Do you have toxic people in your life? People who compliment and indirectly criticize in the same sentence? People who lack the courage to tell others their feelings and instead take their bad feelings out on the innocent? Are these people perpetually talking about themselves, their life, their feelings, and what they think about everything? Are they opinionated, self-righteous, and/or alarming? Do they like to scare others with their words then explain how they will resolve things? Are they convinced they're heroes? Are you convinced they're toxic?
In my own life, people like this mirror things in me I would prefer didn’t exist. Maybe that’s why they are in my life. They help teach me about me.
Toxic people also serve to help us see faults in ourselves that might be holding us back from a fuller life. Their toxic nature can help us purge attitudes and behaviors we don't need anymore.
Much self-help literature says a fuller life starts with self-awareness. You are at the root of the life you want or don’t want. You define you. So what are toxic people teaching you about you? This is tonight’s lesson and reflection.
Here’s a great video by Joyce Meyer on the subject of self-awareness.
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