This week on "Rebel Hearts": Kristie talks with Dr. Niki Elliott, clinical professor, author, speaker and expert in the field of consciousness development and vibrational healing. Niki Elliott earned a BA at UC Berkeley, a MA at Teachers College, Columbia University and a PhD in Education from UCLA. She is the founder of "Innerlight Sanctuary" and "The Innerlight Method". She has written two books: "Intuitive Mother" and "I Feel Your Pain: A 7-Step Survival Guide for Empaths, Intuitives and Highly Sensitive People". Niki serves as a Clinical Professor of Education and the Co-Director of the Center for Neurodiversity, Learning and Wellness at the University of La Verne. After a traumatic experience more than 15 years ago, Niki's intuitive abilities opened up overnight. All of a sudden she started feeling other people's pain in her own body and becoming extremely sensitive to the energies of her environment. It was not until she studied various energy healing methods that she found solutions on how to not only handle but also thrive with these newly opened up gifts. This experience lead Niki to founding the "Innerlight Sanctuary", a virtual village in which she supports empathic and intuitive people. She also founded a modality called "The Innerlight Method", which is a groundbreaking energy healing modality that helps highly sensitive people develop healthy energetic boundaries and restore emotional as well as physical balance. Niki shares with us about the challenges highly sensitive and empathic people are facing and gives us easy to apply and practical tools on how we can turn this challenge into an asset. Many highly sensitive people walk around the world feeling everything on a heightened level, thus becoming overwhelmed with the world around them. Niki educates us on how important it is to learn to turn down the dial, so that we may show up in the world as our full selves. She also educates us on the intuitive pathways and how different people access intuition in different ways. It is by finding out which pathways are the strongest for us and then allowing ourselves to keep that channel of intuition open in order to access to our genius, and Niki teaches us how. Learn how to create energetic boundaries and manage your sensitivity so you can live your life at your full potential!