Welcome, everybody. We are going to talk about how to handle anxiety around toxic people.

And this is specifically for those we want to focus on doing this without ruminating for hours

and without completely losing ourselves in the process.

So here is the big question.

Have you ever walked away from a conversation with someone and felt completely disregulated?

You feel so bad about yourself.

You feel like you're going completely crazy all of a sudden and you can't help

but overthink the entire interaction. A lot of my clients will say to me, it feels like I absorb

people's negative energy. They might say, when she acts this way, I get so triggered, I just

cannot control myself. They lose control completely. Or maybe they say my anxiety

goes through the roof and I overthink everything as soon as I'm around this person. So today,

what we are going to do is we are going to talk about how we can care for you and your anxiety

when you're dealing with these quote unquote toxic people,

whether it's your co-worker, it's your friend, your family member, doesn't matter.

I'm going to give you a really, really good metaphor that I use with my clients all the time.

Now here is what we're doing on the agenda today.

Number one, we are going to talk about why anxiety skyrockets around certain people.

Number two, how to set boundaries that you can actually help reduce your anxiety, even if it

feels terrifying in that moment.

We're also going to talk about the skill of staying, quote, unquote, in your lane, even

when someone is trying to pull you back into that chaos.

And lastly, we're going to talk about how to radically take care of yourself instead of

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