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  • Toxic People: How to Deal with Energy Vampires

  • Set Healthy Boundaries in Relationship, Marriage, and Your Life Using Emotional Intelligence and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Stop Bad Habits
  • By: Sara Gilman
  • Narrated by: Sara Gilman, Marie Morton
  • Length: 25 hrs and 6 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (25 ratings)

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Toxic People: How to Deal with Energy Vampires

By: Sara Gilman
Narrated by: Sara Gilman, Marie Morton
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Do you struggle with drawing and maintaining boundaries when dealing with the people in your life? Are you highly sensitive and attuned to others' feelings and energy, to the point where you can't tell where their energy ends and yours begins? Do you have trouble protecting yourself from "energy vampires"? If so, you're probably an empath—and in need of some guidance.

In relationships, the presence of healthy boundaries keeps relationships healthy and functional. The rights and responsibilities remain justified, and encroachment of personal space doesn't take place. Boundaries can help in preventing relationships from becoming toxic.

You'll feel less stressed and compromised if you have set healthy boundaries. Setting healthy boundaries will make you feel liberated. You will have your personal space and won't feel suffocated.

Not having healthy boundaries will have consequences. Trespassing limits will become commonplace. You'll be forced to hide things from the person you were looking to share with. The love and longing will vanish. Cribbing and nagging will increase.

In this audiobook, you will discover:

  • Learn when to say yes and no
  • Why should you care about your gifts
  • How can you know for sure your boundaries are appropriately set
  • The consequences of ignoring vampires around you
  • How will you learn to be free from the pressure
  • How other people help you
  • Tricks for handling toxic people
  • How to develop the new habit of saying no
  • What happens when you don't let life pass you by
  • Wake up every day with high energy and desire to heal yourself and others
  • Inspire yourself and others to create the life they want
  • Feel comfortable with your identity and teach others to respect you

You don't have to let your life spiral out of control. Discover how boundaries make life better today!

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©2022 Sara Gilman (P)2022 Sara Gilman
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Extremely useful

This audiobook has very simple but extremely helpful material for creating healthy physical and emotional boundaries. If you have had problems with relationships, this may be worth taking a look at, as I found that there were so many things I was doing that were unhealthy. Becoming enmeshed with my partner instead of keeping my independence. It also explains a lot why those who have had situations in their childhood may struggle with these things more than others.

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Very practical, I loved this audiobook!

It is exactly what I needed - to the point, with clear directions, a step-by-step approach to figuring out why my boundaries are like they are, how they are or aren't serving me in my current situation and how I can change them to improve my relationships while still respecting my own needs and not apologizing for them.

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Great resource!

This was a very interesting audiobook. My wife and I listened it together, and it was enlightening to see how some of our issues could be attributed to our boundary patterns. We learned a lot about each other by listening this audiobook, even though we've been married more than 10 years. The insight we took away will continue to strengthen our relationship. Highly recommended!

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Helpful

I love that the Author is so personable and relates her own experiences and journey. Listening this audiobook, I can now recognize that I have armoured boundaries from difficult experiences but I'm learning to soften them and let people in.

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Save a few years of therapy

Listening this audiobook helped me understand several common relationship problems that I've had throughout the years and where they were rooted from, and I'll be using the knowledge for many years to come. This audiobook was recommended to me by my wonderful therapist.

Key takeaway: If your boundaries are repeatedly violated as a child, you can lose your sense of who you are and start being overly accommodating and flexible to the point that you're not whole.

Includes useful examples, stories, and exercises. This audiobook even touches on sexual boundary violations as well.

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Great book.

It is truly helpful for people looking to set healthy boundaries whether it be with another adult or child. Highly recommended for anyone on the healing journey in any family situation. Great exercises in the book as well.

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Super!

This was the perfect audiobook to help me at this phase of my growth. I will be setting better boundaries and monitoring my energy regularly to make sure I notice when bottom feeders are impacting me.

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This audiobook has been incredibly insightful in examining the various behaviors of narcissists (both "garden variety" and malicious/sociopaths/psychopaths) and identifying ways to either react or disengage, depending on the person and the situation. I appreciated how the information was specifically tuned for highly sensitive people (or "empaths"), since I often feel that I am this way. The end of the audiobook was dedicated to self-care ideas and techniques, which was a positive, helpful way to close the audiobook.

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Essential for effective relationships

Excellent audiobook! It really helped me see and understand my own patterns better and thus change my behaviours. As a result, I am able to create more harmonious relationships with my kids.

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A very useful audiobook on toxic people and boundaries. Clear explanations of the field (e.g. difference between boundaries and rules) and examples of practical application in different scenarios.

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