025 — Toxic Relationships | How to Recognize, Leave, and Heal
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Are toxic relationships stealing your energy, your peace, and even your health? In this session, you will learn how to recognize the hidden patterns of control, gaslighting, and people-pleasing that keep you stuck, and why the nervous system makes it so hard to break free. You will understand how toxic love changes cortisol rhythms, disrupts sleep, and erodes self-trust, and how psychology and neuroscience reveal safer ways forward. We will explore what toxic dynamics really look like, the most common traits that slowly diminish your sense of self, and how they appear not only in romance but also in family, friendships, and work. You will discover why leaving is not weakness but survival, and the science-based steps that make it possible to set boundaries, find support, and reclaim your freedom. Finally, we will practice gentle, practical tools for healing after toxicity — from simple body check-ins to compassionate boundary scripts, from truth reflection to nervous system anchors. With insights from psychology and neuroscience, this session is both a map out of toxic relationships and a reminder that your worth, your voice, and your ability to love differently have never been lost.
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