How to Stop Toxic Relationship Patterns in 2026

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Why do gut instincts about toxic people get ignored and talked away despite screaming warnings? Highly sensitive people exhaust themselves doing emotional calculus to predict what's happening in everyone else's heads while energy vampires drain them completely. That intelligent narcissist will never get it no matter how many perfect explanations get presented because low empathy means growth and self reflection stay permanently off the table. Playing small and dimming your light becomes automatic after years of learning that accomplishments make others uncomfortable, so managing everyone's feelings turns into a full time job instead of actually living. Affiliates and Sponsors: Brain FM https://www.brain.fm/emotionalbadass CODE: EMOTIONALBADASS Resources: PATTERNSCAPES DECK: https://getpatternscapes.com/ WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1: EmotionalBadass.com/coaching 30 Days to Peace Course EmotionalBadass.com/peace CODE: BADASS THE BI-WEEKLY WELLNESS NEWSLETTER EmotionalBadass.com/newsletter SUPPORT US ON PATREON Patreon.com/emotionalbadass Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I no longer hope the narcissist in my life will one day get it. Y'all, if I had a dollar for every
0:08.2	highly sensitive person, that looked me right in the face and said, yeah, but I just, I want them
0:14.1	to get it. God, I just, I just, I want them to get it. Anybody who has ever tangled with someone with low empathy and low maturity,
0:23.7	which is what narcissism essentially is, has beat their own head against a wall going,
0:29.0	they have to get it. Some of these people have degrees. They have higher education. They are
0:33.9	CEOs of companies. These are highly intelligent people. They must get it and I will make it my mission.
0:40.4	That's not right for our minds, our hearts, our bodies to have to be on a warlike mission
0:47.4	to make the low empathy person grow empathy.
0:50.9	It won't happen, y'all.
0:53.0	If there was a way to make them get it, I would have figured it out.
0:56.7	I'm convinced.
0:59.6	Hello, welcome to the show.
1:02.1	This is Emotional Badass, where Moxie Meets Mindful.
1:06.0	I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist, and on today's episode, we are talking about
1:12.2	letting go of toxic relational patterns. So I'm calling this the no longer list to end 2025.
1:24.4	As I walk you through this list, I ask you to squeeze all the therapeutic value out of it
1:30.2	by noticing your emotions. Notice your thoughts that come up in your head and notice your body
1:36.9	as I read through them. Notice which ones resonate, which do not. Notice of a very young or wise
1:43.1	older part responds. if a part wants to
1:46.2	defend or argue or dismiss. I don't think it's explained enough in healing or general self-development
1:54.0	this concept of how we get to know ourselves. To get to know our true authentic self, it takes nuanced noticing
2:03.1	and an ability to be honest with what comes up. This is different than letting our thoughts go to
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