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Overcoming toxicity: Take control and reclaim your emotional wellbeing
- Self-Reflection: Reflect on your role in toxic relationships, seek feedback, take responsibility, and foster self-awareness.
- Misguided misstep or toxic trap?: Distinguish between a one-time mistake and a pattern of toxic behavior based on intent, behavior patterns, and response to feedback.
- Realise: Prioritize your well-being and avoid engaging in futile arguments with toxic individuals.
- Take Action: Choose resilience over resistance, set boundaries, limit interactions, leverage rules/norms, seek support, and act like a leader in addressing toxicity.
- Resilience over resistance: Surviving toxic environments may be essential temporarily, but know when to navigate away if necessary.
- Eject them from your galaxy: If toxic individuals are optional in your life, prioritize your well-being and exit toxic relationships.
- Set firm boundaries: Clearly communicate what behaviors you will not tolerate to keep toxicity at bay.
- Limiting interactions: Reduce exposure to toxic individuals to preserve mental health and minimize their influence.
- Leverage on rules or norms: Understand and enforce organizational policies to address toxic behavior objectively and de-escalate situations.
- Seek support: Connect with trusted individuals, including friends, family, colleagues, mentors, and support groups, to navigate toxic environments.
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