Hello, my beautiful beans. Welcome to the episode of today. So in today's episode, I'm so fucking excited about this episode, can I just say?

Because I've posted about it on my Facebook group. I've posted about it on the Instagram. I've gotten so many great, great questions, which have actually helped me format my dot points in this episode. So thank you.

But we're talking about energy vampires. People that drain your energy. I'm actually going to go into detail about exactly

what an energy vampire is because there's going to be things that you might think you've got

an energy vampire in your life and you might be like, oh, they meet some of the criteria.

They don't necessarily have to meet all the criteria.

And this is not like a diagnosis, mind you.

Can you imagine if the DSM-5 had like energy vampire as like a proper disorder?

They probably should, but they don't.

This is just kind of like roughly what you will probably find when dealing with someone who is

draining your energy.

Now, I'm going to go into detail in a little bit, but you're going to realize that this

applies to any kind of person, an acquaintance, a friendship, a relative, a co-worker, a boss,

anyone can fall under the category of an energy vampire.

Some people jokingly were referring to children as energy vampires. That absolutely does not count. We're not talking about dependence.

We're talking about adult relationships here. So you can't, unless your child is an adult themselves,

then yes, but a child cannot be an energy vampire. That's different. So we're talking about

adulty. And we're also talking about energy vampires where it is intentional and also where it is

unintentional. But all the advice that I give you will apply regardless of the intent behind

their actions. And you will see why. So everything I tell you,

you can apply it no matter if the person is sweet, doesn't realize they're doing it or if they

are. Okay. So it's going to be, we're going to dive deep. I don't even think I'm going to have

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