicating boundaries
• Offering yourself compassion and gentleness as navigating boundary setting 

Curious about learning more about Amelia?

Amelia is a compassionate inquirer, playful pleasure seeker, and empathic guide that supports curiosity and ease in the bodies, minds, and hearts of others during times of [physical, spiritual, emotional] transitions of birthing and dying. 

Amelia is a lover of collective experiences. She loves creating spaces for the deep connection that happens between other women and within themselves. The journey — of women remembering their sacred wild essence — is one of her deep joys to witness in herself and others. 

Follow Amelia on Instagram here : @ameliasrose__

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Are you avoiding conversations surrounding money and your finances?

Whether it's avoiding the truth of your finances in conversations with yourself, fear of judgement from friends and family about how you spend your money or limiting yourself in your dreams of building wealth---many of us are feeling stuck when it comes to the topic of money. 

Although there are individualized factors that contribute to feeling uncomfortable with the topic of money, one culprit that encourages avoidance of the conversation is: shame. 

In this episode, we're diving deep into the topic of shame and money with guest expert, Caroline Tanis, CDFA MBA.

Caroline is a financial advisor and strategist that specializes in helping highly ambitious women and their families build a plan for their dream life. She is an advocate for women building wealth and increasing financial literacy in future generations. After spending half of a decade at Merrill Lynch she made the jump to start her own practice so could create a place where women felt heard, understood, and welcome to fully pursue their dreams. 

In this conversation, we dive into topics including:

• Giving yourself permission to dream about wealth and creating an aligned life 
• Building wealth as your authentic self
• Freeing yourself from judgment and shame surrounding your money desires
• Codependency and boundaries with money
• Communicating with yourself and those you trust about finances 
• Supporting your inner child in conversations about money  

If you're interested in connecting more with Caroline, you can find her here:

 Website: https://tanisfingroup.com/

Instagram: @tanisfingroup

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As humans, we can’t avoid emotional pain—it’s inevitable.

And although you can’t avoid the pain of the human experience, you can avoid creating unnecessary suffering for yourself amongst the pain.

Suffering can come from many places, but in this episode, we’re diving into two places it could stem from:

1. When you’re feeling stuck in your emotions, the ways you’re trying to cope with the pain could actually be creating suffering for yourself.
2. Sometimes the here and now problem is being amplified by past lived experiences that you haven’t fully processed—all being drudged up amongst your present experience.

If you’re feeling stuck in an area of your life that is causing you emotional pain, this episode is for you. I’m walking you through a three step process to help you identify the root of what is keeping you stuck in your emotional pain and giving you tips on finally freeing yourself from the suffering that is holding you back.

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Website: www.thesacredrebelcollective.com

Feeling overwhelmed by the inner critic?

Although it might seem counterintuitive, learning how to collaborate with this part of you is necessary if you're trying to free yourself from it's grips.

The inner critic was born out of necessity—it came from an attempt to keep you safe and connected to those around you. Getting curious into the protective nature of the critic is a direct way to deepen your compassion and identify ways to support yourself outside of the inner critic's tactics. 

Maybe it's time to meet this part of you with curiosity into what it's trying to protect you from instead of meeting it with anger. 

In this episode, host Dani Hickman is sharing her wisdom via a recent experience with her inner critic. Tune in to hear more! 

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Instagram: @dani.hickman

Website: www.thesacredrebelcollective.com