Challenging Toxic Thinking

Published: Jan. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.

Challenging Toxic Thinking   Many of the emotional burdens that individuals carry in their lives revolve around the characteristics of toxic thinking.  We tend to accept certain beliefs, values, attitudes, feelings, and behaviors as being "normal" for all of us.  If we accept this one-size-fits-all view, we often choose toxic outcomes like guilt and shame.   Toxicity is often managed by challenging the thinking which declines to change as the situations in our life change.   We each have the personal power to make new choices to encourage the presence of positive mental health by reducing the influence of mental and emotional toxicity.