Sassy, Soulful, & Sensitive with Cam Nichols

Ever feel like you're a burden to others? You're too needy. You're too emotional. Blah blah blah.

But in this episode, Cam talks all about what it's like to feel like a burden and what to do about it to make it less miserable and help you take the overthinking out of it. He'll guide you through creating self-compassion, building and communicating in relationships, self-care, and seeking support.

In today's episode, we dive deep into the elusive concept of "enough" and how it affects our lives. Society's standards and expectations often make us feel like we're never "enough."

It's time to say, "Enough is enough of enough!"

Recognize old, repetitive thoughts holding you back and seek validation from those who truly matter. Break free from the cycle of "enoughness" and celebrate your unique self.

In this enlightening episode, join Cam Nichols, a certified life coach specializing in empowering highly sensitive individuals, introverts, and empaths to discover their authentic selves. Journey with us as we delve deep into the transformative world of core values and how they serve as your unwavering guide through life's twists and turns.

Discover the crucial distinction between Aspirational Values and Core Values, and why understanding this difference can reshape your life's narrative. Explore how Core Values become the compass that directs your actions, empowers your decisions, and shapes your unique path toward fulfillment.

Cam shares compelling client stories that illuminate the profound impact of identifying and embracing one's core values. These personal narratives highlight the clarity, confidence, and authenticity that await those who embark on this values-driven journey.

Tune in as we unveil the practical steps to uncovering your own core values and integrating them into your everyday life. Learn how these values act as a natural filter, allowing you to stay true to your purpose while navigating the noise of the world with resilience and grace.

Join us for a soul-enriching conversation that will inspire you to embrace your inner compass and illuminate the path to a life brimming with authenticity, purpose, and unwavering self-belief. It's time to unlock the transformative power of your core values. Don't miss this enlightening episode! 🌟🎙️

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Ready to dive deep into the emotional ocean, Buttercups? 🌊 In this soul-stirring episode, your host Cam Nichols takes you on a journey that's as vibrant as life itself: "Increasing Emotional Capacity."

Get ready to unlock the secrets of the emotional intensity scale, from the soul-crushing lows at -10 to the exhilarating highs at +10. Cam breaks it down with his signature sass and sensitivity, showing you how this scale isn't just about specific emotions – it's about the intensity that colors your experiences.

But wait, there's more! Cam's not holding back on the power of embracing those -5 or -6 emotions that we tend to avoid. Discover how these emotions hold the keys to our growth and understanding, just like every storm births a rainbow. 🌈

And don't you worry, Cam's got your back on how to crack open the shell around your heart. Learn to explore emotions without judgment, embracing the messiness and the beauty they bring. Get ready to dance with both darkness and joy, as you expand your emotional capacity and create a masterpiece of experience and connection.

So grab your emotional passport, Buttercups, because this episode will take you on a kaleidoscopic journey through the richness of emotions. If you're ready to experience the full range of life's colors, tune in now.

Keep feeling, keep growing, and keep shining – because emotions are the currency of a truly vibrant life.

Join the emotional revolution. Hit play now! 🎙️

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Tune in to our latest episode, where we dive into the transformative power of thoughts and actions. Join host and life coach, Cam Nichols, as he unveils a powerful thought that's been a game-changer in propelling himself into action, even when motivation is low.

He'll also share the main thought he caught onto that held him back from taking action for years. Maybe you have the same one too?

In this engaging discussion, he'll explore the profound connection between our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. Discover how the thoughts we choose can shape our feelings and drive our actions, ultimately shaping our reality.

Be prepared to unlock the thought that once held you captive, preventing you from taking action.

As the episode unfolds, he inspires you to dream big and value your desires. By the end, you'll be armed with insights and tools to embark on a journey of action, no matter how daunting it may seem.

Join us and learn to harness the power of your thoughts to fuel your actions, step into your desires, and start making your dreams a reality.

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Do you ever find yourself in those moments when life seems to throw everything at you all at once? If that's a familiar feeling, then this episode is tailor-made for you!

As highly sensitive people, overwhelm can hit us hard, flooding us with intense emotions, sensory input, and intrusive thoughts, leaving us feeling utterly drained and paralyzed. It slows us down, and honestly, it's just plain miserable.

But fear not! In this episode, we're diving headfirst into the world of overwhelm. We'll explore how it affects us as highly sensitive individuals and most importantly, we'll uncover practical strategies to manage it both in the moment and in the long run.

Life coach, Cam Nichols, will be your guide on this empowering journey; and together, we'll reclaim control, embrace our sensitivity, and learn to thrive amidst life's challenges. Let's master the art of navigating overwhelm with grace and resilience as highly sensitive people.

Get ready for a discussion that's bound to set you on the path of reclaiming your power and finding peace amidst the overwhelm.

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As highly sensitive people (HSPs), decision-making can often feel like a daunting task. In this insightful episode, Cam explores the five reasons why making decisions is difficult for HSPs and unveils four effective strategies to help you navigate through them, with an exciting bonus fifth tip!

Discover the common obstacles HSPs face when making decisions, including overthinking, sensory and emotional overwhelm, fear of making the wrong choice, empathy, and sensitivity to regrets. Gain a deeper understanding of how these factors impact decision-making processes and learn valuable insights to overcome them.

Life Coach Cam Nichols shares four powerful techniques to guide you through decision-making challenges as an HSP. Don't miss this episode packed with practical tools and heartfelt guidance that will empower you to navigate decision-making as an HSP with confidence, clarity, and alignment with your authentic self.

Tune in and embark on a journey toward making choices that honor your sensitivity and align with your true desires.

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When you receive a compliment do you cringe a little on the inside? Sometimes even good things can feel awkward and uncomfortable when we don't have practice receiving them.

Join Life Coach, Cam Nichols, this week as he explores the topic of undermining and underestimating yourself as an HSP.

As highly sensitive people, we possess unique strengths, but we also face specific challenges. In this candid conversation, Cam explores how we may unintentionally undermine ourselves because of the stories we tell ourselves, and hinder our growth and happiness.

In this episode, host, Cam Nichols, delves into the world of mindfulness specifically tailored for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs). He explores the definition of mindfulness and its relevance to HSPs, highlighting its ability to cultivate presence, grounding, and inner awareness. Discover the benefits of mindfulness in reducing stress, anxiety, and reactivity for HSPs.

Here's a breakdown of what you'll find in the episode:

• Why does Cam call his peeps "Buttercups"...? This is the episode where he'll explain!
• Various mindfulness techniques to try that help you feel more peace, calm, relaxation, grounding, love, and compassion.
• Practical ways to incorporate mindfulness in your daily life so you can build a unique mindfulness practice that feels easy so you can reap all the amazing benefits.
• Explore common challenges faced by HSPs in creating a mindfulness practice and the strategies to overcome them.

Join Cam on this insightful episode as we explore mindfulness for HSPs, providing you with practical techniques, guidance, and inspiration to enhance your well-being and thrive as a highly sensitive individual.

In this episode, Cam takes you on a journey of self-discovery and empowerment as he explores the parallels between nature and our human experience. By examining the power and beauty of nature, Cam highlights how positive and negative pressure can shape our lives as highly sensitive people, introverts, and empaths. Through personal stories, Cam illustrates the impact of pressure on their own experiences and how they learned to navigate it. Embrace positive pressure for growth, release negative pressure through self-compassion, and shape your inner climate to nurture and empower yourself.

Do you ever feel like you're trapped in an exhausting cycle of bouncing from one extreme to another?  One day you're X, then the next you're Y, and it feels like a never-ending rollercoaster. Trust me, I've been there too, and it's draining, isn't it? That's where the "Sometimes Principle" comes in.

Join Cam Nichols as he explains this simple yet transformative tool that you can start using right away to change how you think about yourself--giving you more energy, flow, and happiness in your life. For introverts, highly sensitive people, empaths, or anyone else who is hard on themselves or struggles with criticism, this is a game changer!

Perfectionism keeps us stuck. And it's not even real!! It's impossible to be perfect, but we still have the urge and try to make it happen. Join Cam this week as he talks about embracing those shadow sides of ourselves, the invisible rules/laws that govern our lives, confidence vs arrogance, and allowing vs forcing and how it all comes together into our very own invisible, but very real, roadblock.

When we're actively hiding, we cannot actively live. It's easy to fall into the trap of hiding our true selves from the world. When we stop hiding and allow ourselves to be seen, amazing things can happen! 

Join Cam Nichols as he shares with you:

• Four powerful questions to help you as a highly sensitive person to stop hiding and start living
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  I'm still flabbergasted when things like this happen. I never thought was possible.")

"The world doesn’t need more people playing small. It’s time to stop hiding out and start stepping out. It’s time to stop needing and start leading. It’s time to start sharing your gifts instead of hoarding them or pretending they don’t exist. It’s time you started playing the game of life in a “big” way." --T. Harv Eker

As a sensitive soul, the fact is that we're just not meant to play the energizer bunny role in the world. This can be frustrating AF! But you can make it less frustrating and Cam is going to tell you how to do just that--he's got your back!

Join Cam Nichols as he discusses:

1. Understanding Energy Management as a Sensitive Person
2. Identifying Personal Energy Drains
3. Strategies for Recharging & Building Resilience
4. How to Manage Your Time

"Extraordinary productivity is not about time management, it's about managing your decisions, attention, and energy." - Leigh Stevens

Success means something different for every person. However, we all fall prey to the overarching definition that society likes to sell us. Defining success on your own terms is imperative as an HSP because society's definition does not align with who we are as highly sensitive people, introverts, and empaths. Join Cam Nichols as he discusses:

1. Society's definition of success
2. The Importance of defining success on your own terms
3. Questions to ask yourself to figure out HOW to define your own success
4. Overcoming fear and judgment

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou

Listen in this week as Cam Nichols shares the importance of doing an "Input Audit" as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). What goes in is exactly what comes out--consciously or unconsciously. Choosing what media, news, people, places, etc. we allow to take up our time, energy, and space, is what creates our lives. In order to live fulfilling lives with meaningful relationships as HSPs, we need to carefully cultivate what enters our awareness.

Have you ever been told you need to stop looking for validation from others? As an HSP/empath/introvert, it's important to understand that this may be true part of the time, but it can't be true all the time. Join Cam Nichols this week as he talks about the sensitive person's desire to be truly recognized on the deepest and most magical level and how what we're desperately trying to get isn't what we really want. He'll also discuss what we need to do in order to get the validation we want!

Learning how to trust your intuition and navigate your energy and emotional cycles is what allows you to create the anchor of safety you need to confidently express your unique voice and advocate for your wants and needs. This is how you build the incredible and meaningful relationships you want. This is how you create a fulfilling life that aligns with who you really are so you can naturally thrive!

Conversing with others can be scary and hard for sensitive people like us. We're worried about what people think about us, how our words will be taken, how the other person will feel, and sometimes if we even have the words in our brain to say at the right time! In the final part of the meaningful relationship mini-series, I'm going to teach you HOW to have empowered conversations so you can take your relationships to a deeper level. 

In part three of four in our meaningful relationships series, join us as we talk about what it means to be vulnerable, why it's so difficult to be vulnerable as sensitive people, and build greater awareness around it so you can create the intimacy you crave in any of your relationships.

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In part two of four in the Meaningful Relationship series, the question is asked: what conditions do you put on love in your relationships? What makes someone lovable? I'm going to give you a unique and possibly unheard-of definition of what it means to love unconditionally. This is what it takes to love yourself, love others, and be loved in return.

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Want to feel more connected in your relationships? How about not feeling guilty about not wanting to pursue a relationship? Relationships (romantic, familial, friendship, etc.) are part of what makes our lives meaningful and we have more control within them than we like to give ourselves credit for.

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Being an authentic badass doesn't look like you think it does. It's messy. It's inconsistent. But it's real. AND it doesn't have to be hard to embrace.

It's easy to judge ourselves when our needs look different than others around us. But what if we didn't have to? What if we could normalize what our needs are and just give them to ourselves? This is what self-care is.

I'm always surprised when I recognize I'm self-sabotaging. My brain is so sneaky at coming up with new ways or angles. Let's talk about why we self-sabotage; some sneaky ways it shows up that you probably aren't noticing; AND give you a quick and easy hack to pull yourself out of the self-sabotage spiral (which also works with anxiety!).

Giving ourselves compassion is one of the most difficult yet rewarding skills we can develop--especially as introverts, empaths, and highly sensitive people (hsp)!  Listen in to learn four ways to start giving yourself some major doses of compassion that will help you completely change your life!

There's a lot of talk about transforming into our "highest and best selves." This sounds nice and all, but it completely dismisses who you are right now and tells your subconscious that you are not "good enough" as you are. Join Cam Nichols as he offers a different perspective and discusses the concept (and danger) of hierarchical thinking.

Have you ever felt like you're defective or broken? Tune in this week to find out why we tend to take on this belief, how it shows up in our lives, and what we can do about it as empowered introverts, empaths, and highly sensitive people.

A huge part of why our lives aren't the way we want them to be is because we haven't found and utilized our voice. When we do, we step into power and set boundaries. We don't overthink and are willing to speak up for our wants and needs and own our opinions.

Join Cam Nichols for a brand new podcast geared towards introverts, empaths, and highly sensitive people. Learn how to tune into your intuition, step into your radical self, and find your voice.

We'll cover topics like boundaries, self-love, energy management, confidence, authenticity, emotional regulation, and more.