Toxic friendships, playground politics and when to cut ties with a BFF

It’s time for introspection! Do you have friends that leave you feel drained, emotionally unsupported, envious, or just generally meh?  Today we’re talking about toxic friends. We explore how we, as women, develop toxic friendship traits from the playground, all the way though to high school and we never really leave those high school days behind. What role do we play in toxic friendships? Sometimes what feels like a problem is a result of something happening internally, within ourselves.  Join us and listen while we unpack: Isolation and exclusion Manipulation, unhealthy competition, and jealousy Love bombing your friends The pain of the friendship breakupHow to identify the behaviors that make us toxic to others and how to identify when they are being turned towards us Have we truly left the playground politics behind? Or is the catty, clique-y behaviour so entrenched in how we interact with other women that we’re doomed to always circle back to toxic behaviour? One thing is clear, in addition to dodging toxic men we also have to deal with toxic friendships.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.