To protect yourself from toxic relationships, you need to Recognize toxic behaviors, take appropriate countermeasures, and make healthy choices.
Recognition: If you feel you are being manipulated, setting and enforcing boundaries is the first step to protecting yourself. It helps maintain your emotional health.
Countermeasures: Surrounding yourself with supportive friends and family provides balance and perspective. Self-care practices, like therapy or mindfulness, strengthen resilience against negativity.
Use Healthy Choices: Knowing when to step away is often the healthiest choice, even if it means ending a toxic relationship.
Take good care of yourself. You are your first line of defense.
Author: Mike Balof
A retired Air Force Master Sergeant, Mike used to lay in bed at night and worry about what would happen if his plant closed or found himself without a job. One day his plant closed. Rather than panic and hysteria (OK, maybe a little) Mike found himself carried away on the adventure of his life. Mike started with the best job he ever had working at Home Depot. He spent 8 years working with job seekers at a local workforce center, helping them to find employment. He then started his own company developing courses, writing books and urging others to follow their own paths into the future.
Mike holds a Master of Arts in Adult Education and Training and a Bachelor of Business Management, earned through the University of Phoenix and an AAS degree in Electronics Systems Technology from the Community College of the Air Force. Mike is a member of the Delta Mu Delta Business Honor Society.
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