Letting Toxic People Out Of Your Life Is Healthy For The Soul
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Letting toxic people out of your life is healthy for the soul

And it's physically healthy for you.

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Letting toxic people out of your life is healthy for the soul
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Everyone has toxic people in their life; It can be their family, friends and significant others. Those experiences are the universe's way of giving you examples of who to associate and not associate with. Toxic people have a way of weighing you down, so you can't be light on your feet succeeding through life. Toxic people will hold you from succeeding with what you want in life. Sometimes it's hard to let toxic people go because they are so close to us, but if we want to survive and be happy, that is the way to go. I had a strong love or obligation for the toxic people in my life, and it was hard to rid or set boundaries with them.

The first step to leaving a toxic relationship is recognizing that you have one. It took me a long time to recognize and to know that I had a choice in who I could keep in my life and who to throw out. To throw out the toxic people out of my life was the best decision of my life. According to Psychology Today, you should be asking yourself if the person negatively impacts you both mentally and physically. For example, does this person make you feel happy and light or heavy and sluggish? A relationship should always be balanced and is a "two-way" street as my fiance says. Both sides of the relationship have take/give and if you take more than you give then that is a toxic mindset.

If someone makes you feel sluggish and heavy, then that person shouldn't be in your life. Unfortunately, most toxic people don't believe they are toxic and won't make these changes and that is coming from experience. I've had toxic relationship problems since childhood. As I'm an adult now, I have left all of those toxic relationships behind. I've had to cut people out of my life because of how toxic they were in my life. I can now walk through life with my soul and heart a lot lighter.

Having a toxic relationship can have negative effects on your health. Psychology Today says that the more toxic relationships that you have the more heart problems you could develop. Who knew that someone you love who is toxic could hurt the heart. Now it makes sense, doesn't it? It shows that we need to take care of who we let into our inner circle.

Having a toxic relationship can be hurtful to yourself through the mental and physical pain. No one deserves to be in a painful situation. We live such short lives compared to the age of the earth. Why spend time with toxic people while living, when we could be living our happy lives? Remember that you have the choice to remove people and no obligation to entertain them in your life. I know how much it can hurt someone to be in a toxic relationship. Remember you're too beautiful to be in a toxic environment.

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