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A Nifty Approach To Space Out Toxic Connections

Altering life-course requires you to shapeshift

Sven Vandenberghe
7 min readSep 18, 2023
Photo by Judeus Samson on Unsplash

“I don’t like the phrase toxic connections. For me, it’s a myth.”

Everyone should take responsibility knowing that they choose what’s happening in their life. When we talk about toxic connections, most often it’s about “friends,” “colleagues,” or even certain family members.

Being able to control how you respond to reroute your path is important. It’s not all that obvious, and it takes willpower and commitment to steer a precise heading in life.

To Do So

You might have to undertake drastic measures like letting go of other (toxic) relationships. This is about spacing out.

When you “space out” the relationship with certain friends, colleagues, or even family members you can feel like an asshole. But when you do this with care (space out) it provides you with two positive things:

  1. You’ll prioritize important time with family (the best investment you can make)
  2. You’ll automatically restructure the social connections that are the strongest and most meaningful in your life.

Friends

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Sven Vandenberghe
Sven Vandenberghe

Written by Sven Vandenberghe

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