Welcome to a bonus episode. This is for anyone that hasn't heard the

podcast Love and Abuse that is my other show and I wanted to play you one of the

episodes on this feed, the overwhelmed brain feed, because if you haven't had a chance to go over there, well, I just wanted to make it easy on you.

So this is a podcast about poisonous communication and toxic behavior

manipulation the emotional abuse

deception lying any of the above that you're dealing with with either a romantic partner, a business partner, a friend, a family member, I think a lot of us have those kind of family members and other people that you have to deal with in some

way shape or form on a regular or infrequent basis it doesn't matter but that's what

love and abuse is about is helping you learn about behavior that it's just not healthy.

And it's not productive, it's not kind, it's not empathetic.

It's sometimes pathetic. It's just empathetic. It's sometimes pathetic.

It's just not behavior that helps people get along.

It's behavior that is used to control you.

It's used to control you. It's used to control the environment. People do behavior

like this. They are poisonous. They are toxic when they want to control you or the environment

so that they feel more comfortable.

Or they're trying to avoid pain,

they're trying to avoid feeling hurt.

So they will use all kinds, and I mean all kinds of tactics, techniques, and tricks on you

so that you are so focused on what you did wrong or you're so redirected with your attention because they are using sleight of hand with their

words, that you end up losing the conversation, losing the argument, or getting bamboozled or conned.

And that's just not a good place to be.

And that's why I mentioned empathy earlier.

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