Category: Engage
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Harvard Agrees: Get Out of That Toxic Relationship
In his November 2015 TED Talk, psychiatrist Robert Waldinger delivers insight gathered from the longest study on happiness. He also, although perhaps without realizing it, gives yet another insanely important reason why you need to get the hell out of and stay the hell away from toxic relationships. The Harvard Study of Adult Development has,…
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Top 22 Quotes To Inspire You to Leave That Toxic Relationship
“Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people’s fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances…
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55 Reasons Why You Need to Escape Toxic Relationship Patterns
“Sometimes you get the best light from burning a bridge.” Don Henley There are so many benefits to breaking free from toxic relationships and the toxic relationship pattern. Whether these benefits are the cause or a result of breaking toxic relationship patterns is debatable. I like to think it all goes hand-in-hand, and creates…
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How to Shift Your World: A Runner’s Perspective
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale I’ve been running lately. Lately meaning for the last couple of months. It’s brand new. I’m not running away from things, like I used to. Not even running toward things. Actually, physically running. I’ve always been fairly active, whether it was being on the…
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How My Limited Life-view Allowed the Toxic Vampire to Strike
“You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.” – Ethel Barrymore I used to view my life through a very narrowly…