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Quit Whatever Causes You More Stress Than Joy

You don’t need the toxicity

✨ Bridget Webber
5 min readJul 21, 2019
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Life shows you behaviors, events, and people to avoid via how they make you feel. If an experience feels rotten, it’s harmful, and it’s best to take note and make changes.

You recognize what to give up sometimes. It smacks you on the head, and you can’t ignore it. You realize you must lose weight if obesity reduces your health, and you perceive it is wise to quit smoking when you gasp for air climbing the stairs.

However, you might overlook toxicity that ruins your happiness, even when it’s obvious. Difficult relationships, work issues, bad habits, and negative thoughts undermine your mental health.

Now and then, you may overlook physical discomfort too. Maybe, you eat until your belly swells or drink alcohol until your head pounds, and it takes hours or days to recover.

Why you overlook toxic concerns

You won’t pay attention to problem areas if they are chronic. When they become part of your ordinary routine, you don’t see them for what they are anymore.

Indeed, you could imagine they are normal, and everybody else has similar struggles, so you tolerate them.

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✨ Bridget Webber
✨ Bridget Webber

Written by ✨ Bridget Webber

Spiritual growth, compassion, mindfulness, ancient wisdom, and psychology. You can support me at https://ko-fi.com/bridgetwebber

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