How to Deal with your Toxic Family | Understanding Signs, Regaining Power, New Mindset + Solutions

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AI GeneratedThis video serves as a guide for individuals in toxic family environments, offering validation and psychological strategies for survival. It focuses on recognizing abuse, understanding dysfunctional family roles, and implementing emotional detachment to maintain mental health and build a path toward independence and healing.
You know your family is toxic.
That's why you're watching this video right now.
You know that you are treated in a way that you do not deserve.
You know that there is cruelty that is normalised on a daily basis within your family.
You know that the people that are supposed to be there for you are constantly hurting you
and you can't even talk to anybody else about it.
When you try to communicate to your family,
you're crazy.
You're so sensitive.
You're so overdramatic.
We're your family.
We love you.
What are you talking about?
It's your fault.
If you didn't act the way you acted, we wouldn't treat you like this.
Trust me, I know.
I know how it goes down.
And first and foremost, I am here to validate your experience
because it can so easily feel like you're making it all up
and you're doing it for attention.
Do I really have it that bad or am I just a bad kid?
That is so far from the truth.
And with this video, I want to firstly prioritise educating you
on what it is to live in a toxic family
and what the real signs are
so next time you're being mistreated,
you can actually trust your own judgment
and then on top of that, healthy ways to deal with it on a daily basis
so that you can survive in that toxic environment that you're stuck in
while maintaining good mental health
and implement habits to create a better life for yourself,
maintain your sanity and eventually get out.
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make sure you check out the Discord which is linked below in the description.
If you are struggling right now, you need people to talk to
or you just want to make friends,
that is exactly what the Discord is there for.
So make sure you join, completely free.
I also have my podcast linked down below in the description.
You guys can listen to all of my YouTube videos on the go in audio format.
I only make videos on self-development and developing your mindset
which will work in addition to this video.
Chapter one, understanding the 10 main signs of a toxic family
so that you can validate your own feelings and stop forgiving so easily.
You will visibly be hurt and try to communicate that
and their response is, oh, I didn't mean it like that.
You can't take a joke.
What else do you want me to say when you do that?
I don't remember saying that.
I would never say that you must be taking it the wrong way.
You can literally pull up receipts of their harmful behaviour towards you
and they will still deny it.
All of these phrases and lies and gaslighting
will just make you question whether you really have it that bad
and most importantly, it will make you feel so guilty
like you actually deserve it and you are a bad kid
and maybe you are too sensitive and overdramatic.
This links onto sign number two, invalidation.
I feel like so many people look over this
when it is a literal form of emotional abuse.
They play the victim, they say you're too sensitive
or you're overreacting, just like the gaslighting sign.
But most importantly, what distinguishes this
is when you take the step to actually communicate what's been done
and you talk super maturely and you're like,
you've done this, this is when you did it,
this is how you did it and this is why you hurt me,
they completely dismiss it.
They don't want to accept any responsibility for the trauma they've put on you.
They do this so that they can continue to live in their distorted self-perception
so that they can continue to live their daily life
not having to feel badly about themselves
because unfortunately, they don't want to do the inner work,
they don't want to heal, they don't want to try to become a better person.
All of that self-development is simply too difficult for them
and they have that mindset because believe it or not,
they already have an extremely difficult life
whether you see it or not,
on the inside, they are constantly at war with themselves.
People who hold a lot of self-hatred in here,
project it onto you.
One, so that they can just deny that they're a bad person
to protect their fragile ego
and two, because they simply don't care about you.
It's such a hard pill to swallow but they don't care about you.
Why should they validate you?
Think about it, none of their other treatment of you matches up
so how could you even expect them to understand what you are communicating
and then try to implement actions to be better for you?
Even your own parent can still be more concerned with themselves
and their life than caring and showing up for their child.
Sign three of a toxic family is that you are the black sheep.
Being the black sheep of a family essentially means
that you think differently from everyone else
and as a result, you constantly feel like an outsider.
In fact, you're probably treated as one.
You're always left out,
you always receive the blame from everyone else,
you're excluded from things or you're mistreated
simply because you don't share the same beliefs
or act in the same way as your other family members.
Because you were constantly put down
and you never received the compassion and support
that you deserve, it's probably made you into a very empathetic person.
You understand others a lot more
and you've developed a rational sense of thinking
because of the mistreatment you've been put through.
And even though you have that quality,
you are the only one that's defending you.
You will rarely see another family member stand up to defend you
when you are constantly trying to defend them
because you've been labelled as the problematic and overdramatic one
and no one wants to associate themselves with you.
The thing about toxic families is that everybody is given a role, right?
You have the golden child, you have the black sheep,
you have the scapegoat.
In order for a toxic family to function,
everyone just tries to stick to their roles and do their part.
Everyone is so concerned with sticking to their roles
because they've been raised to act in that way.
And that's their way to survive in this dysfunctional family
because it's all they've ever known.
For example, one of the roles in a dysfunctional family is the peacekeeper.
This is someone who is often manipulative
but they are constantly trying to just make sure everyone gets along.
And even if you are genuinely hurt and you have been done very wrong,
just get over it.
Stop. Stop making a scene.
And this is similar to the enabler who often just stands by and watches
and they know everything that's going on.
They'll never intervene and they'll never try and save you.
They might actually know that what's going on is very wrong
and they don't agree with it.
But even if this is someone like your older sibling,
your parent, your auntie, your uncle,
they will just stand by and they will watch.
Sign number four, belittling.
They constantly put you down, insult you, criticize you, judge you.
Oh yeah, and they'll swear at you all the time.
Like, that's completely normal in your family to scream at each other,
speak to each other in a disrespectful way,
and then just defend it by,
oh, but you made me really angry.
Or I couldn't help it, you put me in a bad mood.
We were arguing.
This is so normalized in so many families
and I cannot stress this enough.
None of your family members should be swearing at you,
should be calling you names,
insulting you or judging you for anything.
The sole role of a family is to love you
and take care of you and show you affection.
Verbal abuse is never okay
and I hate people just accepting that that's how they're spoken to.
Sign number five, humiliation.
This can come in any shape or form.
If you have had a conflict with one individual family member,
best believe when all of the family members get together,
they're gonna bring it up.
They're gonna talk about how annoying you were,
how stupid you were, how you failed a test.
Hell, they might even humiliate you in front of your own friends
when they go out with their own friends at lunch.
Basically to anyone who will listen.
And best believe they're gonna do it
when you are sat there right next to them
and all of these people are staring at you
as your family member has just said some horrific things about you.
And they do this to put themselves on a pedestal
and keep you very low to the ground.
This is so that they can exert their power
and most importantly maintain control over you
by managing everyone else's perceptions of you.
Because the sooner they get everybody else to believe
that you're a bad kid and that you deserve how you've been treated,
then everyone's distracted.
No one's gonna see them as the problem.
They have now taken control of the entire narrative
so no one will place blame on them
but instead you are seen as the bad one.
You probably just have a really strict family
and they have control over your finances,
over who you hang around with,
over how you dress,
you express yourself,
where you go,
when you go there,
whether you're even allowed out of the house.
By the time you get to 16 and legally you are allowed to work
and now you want to go and apply to jobs
so that you can get a little bit of independence and fun
being able to live like a normal teenager
and your parents say you're not allowed to,
that is not okay.
And it doesn't just stop with teens.
I knew people in university who were in their 20s
and their parents managed all of their finances
and they tell you that they do it to protect you
and I promise you that is so far from the truth
because do you know what real protection looks like?
It looks like love and affection and listening
and being there for you when you need to talk
and giving you advice and supporting you
through the hardships that life is gonna throw at you
in every other area.
Not taking away all of your freedom
and trying to run your life in a way that suits them
so that they can either save their reputation
or basically keep you in a child's position.
This is especially what a narcissistic parent
or family member would do.
They are gonna try their hardest to withhold your autonomy
and make sure that you don't gain independence
so that you are constantly reliant on them.
Sign number seven, aggression.
This goes without saying, physical harm, hitting you.
Once again, linking back to how they scream at you,
shout at you, what they say.
We are talking physical abuse, emotional abuse
and mental abuse.
No child, teenager or adult should ever be afraid
of their own parent or family member.
If you find yourself at school, at work
or with your friends and you are dreading coming home
or you are trying to prolong the time
in which you are out of the house
so that you don't have to go back
to that terrifying environment, that is not okay.
And just like all of the signs
that we have mentioned so far,
a completely valid reason to take a step back
from your family and to cut off that tie.
Sign eight, guilt and manipulation.
Manipulation can be in the form of trying to get you
to think in a way that suits them.
This could be by viewing other family members
in a certain way to keep you away from them,
to dislike them, to basically withhold you
from any potential support.
Manipulation also links back to sign number one, gaslighting.
They will manipulate you into thinking
that you are not good enough,
that you are a bad kid, that you deserve
all of the bad treatment that they give to you.
And then to maintain control over you,
they'll probably manipulate you into thinking
that you absolutely need them to survive
and you won't be able to do anything.
You'll go out into the world
and you won't do well in work.
You're not gonna get a good job.
You're not capable of getting good grades.
No one's gonna wanna be your friend
who's gonna wanna marry you.
They're manipulating your self-perception
and your self-esteem to keep you this big
so that they can hold you comfortably
in their pocket and control you for life.
Guilt works in a similar way
when you act in a way that does not match the expectations,
which first of all is absolutely crazy.
Like for any sort of family member to be like,
this person has to do this a certain way.
Otherwise I'm gonna act out or yell at them.
I cannot believe how normalized
that has become in families as well.
You are your own person.
But a toxic family member does not have
the intelligence to even process this.
And so they will guilt trip you for doing anything
that doesn't match their personal beliefs
or how they would do something.
You got a bad grade in a test?
I can't believe you would do that.
How much work we have put into to send you
to a good school, to get you a tutor,
to buy you the textbooks.
I can't believe you would disrespect us like this.
This whole family is counting on you to do well in school.
Or let's say you just made a mistake.
You came back home a little later than you should have
or any typical mistake, which is completely okay.
You're a human.
You need to make mistakes to live and learn from them.
But in a toxic family, no, no, no, no, no.
You are not allowed to make mistakes.
And when you do, we are gonna use it as ammunition
and we are going to hold it near to us
for years and years and years and years
so that we can hold it against you
and basically show you how much of a bad person you are.
So when you make a typical mistake
that any other teenager would have made,
we are gonna make it into the biggest deal
to make you feel so badly about yourself.
We'll probably punish or ground you
so that we can have more control over you.
And then eventually so that you feel so bad about yourself
that you feel like you owe us something.
And that way we can keep you on your best behaviour.
Sign number nine, jealousy.
The main way that this can be seen
is when you have a family member
that simply does not like you no matter what you do.
You could be the nicest, most supportive person ever.
You could do everything for them.
They're never gonna like you
and you literally don't know why.
And the reason this happens
is because they're jealous of you and you trigger them.
You trigger whatever limiting beliefs
they have about themselves or their life
or you trigger the trauma that they have been through.
And as a result, they're going to project
all of their limiting beliefs onto you.
They want to believe that you're a bad person.
Don't underestimate how common jealousy is
even if it's from someone
who is significantly older than you and your family
who you might even look up to
and think they have their life together.
What are they so upset about?
They are going to hate you for your confidence.
Let's say that you are a creative
and you're doing something that's outside of the box
that the family hasn't done before.
They're gonna hate you for it.
They're gonna hate you for what you post on social media,
for what you wear, for the friends you kind of have.
If you're in a relationship,
they're not gonna be happy for you
like a normal family member would.
And even if you think you don't have a lot to be proud of,
you haven't achieved a lot,
sometimes these family members
see your potential before you do
and they want to shut it down immediately
so that you don't overtake them
because they're so deeply insecure.
And lastly, sign number 10,
endless expectation.
Basically, whenever they say
you need to do this, this, and this, and this
to make us proud,
you do everything to do it
and then you achieve it.
And when you achieve it,
it's like, on to the next thing.
Where's my celebration?
I worked for years at this.
I thought this was gonna make you guys happy.
I thought this was gonna make you guys
treat me well and love me.
No, on to the next thing.
Basically, you will never be good enough.
You could be doing everything right.
You got the good grades,
but then your toxic family turns around.
Okay, what about uni?
And then you get into the great university
and you conquer it.
You kill it.
Okay, but how are you gonna get a job?
Why don't you have a job yet?
When are you gonna get a higher salary?
When are you gonna get a promotion?
That's not a good enough job title.
What are people gonna think?
You get a good job.
Why aren't you married yet?
I don't get it.
Why aren't you dating?
Dress like this, work like this,
act like this, talk like this.
That is not family.
That is a group of people
who are committed to tearing down
your self-esteem on a daily basis
and reducing you to achievements
rather than appreciating you
for just being you,
which is what real love is.
Chapter two, switching your mindset
so that now you can deal
with all of those signs like a boss.
A quick disclaimer
before we get into the mindset switches,
you need to have already
communicated with your family, okay,
or gotten help from another family member.
And if that has failed
and you cannot cut off your family yet
or move out,
then these mindset shifts will help you.
And to give a little introduction to it,
let's bring in our girls,
Lola and Athena,
to illustrate the points I am about to make.
Both of these girls
do not have a good home life.
They are dealing with toxic families.
They cannot move out yet.
It's horrible, right?
And this is how they deal with it.
Lola feels sorry for herself
and complains to anyone
that will listen every single day.
She also engages in arguments
with her family all the time
because they're mean
and they're irritating
and it's like,
stop getting on my nerves, you know?
So she reacts super easily.
She's gotten to a point
where her mental health is really struggling
and she feels so sad
that she's actually given up on life
and what she wants to do
because what's the point
if she's not even allowed to do anything?
She stays in her room all day long,
keeping herself occupied on her phone,
scrolling or talking to anybody
that will get her attention.
And whenever she's out and about
and she sees other people,
she constantly is plagued by this thought of,
everyone else has it so easy,
being able to throw parties
and hang out with their parents
like they're friends.
Why can't I have that?
On the other hand,
we have our girl, Athena,
who is also very sad about her situation, okay?
She knows it's unfair.
And even after doing the necessary healing
and inner work,
it still comes up some days
to haunt her and hurt her.
But she doesn't use that
as an excuse to complain.
Why? Because she knows complaining every day
is only going to deplete her energy
and lower her vibration.
She does not want to be more so
in this state of negativity
than she already is.
When Athena is finding her family
especially annoying
and they're getting on her nerves
and being mean,
she detaches herself
and removes herself from the situation.
She knows their words
and their treatment of her are not personal.
They are simply projecting
they have their own issues.
They have been in this consistent toxic pattern
for a long time.
So she zones out,
she switches off.
She is more concerned with maintaining her peace
than trying to prove a point.
Athena also doesn't have a lot of freedom.
She's not allowed out of the house a lot.
So she gets creative with her daily routine.
She exercises in her bedroom
using workout videos on YouTube.
She draws,
she paints,
she does free online art courses
so that she can learn more
and develop herself in her career.
She calls her friends regularly
to actually get that emotional support and connection.
She tries new hobbies
and stays away from low vibe habits
that drain her energy
like scrolling on social media all day.
And lastly,
as heartbreaking as it feels
when she sees other people out and about
enjoying their time with their family,
she lets the comparison thoughts pass
rather than dwelling and entertaining them.
She knows she can't change the cards
that she's been dealt in life.
All she can do is focus on making them work in her favor.
And that's what we're about to go through.
So mindset shift number one,
when we go back to the sign of gaslighting,
if these people are just not hearing you
and are so set in trying to make out
like you're overreacting
and making the whole thing up,
stop trying to explain yourself
if they're not listening.
Stop expecting different outcomes
to these same people
who are stuck at one point in their life
and will obviously never grow.
At this point,
you need to cut off all trust,
reliance and expectation.
And instead,
step away to create a better life for yourself
rather than constantly complaining
and wishing for something that will never arrive.
Mindset shift number two,
when it comes to invalidation in a toxic family.
Listen,
some people are actually just incapable
of invalidating your feelings.
So instead of getting super sad
and dwelling on the fact
that they don't care about you
and they don't love you
and why can't they just do this one thing
that is so easy
and just say they understand me,
they're literally not capable of it.
They have no emotional intelligence.
They can't validate your feelings
because they've been pushing down
their own feelings their entire life.
They are a hurt,
miserable,
unhealed version of themselves
and they are constantly stuck like that.
So how can you even expect them
to have the capacity to be there for you
when they can't even be there for themselves?
They are stuck in survival.
They can't even begin to process
the concept of taking care of your own feelings.
They are too weak to accept accountability
for their own actions.
So you have to validate yourself
and you should have so much trust in yourself
and your own experience
and your thought process.
You don't need their opinion
on whether what you think is wrong or right.
The next mindset shift
is about being the black sheep in your family
and I find this term so ironic
because the only reason
that you are blamed
and you are disliked
and you were left out of your family
is because you have broken the role
that they wanted to place you in.
You probably worked on yourself,
set boundaries,
raised your standards,
developed self-love
and as a result of that,
you were then punished
and made the black sheep of the family.
But all that really means
is that you're not a follower.
You see when they are acting irrationally
and mean and you don't follow that behaviour
or share that same belief system.
You think on your own terms.
So you're not a sheep.
The rest of them are.
They are all following each other
to maintain this dysfunctional family
because they don't know any different.
You are so free and you are so blessed
to see that entire facade for what it is
and break away from it.
You see through everyone's BS
and guess what?
Your uniqueness is what is going to make you great.
So instead of sitting around
feeling sorry for yourself
that you are not accepted in the family
like everybody else is
and you're not the favourite child,
take a second to look around
at your family members and think,
do I really want to be like you when I'm older?
Do I really want to have your lifestyle?
Would I want to trade places with you?
Absolutely the f*** not.
So thank God you're nothing like them.
Thank God you're the black sheep.
I am a big believer that our adversities
are a gift that are going to make us
into who we are really meant to be.
You had to be put into this family
to break the pattern.
You were the only one that was strong enough
to be given this gift of adversity
rather than everybody else
because you were the only one strong enough
to break it.
And that challenge will force you to grow
and learn and reach a higher potential
than most ever would.
And it's only possible if you fight through it.
And I'm not saying that it's easy or it's fair,
but think about it.
Majority of successful people go through it.
Have you ever heard somebody
who was so successful
and have broken so many barriers
who had a super easy life
and a super easy upbringing?
No, never.
Because if your life was perfect
and you had the perfect family
and everything was easy,
who would ever be motivated
to do something extraordinary?
Mindset shift number four.
When they belittle you,
insult you and are rude to you,
I need you to realise
they simply have a dirty mouth
and they've never known how to clean it.
On top of that,
you need to realise
they probably don't just talk to you in that way.
They probably treat anybody else in their life
in that exact way
when they become frustrated
and most importantly,
they speak to themselves in that way.
I don't use foul language
towards other people
even when they have annoyed me
because it's simply not in my vocabulary.
I'm actually quite a happy
and content individual
who loves her life.
So yes, are people going to get on my nerves?
100%.
Are people going to be annoying and mean?
Yes.
It's okay.
It's okay because you know what?
I have a great life to give back to
and I'm not out here
trying to ruin my energy
by focusing on trying to make you feel bad
and make you really small.
That's what your toxic family member
is doing to you.
So for a second, yeah,
when they are standing opposite you
and they are calling you every name in the block
and they are trying to make you small,
stay quiet.
Don't fight back.
Don't argue, okay?
I don't know how I answered this yet.
Do not argue.
That is how you give your power away.
When they are being rude to you,
you're going to stand there,
you're going to be silent,
and you're just going to act like you're listening.
But I actually want you to zone out
and I want you to realise in your head
while this is happening,
like actually like laugh to yourself in your head.
This is how you gain all your power back
when you take them off this pedestal
and stop believing that you deserve this treatment
and instead you remember,
what the heck is this?
Like I can't believe that they're this miserable
and this angry
and have this much hater energy
to be doing all of this.
Like you're moving so extra for what, please?
If you're annoyed with me
and you have an issue
or I've done something wrong,
100% it happens in families.
Tell me what I've done wrong
and tell me how I can fix it.
And that's fine.
That's normal adult mature communication.
For all of this anger to just be spewing out of you
so effortlessly,
I feel sorry for you.
Don't you feel so much better now?
Don't you feel so much more powerful?
And the same goes for when they're acting jealous
and when they're trying to humiliate you
and put themselves on a pedestal
and try to show like this shiny exterior of themselves
to anyone else who will listen
and manage other people's perceptions of you
and why you are so bad.
Let them.
When you let them,
you take back your power.
When you are seen as the one
who is constantly fighting and arguing back
and be like,
no guys, but this isn't true and this is...
People aren't actually listening to what you're saying.
They are still believing the narrative
that's been pushed of you,
which is that you are problematic
and you love to argue.
You're dramatic.
You're sensitive.
You are validating all of their false beliefs
by acting in that way.
And I know it's not easy,
but you need to think about bigger picture for a second.
Okay?
Eventually, you're going to move out.
You're going to create an amazing life for yourself
and you're going to be the black sheep
that turn into the goat of the family.
So listen, let them be jealous.
Let them be threatened by your future potential and success.
Let them humiliate you.
Doesn't matter.
You're a little old family
who you wouldn't even want to trade lives for for a second.
Their opinions don't hold any weight.
Why are you still taking it as truth?
Why are you letting it hurt your feelings?
And then when it comes to dealing with isolation,
this is very hard.
It is such a big form of abuse
for somebody to hold you back
and not allow you to live your own life.
All you can do in this situation
is find certain ways around it.
Try and stay at school for longer.
For me personally, school used to finish at 3.30.
I wouldn't come home till 6
because I would just tell my family
that I was studying at school.
Try to join some sort of extracurricular club at school
where it kind of gives you an excuse
to stay away from the house.
The worst thing you can do in this situation is think,
oh, my parents have now made things harder for me
and things aren't fair
and I have now all of these obstacles
that most people don't
so I can't do anything.
Absolutely false.
You just have to think outside of the box
and get more creative.
The next and most important mindset shift
is learning emotional detachment.
I have an entire video on my channel
committed to learning this practice
so I highly recommend you watch it
if you haven't already.
Essentially, this mindset shift
is about observing the toxicity
rather than accepting it
and understanding it literally has nothing to do with you.
The second you start taking their words
and treatment as personal,
game over.
Your mental health is going to go down the drain
and I completely get it.
I used to be stuck in the mindset of like,
why am I not good enough
and what can I do to be accepted and loved
and I literally hated myself
because I took the criticism and the judgment
and the swearing as truth about me,
about my character,
about what I deserved
and what I was going to accomplish in life.
Once you build up mental strength,
someone is right here screaming at you,
telling you how you're not good enough
and how you are such a bad person
and you can look at them like you're listening
but inside you're like,
doesn't mean anything, doesn't mean anything.
This is all to do with them.
Every single insult and judgment they give me
is simply a confession of their lived truth.
Then the table's flipped
and when you do this,
you stop chasing their validation as well
which once again is going to get you that power
and this links into the last mindset shift
which is your toxic family members
are just human beings.
They are human beings that are flawed,
that are insecure,
that are messy,
that make mistakes and that are toxic.
When we get so into this mindset about
but you are my mum,
but you are my dad,
how could you do this to me?
How could you treat me like this?
Completely valid to think like that and hurt like that
but it's not going to do you any well.
When you take your family members,
your parents off the pedestal
and you just see them as people
and you see them as these incomplete works in progress,
literally they don't know any better.
They're not capable of doing any better.
It's not even about you.
It's not about the fact that you're not good enough
or you're not lovable
and you can't be the right kind of person.
They just don't know how to be there for you
and when you stop seeing your parents as parents
and you just look at them as regular people,
trust me when I say it doesn't hurt as much anymore
and instead it really helps to reparent yourself.
You need to be there for yourself
and you need to cheer yourself on.
You need to give yourself advice
and be there for you
and do yourself love
and give yourself affection if they can't.
And this links into the final chapter.
Chapter number three,
habits to survive and maintain good mental health
in this toxic environment.
All you can do is take back control of your happiness
and this is how.
One, disassociation and detachment.
You don't absorb the words,
you simply observe
and it's really helpful to identify triggers as well
to make sure that you can avoid certain situations.
You know, you can't keep expecting different outcomes
to the same old conversation.
Habit number two,
keep a diary or log of this behavior.
This is so underrated, okay?
It's gonna help you because listen,
they are gonna gaslight you,
they are gonna invalidate you,
they are gonna make you feel
like you deserve everything
and you're making it up.
Get out the notes app in your phone.
Every time something happens,
they make you cry,
you have an argument,
you feel horrible,
they said something mean,
even if it was like a two minute negative interaction,
you're gonna go to your room,
you're gonna type it up,
write the date
and then write what happened.
This is not so that you can show the whole world,
this is so you can show yourself
so that next time you are being gaslighted
and you're like,
like, do I have it that bad?
Or if you are finally at the stage
where you are ready to cut them off,
which I do think everyone should do
because no one should have to tolerate toxic people
even if they are your own family
and you are struggling to take that step
and you are struggling to go no contact
or even to set a boundary
and say no to these people,
you're gonna read through the list.
Habit number three,
prioritize love.
This is the thing that is truly gonna save you
and make sure that you're happy in life.
Sometimes the people that you meet along the way in life
have better intentions and purer love for you
than the family that you were born into
and this is where your chosen family comes into play.
You can only tolerate and give so many chances
to your family before you decide this is enough
and you step away and you go out into the world
and honestly,
it's just about finding people
that genuinely care for you
and they wanna see you thrive
and they wanna be there for you
and immediately they should be part
above the family you were born into.
The sooner you learn about the importance
of your chosen family,
the happier you will be.
As human beings,
we all need love in order to thrive in life, okay?
You cannot allow your bad experiences with your family
to make you isolate yourself
or be distrustful.
Allowing that to hold you back
from forming meaningful connections
with other people who will just love you
and make you happy again
is self-sabotage.
So make finding that a priority.
Habit number four,
happy hormone regulation.
We have four hormones in our body
which contribute to our happiness.
These include oxytocin,
dopamine,
endorphins
and serotonin.
And there are literal daily habits
you can contribute into your routine
to increase these hormones
to make sure that you feel more happiness
because listen,
when you're stuck with a toxic family
and being forced to live in a toxic environment,
you have to do overtime
to make sure you maintain that level of happiness.
This links into habit number five,
raise your vibration.
If you have watched my previous videos,
then you know all about this chart
which is extremely important.
When we are stuck in a toxic family,
we get very used to existing
on this vibration of guilt
and shame and sadness.
And that's not how you want to be living, okay?
And the thing about vibration is
whatever energy you surround yourself with
also becomes your own vibration.
So it kind of becomes default
to be at the lower vibrations
because of the energy in the house
and the arguments that might be taking place.
FaceTime your friends,
do your favourite hobby
to light yourself up
and inject that joy back into your life.
Try your best to disengage
with your toxic family members.
This is why I say,
never argue back.
Even when you're right,
even when they're being irrational,
you are spending unnecessary time
with these family members
that you don't need to.
And the last piece of advice for this video
is to please try therapy.
If you can afford it,
I highly recommend it.
That is the only way
you are going to be able to unpack this trauma
and really get through it
by going to a professional.
You know, there are online services
like BetterHelp
or once again,
just you watching videos
like this
to learn better coping strategies
is your best bet
for when you're feeling down.
There are literal books
that you can buy
on understanding the mind of a narcissist
or surviving a toxic family.
When you start understanding
their psychology
and the signs,
not only will you be able
to better validate yourself,
but you'll be able to get through it
because you won't be taking it personally.
And that brings us
to the end of this video.
I really, really, really hope
that this helped you in some way.
If it did,
comment down below
and let me know what you learned.
I really appreciate
all of the feedback
you guys give me on my videos.
It makes sure that I can pour
more energy and more knowledge
into my newer videos
to make them better for you guys.
So I would love to hear your feedback.
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it will really help.
And hey, you got this.
You're hella strong
and I believe in you.
And one day you're going to get out,
you're going to move out,
you're going to create
a wonderful life for yourself.
Please keep visualizing that
because it is going to happen for you.
