458 How to Handle Anxiety When You're Around Toxic People

如何应对与有毒人物相处时的焦虑

Your Anxiety Toolkit - Anxiety & OCD Strategies for Everyday

2025-11-04

30 分钟
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In this episode, Kimberley Quinlan shares compassionate, practical tools to help you manage anxiety around "toxic" or triggering people—without losing your peace, your confidence, or your values.
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  • Welcome everybody.

  • We are going to talk about how to handle anxiety around toxic people.

  • And this is specifically for those we want to focus on doing this without ruminating for hours and without completely losing ourselves in the process.

  • So here is the big question.

  • Have you ever walked away from a conversation with someone and felt completely dysregulated.

  • You feel so bad about yourself.

  • You feel like you're going completely crazy all of a sudden,

  • and you can't help but overthink the entire interaction.

  • A lot of my clients will say to me, it feels like I absorb people's negative energy.

  • They might say, when she acts this way, I get so triggered, I just cannot control myself.

  • They lose control completely.

  • Or maybe they say,

  • my anxiety goes through the roof and I overthink everything as soon as I'm around this person.

  • So today, what we are going to do is we are going to talk about how we can care for you.

  • and your anxiety when you're dealing with these quote unquote toxic people,

  • whether it's your co-worker, it's your friend, your family member, doesn't matter.

  • I'm going to give you a really, really good metaphor that I use with my clients all the time.

  • Now, here is what we're doing on the agenda today.

  • Number one, we are going to talk about why anxiety skyrockets around certain people.

  • Number two, how to set boundaries that you can actually help reduce your anxiety,