Steps to overcome negativity and toxicity to focus on healing
- Let go of people, ideas and situations that don’t serve you
- Get healthy – body, mind and spirit (healthy eating, exercise, breathwork, journaling, spending time in nature).
- Express gratitude (especially when you awaken and before bed. Think of at least 3-5 things for which you are grateful)
- Try something new by getting out of your comfort zone (take a class, volunteer, learn something – outside of the house, not from a computer)
- Focus on the present, not the past — the past is over, and nothing can be done to change it, so don’t waste energy on how it could have been if only…
- Replace negative thoughts and actions with positive ones, repeating until it becomes the norm – start telling yourself you are what you want to be by using affirmations, journaling, meditation and doing activities that make you happy; we are what we believe ourselves to be!
- Evaluate your support network and make sure you have the right people – many of those within our support networks do not truly support us. Those who love you need to respect your choices and not try to tell you what they think you should or shouldn’t do.
