496 3 Ways to Avoid Getting Sucked Back Into a Toxic Experience or Relationship
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Do you minimize your negative past experiences?
Or do you have selective memory, where you only remember the good from a painful relationship or time in your life? Almost like hyper-positivity with past experiences?
Do you feel tempted to return to these toxic relationships or experiences?
If you're nodding your head, you are not alone. I see this in many of my therapy clients, and I figured if it is happening with them, maybe you are experiencing this, too.
In this episode, I am talking about euphoric recall – what it is, why it's dangerous, and how to protect yourself from falling back into old, toxic patterns or relationships.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there and welcome to this episode of The Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:04.0 | I want to start by asking you a question. |
| 0:07.0 | Do you have tendency to sort of find the good in things? |
| 0:13.0 | Would you say you might lean towards being a little hyperpositive, |
| 0:17.0 | especially when it comes to looking back on the past? |
| 0:21.0 | Do you ever fall into the category of having like selective memories |
| 0:27.0 | about the way something happened where you exaggerate the good |
| 0:30.0 | and you minimize the bad? |
| 0:33.0 | If you're nodding your head, yes, one today's episode is for you |
| 0:36.0 | because I'm going to be breaking down euphoric recall. |
| 0:41.0 | So this is a psychological phenomenon where we have a tendency, |
| 0:46.0 | especially let's say it's in an abusive relationship |
| 0:50.0 | and then the relationship is over. |
| 0:52.0 | Even if they may end it with us, right? |
| 0:54.0 | This happens a lot with narcissists. |
| 0:56.0 | And then you're thinking about all the good, |
| 0:59.0 | but you're not thinking about any of what the bad was |
| 1:03.0 | and the bad was pretty bad. |
| 1:05.0 | So in today's episode, I'm going to be talking about what euphoric recall actually is |
| 1:10.0 | and I'm going to give you three steps that you can take right now |
| 1:13.0 | to stop putting yourself in danger by employing this defense mechanism |
| 1:20.0 | of euphoric recall. |
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