What is a Toxic Relationship? with Heidi Brocke
Toxic relationships can manifest anywhere - in the workplace, among your friend circle, or even within your extended family.
Join chiropractor-turned-life-coach Heidi Brocke as she unpacks her experiences into a purposeful business venture, helping others deal with and escape the overwhelming cycle of being with an energy-and-esteem-draining individual.
Tune in to this episode on What is a Toxic Relationship? with Heidi Brocke.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️Recognize a toxic relationship. Heidi Brocke believes that the word “toxic” isn’t a diagnosis but an adjective to describe an unhealthy relationship - be it mentally, physically, or emotionally.
✔️ Catch the signs of a toxic relationship. They’re unpredictable and difficult to pinpoint. However, Heidi Brocke shares that it’s never too late to distinguish patterns of a toxic individual. The constant need to belittle and criticize is a glaring red flag.
✔️Keep your reactions in check. The toxic personality constantly looks for a reaction, whether it be tears, panic, or distress from the oppressed. The latter’s first instinct is always to spring into action to avoid conflict, like a dog fetching a stick.
✔️A toxic relationship is like walking into a stinky room. The longer you stay in a stinky room, the bad smell goes away. But that doesn’t always mean the smell is gone. The same principle applies to toxic relationships. The oppressed become desensitized to abuse because it happens daily.
✔️An emotionally abusive person uses the same playbook. Put yourself in an outsider’s perspective. Find out what motivates their behavior. You have the power and courage to analyze the situation and make educated decisions leading to your departure from the relationship.
✔️Use your voice. One loses so much of their esteem and identity when they’ve undergone a controlling and draining environment. Heidi Brocke and Wendy Sterling share the passion for empowering people to reclaim their autonomy and make decisions that align with their beliefs.
Heidi Brocke is a Toxic Relationship Awareness & Healing Specialist. After 14 years in an extremely emotionally and narcissistically abusive relationship, she broke the chains and turned her past into her passion; She left her 24 years career in healthcare to be the person she needed when she herself was trapped in the darkness of an unhealthy relationship to provide hope, healing, and freedom to those whose lives have been affected by toxic relationships, emotional abuse, and narcissistic behaviors.
Today, she has helped hundreds rid and heal their toxic relationships and hosts the popular podcast, It’s Not Normal, It’s Toxic: Rid your life of toxic people, with over a million listens worldwide.
She’s an international keynote speaker, recipient of Empowering Women in Business of The Year award by Inspiring Lives Magazine, and has been featured in both Forbes and Time Magazines for the dedication given to her clients and for her work in the toxic relationship area.
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