Hello friends and welcome back to the podcast. I am so excited to talk to you

guys today on this Monday. I hope you guys are having a great Monday when

you're listening. I hope you're feeling still great and motivated after the new year. I still have a lot of energy I find after the new year. I mean, I guess it's only Wednesday on the first official week of January today, so I haven't really made it that far.

But I still am feeling really motivated and really just positive right now,

which made me want to talk about today's topic because over the past few months I didn't

exactly feel this way and I really processed a lot of emotions, a lot of feelings, and the

best way to do that is just to take all those thoughts and throw them in a podcast.

So today's episode I'm really excited for because I think it's one that we all need and it's all about negativity.

So negativity within ourselves and also negativity within

others and other circumstances dealing with negative people but also our own

negativity the negativity that we have in our mind, how we talk to ourselves, how we let our thoughts affect our work, our relationships, our habits, because I think that this is a double-edged sword and I think a lot of times we like to blame our circumstances or other people and while yes, you know, we do have to deal with people who maybe aren't the most positive or circumstances that aren't the most positive.

I have found over the past few months a lot of the kind of mental fog I had been experiencing was because of the own negativity that I had in my mind and allowing that to just

control me. And so I really wanted to put together an episode all about this. Kind of the breakdown for this,

I first just want to talk about kind of my outlook on negativity, what I think it is,

from both a biblical perspective but also a secular perspective or just from like research online. and then I also just want to go in

different realms that we deal with negativity and how to deal with it when you're

receiving it and how to deal with it when you're the one who's being the negative one.

I think there are a few realms that I

personally experienced this the most, so I'm just going to talk about my own experience, but also

stories and kind of real life experience that I've had dealing with these things. So the first one is

gossip. So when I was the one who was receiving it and also how I dealt with it when I was the one who was

you know engaging in it and then also dealing with toxic relationships and also whenever

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