You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 33, toxic people and relationships.

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Hello, beautiful Braveheart. So today, we are talking about toxic people and relationships.

I have so many of you coming to me and saying that you are in a toxic relationship or that your ex is so toxic.

And I need to share something super important with all of you.

There's no such thing as toxic people or toxic relationships.

Only toxic thoughts.

When we think about something being toxic,

like the very literal definition of toxic, equates to poisonous. So just because you're in the

presence of someone doesn't mean that you're infected with poison. And I think the likelihood of that

is very, very low. I'm not going to say that's impossible. I'm just going to say that the likelihood

is very low. Now, in going to say that it's impossible. I'm just going to say that the likelihood is

very low. Now, in society, we've coined this term of someone being toxic and like the

relationship was toxic as if, you know, this other person's energy is rubbing off on us or that

the way they show up makes us act a certain way and feel a certain way.

And it's just this big, like, toxic mess when in reality, it's just another human being.

It doesn't really help us. It doesn't serve us to think about people as toxic. It's actually

rather scary, even thinking about it like that,

right? Thinking that someone can just have this toxic energy and that it rubs off on us and makes

us feel and act in certain ways. That gives them so much power. You give away all your power

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