”Life is a sacred journey within which the soul has a destination. Becoming more fully awake is an active choice. Exercising choices reveals the way to awaken to ever-unfolding enlightenment.”   A.J. Mahari. From her website, “Awakening To Enlightenment.”

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Guest Article

                 Toxic Relationships and The Need to Let Go,  by A. J. Mahari

Life is a series of hellos and good-byes. It is about attaching, connecting, and often separating and then detaching, disconnecting and letting go. In toxic relationships all-too-often one or both participants are not skilled when it comes to limits, boundaries, or letting go. Toxic people get addicted and have issues of neediness that cause them to avoid letting go when a healthier person would run the other way from the sheer emotional pain and suffering alone.

Not all connections are healthy ones. Many people get involved in what are known as toxic unhealthy relationships or even friendships. You can identify a toxic unhealthy relational dynamic when you feel that you are losing yourself to the control, wants, temper, or abuse of another, or if you are the one becoming abusive yourself for whatever reason.

Toxic unhealthy relationships often play out the unresolved wounds of our childhoods. Read the rest of this entry »