Make No More Excuses For Bad Behavior: Identifying Toxic Traits
Identifying toxic traits involves naming these traits, recognizing the different types, and understanding what they really are and where they originate. Reflecting on this topic, I thought back to some of my own negative behaviors and wondered why I acted that way. The simple answer was that everyone in my circle behaved similarly, so I didn't realize anything was wrong with my actions.
It’s ironic how, when we're in an unhealed state, we often fail to see the things that are harming us, and we end up hurting ourselves even more through trauma responses to the situations we face. It becomes all too easy to make excuses for our behavior; for instance, how many times have you said, "They made me do it?" Have you ever stopped to ask yourself why others seem to have so much control over how you behave?
The pivotal moment in my life came when…
