I'm Jody Moore from Bold New Mom and you are listening to Nape Clips episode number 14.

Hello, welcome and thank you as always for listening.

I am very pregnant right now and I decided in the next life when I meet God I'm

going to ask him why we couldn't just do this like birds do where we lay an egg and we take really good care of it and the baby grows in that egg and then hatches instead of growing inside our bodies.

It's really kind of challenging and painful and yet I'm so grateful for it.

I'm grateful that I get to experience it and I have the most amazing kids who I just adore and love and can't imagine my life without.

So I'm grateful for it but thanks for letting me complain for just a minute about being pregnant.

Let's get on to things though.

Today's podcast is about toxic people and this is kind of a part two to a podcast I did earlier.

If you want to go back and listen to episode number five it's on how to deal with that difficult family member and I decided to do this part two because after talking through this topic with some additional clients and realizing that there are some other things that I just didn't have time for in that episode.

I wanted to give you a little bit more.

I know this is something that whether it is affecting you now that you have a difficult person in your life or it did in the past or it will in the future every one of us does encounter it at some time.

So the first thing that I need to clear up is that there is no such thing as a quote unquote toxic person.

Other people are not contagious or poisonous.

I can't, you know, I can be around somebody who we would label is really horrible and negative and I could touch them or whatever and none of that is going to get on me and affect me.

Right? There's not this like magical thing happening.

Negative activity or bad behavior is not contagious.

Now you may be thinking well I've met people before who have this negative energy or this negative vibe and I can just tell right away that they're trouble.

The reason for that is because human beings are very good at reading other human beings.

It's something that we're born with as part of our natural intuition.

So we pick up on subtleties and people's tone in their behavior and their mannerisms and you may not be thinking about it all in your conscious brain, but that is what's telling you this person is negative.

It's not again this mystical energy in the air that you're feeling.

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