The Antidote for Toxic Relationships With Dr. Brad Miller
Welcome to Dr. Brad Miller’s Episode 256 of “The Beyond Adversity Podcast.”
In this episode, Dr Brad discussed toxic relationships and the antidotes we can use to eliminate them. He also shares the story of when he himself experienced toxicity from an individual in the church.
Dr Brad talks about the toxic person he met at their church.
Although being a pastor in a church led him to help many people and meet great individuals with high spirituality, there are still some toxic people who are hurtful to others.
This led him to leave the church to prevent any damage to his family’s life.
Dr Brad also talks about A. Garcia, about how she experienced a life-threatening situation with his toxic husband. When A realized her situation, she made the best decision, which was to escape the domestic violence she was in.
Dr Brad defines toxic relationships as poison, which can hurt us deeply. Or in the worst-case scenario, kill us.
As such, antidotes are needed to stop the damage of a poison. If you are in a toxic relationship, you must remember that you must do something and take action to escape.
Dr Brad talks about the four C’s, which is the antidote for toxic relationships. The first is confrontation. Second is cutting out the toxic relationship. The third is to commit yourself. Lastly, connect with a higher power.
Episode 256 of The Beyond Adversity Podcast is a must-listen for anyone in a toxic relationship with other people—those who are struggling to escape from the poisonous situation and want to find the cure.
“The Beyond Adversity Podcast with Dr. Brad Miller is published weekly with the mission of helping people “Grow Through What They Go Through” as they navigate adversity and discover their promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose.
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Transcript
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Hello good people, and welcome to Beyond adversity
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with Dr. Brad Miller. It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege
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to have you here with me today, as I look to share into
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your life, something that can help you transform from a
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state of adversity to a state of what we call the promise life.
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Love the life of peace, and prosperity and purpose.
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As always, I'm coming to you from the aloft studios in my
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home office, just outside of beautiful Indianapolis, Indiana.
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And we are thankful and grateful so much that you that
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you have chosen to spend a few moments with me allowing
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it as you go about your day working out, or doing chores.
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Love it. I'm here to speak into your life. I come into your
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company with a background in pastoral ministry, 42 years
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of pastoral ministry, in a local church settings and a doctoral
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degree in transformational leadership, I got something
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to share with you about some things that can be put into
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your life, to help you to navigate adversity, to grow
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through what you go through. And to achieve your life
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of peace and prosperity, and purpose. Today, we're
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talking about toxic people, and toxic relationships. The title
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of this talk is the antidote to toxic relationships. They want
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Today, we're talking about toxic people and toxic relationships.
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And it's precipitated by the conversation that I had in
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Episode 254 and 255. With a woman named A. Garcia.
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A. Garcia came through toxic relationships of her own.
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It included abuse, physical, emotional, and, and relationship abuse.
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And included attempted murder on her life by a partner by
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person in her life, and included her taking dramatic
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steps to save her own life, save the life of her child and
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then to get out of that situation, that toxic relationship and
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to create the life that she calls be your incredible self.
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Her website is beyourincredibleself.com. And she talks about
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getting through the trauma, but she called you to have
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post traumatic growth and to survive domestic violence
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in order to have post traumatic growth. And when I would
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share with you today is you can't have growth, until you get
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out of your toxic relationships. So today, I want to give you some
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bit of stories out of my life and about of about how you can
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respond to toxic relationships. Now, I've mentioned a couple times.
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And if you got to know me over the course of time here and
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beyond adversity, you know that I've spent much of my
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life as a pastor in local churches. And in many ways, there's
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nothing better than being a pastor of a local church, when
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things are going well. And people have come together for
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a common purpose in order to, to, to build a community of
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faith, to serve the needs of others, and to be a part of a
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process to be helpful to help people grow spiritually, and to
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come together and fellowship to serve others. I've been part
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of church groups that have helped to rebuild homes after
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tornadoes come around people who have lost a loved ones,
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and to be healing forces when people have had all kinds of
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troubles spiritually and physically and in every way, and indeed
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be on mission trips to all around the world, where you see
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things coming together is awesome. When people work
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together for a common cause nothing better. You see, life
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transformation often takes place in groups like that. The
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flip side of it is the local church and other connections with
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people can sometimes include people who are going to be
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hurtful and painful, who are toxic, dangerous, poisonous, if
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you will, in fact, in the world of clergy, we even have a term
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for this with people in your church who want to get you
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especially who want to get pastors moved out of a church
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or something like that. We call them clergy killers. That's
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our term we often have for them, people who really want
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to get you and to have their own issues going on and
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want to harm you in some way. Now, so in my years of ministry
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have experienced my share of joys. But I've also experienced
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my share of toxic people, clergy, killers, people who wanted to
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get rid of me or to help me, you know, just didn't like me for
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whatever reason. And I've seen how they've hurt one another
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well. Now, I imagine in your life, you've had people who've hurt
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you as well, or you've been around people who are toxic.
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Sometimes they're even in our own families. In fact, you often
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when we talk about domestic violence, it's people in our own
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families. But let me talk to you in the church setting one
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I'm familiar with for just a moment, just a couple of situations
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come to mind. One was a guy called him Bill, I knew Bill was
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going to be quite toxic, even when I met him, even before I
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even came to the church to be the pastor there. I just tell by
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the edge and vibe with him. And I knew a little bit about him
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that he had moved from some other churches to be a part
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of church I was pastoring at. Because of some issues he had,
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with pastors in those churches, that word gets around, you know,
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pastors talk among themselves, as well as about folks is
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sometimes you folks are part of churches, talk about your
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pastors, we know that we get that, just like in the workplace,
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you talk about your boss, or you talk about your co workers,
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I get it, you get it as well. In this case, Bill became evident right
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away that he was going to try and to dominate me.
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And he was going to try to dominate me by going through
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other people and leverage me. And what really ticked me off
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one day, is when he tried to get to me by going after my two
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small sons at the time, who were young elementary age, and I
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don't know what they did, but they were at the church, and I
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was in another part of the church. And they were just goofing off
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like young kids do. And he started yelling at him. And it became
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very upsetting to you. And that's what he said, so much would
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upset my wife quite a bit. And I heard about it. And so I
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was not happy about that whole deal. And that's just one indicator
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of all the things that he was doing. Because he went after my
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kids who weren't doing much, they didn't deserve what he yelled
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at them about. And he didn't come to me first. So we had a bit of
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a exchange of, we had a bit of a confrontation about it. And
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here's what he said, and indicated into to me, that I was really
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up against a toxic person. Several times in a row, he used the
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phrase with me, am I right? Or am I right? Am I right? Or am I right?
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And of course, he wanted me to come back at him. Of course,
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you're right. But I didn't. I came back and said, Bill, you're wrong.
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And that led to a bit of a conflict. And that kind of exacerbated.
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So eventually, we had to go our separate ways. He and his family
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ended up leaving the church sometime later, but not without a few
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other difficulties. And I had other issues in churches as well,
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where people were, what I would call toxic, and it meant that
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something had to be done, or I would be damaged. My
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effectiveness would be damaged, my family would be damaged,
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my health would be damaged. My spiritual life would be damaged.
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You heard A talk about in the last few episodes how she
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had a toxic relationship with a partner, which led to her
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very life being threatened. Attempted murder, physical abuse,
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emotional verbal abuse, and she finally something snapped
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with her and she had to get out of there. She had to escape
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domestic violence she had to escape the toxicity. Now let
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me ask you something. What is that word toxic even mean?
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Really toxic? You've heard the phrase you've experienced
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yourself toxic people are toxic relationships. What it really
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means is poison doesn't it? Poison. And poison does what.
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it hurts and it kills. Why do you think it when you have
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certain materials under your sink, cleaning solutions and
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such and such they have that skull and claws, and crossbones
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thing several on there. And the numbers of poison control centers.
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It's because if somebody gets into it, it can hurt them deeply.
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And maybe even kill them. Poison is going to hurt you. Toxic
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means poison is gonna hurt or damage you.
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You've heard about people being bitten by snakes of course.
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A poisonous snake bites What are you going to do? They have
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to make an incision wherever the bite was made. You do, and the
Dr. Brad Miller:poison has to be sucked out by somebody suck it out with their
Dr. Brad Miller:mouth or special tubes and things like that. And you gotta get to
Dr. Brad Miller:the doctor you got to get it out. And worst case it you know, bad
Dr. Brad Miller:case scenarios and people are poisoned by a snake bite or something
Dr. Brad Miller:that worst case scenarios they lose their life. But many times
Dr. Brad Miller:people have lost the use of an arm or foot and even maybe
Dr. Brad Miller:had to have something amputated or cut off. Poison is a terrible
Dr. Brad Miller:way to be damaged or to die. It's often a somewhat slow moving
Dr. Brad Miller:process, meaning it's not like being shot or killed in a crash.
Dr. Brad Miller:It's going to work and lingering effects, I gotta tell you one
Dr. Brad Miller:particular point the worst poisonous situation I ever saw. And I
Dr. Brad Miller:won't get too graphic about this. But I worked with a young
Dr. Brad Miller:man who decided to end his own life by drinking a
Dr. Brad Miller:combination of toilet bowl cleanser, and alcohol, which
Dr. Brad Miller:literally burned his insides up. And it took about a month,
Dr. Brad Miller:it took three or four weeks for him to die of that terrible
Dr. Brad Miller:excruciating death. There's a whole lot of to that story.
Dr. Brad Miller:My point is, poison is terrible, and will tear you up before it kills you.
Dr. Brad Miller:Let's talk about something else that's poisonous, you know
Dr. Brad Miller:about this cancer. Not too long ago, I was recently diagnosed
Dr. Brad Miller:with cancer, it looks like about six weeks from now, it is likely that
Dr. Brad Miller:I'll have surgery to what, cut out the cancer. And if they don't
Dr. Brad Miller:cut it out, then it's going to be burned out by radiation or
Dr. Brad Miller:maybe a combination. If you have poison in your body,
Dr. Brad Miller:you have to take extreme measures to do something you
Dr. Brad Miller:got if you got poison, if you got toxins in your body, physical toxins,
Dr. Brad Miller:you either got to cut it out, or flush it out, or suck it out or get
Dr. Brad Miller:your stomach pumped. You got to take dramatic measures
Dr. Brad Miller:to deal with it. You can't let it go and linger. Because
Dr. Brad Miller:it will kill you. Now, here's what I want to share with you.
Dr. Brad Miller:He doesn't. If you're in a toxic relationship, you got to do
Dr. Brad Miller:something about it, or it will slowly destroy you. You got to do
Dr. Brad Miller:something about it. And I think many of you know exactly
Dr. Brad Miller:what I'm talking about. You've got that relationship you're
Dr. Brad Miller:thinking of it might be somebody in your old household.
Dr. Brad Miller:It might be somebody you work with, it might be somebody
Dr. Brad Miller:you go to church with, it might be somebody else in your life,
Dr. Brad Miller:that you have some sort of a toxic relationship that you have.
Dr. Brad Miller:But what are you going to do? When you have poison in your life,
Dr. Brad Miller:you got to do something about it, the response to poison
Dr. Brad Miller:is the antidote, isn't it? Your response is the antidote, it might
Dr. Brad Miller:be some drug that you take some potion that you take, or
Dr. Brad Miller:it might be surgery, or it might be radiation or maybe something
Dr. Brad Miller:else, or even amputation. There's responses to it. But you have
Dr. Brad Miller:to take a respond to the antidote. And so what I want to give
Dr. Brad Miller:you for just a few minutes here today is some points some
Dr. Brad Miller:antidotes to deal with toxic people in your life. Because if
Dr. Brad Miller:you keep going with it, it's going to hurt you. So let's talk
Dr. Brad Miller:about it for a minute. Let's talk about it. The first thing I
Dr. Brad Miller:want to share with you is I would call these the the sea of
Dr. Brad Miller:confrontation, the confrontation, you got to confront the adversity,
Dr. Brad Miller:you the sea, you got to confront it in your life, either internally in
Dr. Brad Miller:your old self and come to terms with it, that this is not
Dr. Brad Miller:good for me. And at times you need to confront the other
Dr. Brad Miller:person, not always. You gotta you gotta you gotta continue
Dr. Brad Miller:the ramifications of it. But the confrontation may need to
Dr. Brad Miller:take place. At any rate you got to confront you got to come
Dr. Brad Miller:to the AHA, the realization moment in your own right. But I
Dr. Brad Miller:can't keep living this way. That's the personal confrontation
Dr. Brad Miller:part of it. And there may be times when you need if it is a
Dr. Brad Miller:particular person in your life that you may need to confront
Dr. Brad Miller:them. It may come to that. Let's talk about A. Garcia, who
Dr. Brad Miller:was in our episode 254 and 255. She had to confront
Dr. Brad Miller:the situation. And she tried to confront it a couple
Dr. Brad Miller:of times personally. But her confrontation was to get
Dr. Brad Miller:out of the situation, you know, that she was in where
Dr. Brad Miller:she had to survive it. So the confrontation piece of this
Dr. Brad Miller:is a part of the survival piece. You cannot deal with your
Dr. Brad Miller:life you can't get on with your life until you deal with you
Dr. Brad Miller:know, if you have cancer, you really can't get on with
Dr. Brad Miller:your life to the you know, living your full life until you deal
Dr. Brad Miller:with the cancer. It's either got to be it's got to be dealt with
Dr. Brad Miller:chemically, radiation surgery, something's got to be done.
Dr. Brad Miller:In order to deal with the cancer. You got to confronted, it
Dr. Brad Miller:starts with yourself, you got to have that aha moment
Dr. Brad Miller:and saying, Okay, I can't keep living this way I got to confront it.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that's the confrontation piece. And the next part I'm going
Dr. Brad Miller:to share with you is a little bit controversial, perhaps. But
Dr. Brad Miller:if you think about it, not really, I'd call it the cut or the
Dr. Brad Miller:cut it out, you have to cut out that relationship, you
Dr. Brad Miller:have to put it in a box or put it in a place that you can
Dr. Brad Miller:deal with it. And what I mean by that is you have to decide
Dr. Brad Miller:how you're going to deal with this relationship with A, she
Dr. Brad Miller:got she and her daughter got out, they escaped. They
Dr. Brad Miller:escaped in a conference, a escape the situation, which was
Dr. Brad Miller:literally life threatening. In your case, and my case, you
Dr. Brad Miller:have to deal with how you're going to cut out a relationship.
Dr. Brad Miller:I had to help with some of the people I had conflicts with
Dr. Brad Miller:in church. There's a couple occasions when I basically had
Dr. Brad Miller:Hagen's, it's either you or me, you said that you were me,
Dr. Brad Miller:either you're going to leave, or I'm going to leave. And I meant it.
Dr. Brad Miller:And it happened both ways. What I mean by that there was a
Dr. Brad Miller:couple of situations, including the situation I mentioned earlier,
Dr. Brad Miller:about toxic bill, where they left the church, and things improved
Dr. Brad Miller:dramatically. And there was one occasion where I left the church.
Dr. Brad Miller:And things improved both for me mental physically,
Dr. Brad Miller:emotionally, and even for the for the church, you got to cut it
Dr. Brad Miller:out, you got to put a separation, make the incision, if you're
Dr. Brad Miller:gonna have cancer, take out your body, there comes a moment
Dr. Brad Miller:when that needle or that scalpels got to go in and cut it out.
Dr. Brad Miller:Now, you might see me and Brad, Dr. Brad, that's easier said
Dr. Brad Miller:than done. What if there's a person my own household, what if
Dr. Brad Miller:it's somebody I work with, or a family member, my parent or
Dr. Brad Miller:my spouse, or my daughter or son? Well, did you got to come to put
Dr. Brad Miller:it in a certain framework, you got to put boundaries around
Dr. Brad Miller:that relationship, that there's certain things you will not put up
Dr. Brad Miller:with certain things that you cannot deal with. At times,
Dr. Brad Miller:that means walking away. At times, it may mean confrontation.
Dr. Brad Miller:But it may mean that you just can't deal with certain things,
Dr. Brad Miller:you may need space. Now, for in some cases, it does mean
Dr. Brad Miller:you have to end a relationship. Divorce, for instance, is one
Dr. Brad Miller:of those, or to move away people do that, sometimes it's
Dr. Brad Miller:necessary. You got to put it in a framework, even if you're in
Dr. Brad Miller:a relationship, even a family relationship with someone,
Dr. Brad Miller:you need to put boundaries on it. And you got to put in your
Dr. Brad Miller:own life, what those boundaries are to that are not going
Dr. Brad Miller:to be crossed over. I know of one situation interracial relationship
Dr. Brad Miller:where we're interracial couple, and they had to deal with
Dr. Brad Miller:families on both sides who weren't quite understanding
Dr. Brad Miller:in what certain trigger words were used. Those went across
Dr. Brad Miller:the boundary. And they could not be said. So you know, it was
Dr. Brad Miller:a real problem. You see what I'm saying here. So confront
Dr. Brad Miller:yourself, cut it out is the next one. And the third, the next thing
Dr. Brad Miller:that you can do to have the antidote for for toxicity toxic
Dr. Brad Miller:relationship is to commit yourself is to commit, you're going
Dr. Brad Miller:to commit to your own self worth and your own self growth.
Dr. Brad Miller:That is that your life is worth it. You have to value your life, you
Dr. Brad Miller:have to commit to your own life, that you value your life and
Dr. Brad Miller:you don't want to die. In this toxic relationship. You do not
Dr. Brad Miller:want to be diminished, physically, spiritually or emotionally,
Dr. Brad Miller:you gotta love yourself first. And you really can't grow truly
Dr. Brad Miller:grow until you save yourself, you know, you really can't in the
Dr. Brad Miller:case of A she couldn't really save her daughter from the abuse
Dr. Brad Miller:situation they were both in. And two, she saved herself as
Dr. Brad Miller:well as she had to get a Home Sense of
Dr. Brad Miller:committed to her own self worth.
Dr. Brad Miller:The next part of this, the next see, I would say is to connect
Dr. Brad Miller:with a higher power, connect with a higher power. That is your
Dr. Brad Miller:spiritual life. You need to go to a place you do you can't do this
Dr. Brad Miller:on your own. And I believe there's there's two major sources
Dr. Brad Miller:that you can do to gain strength when you don't have it.
Dr. Brad Miller:One of them is in prayer or meditation or in your inner life, go
Dr. Brad Miller:to a place that you are not only worth it a value, but you need
Dr. Brad Miller:to connect with a source greater than yourself. I certainly
Dr. Brad Miller:advocate advocate a spiritual life, get into reading your
Dr. Brad Miller:Bible, get into your prayer life, get into journaling and other
Dr. Brad Miller:practices that way. If you need help on any of that stuff, reach
Dr. Brad Miller:out to me. I can help you with that. With that. And there's certain
Dr. Brad Miller:things about this that are about Remember, Jesus did this you know
Dr. Brad Miller:he cut certain people out of his life. The Pharisees and the
Dr. Brad Miller:Sadducees are in his life and they wanted to kill him. And he
Dr. Brad Miller:said get away from it. You brood of vipers and he and connected
Dr. Brad Miller:up with his, with his with his Heavenly Father was God he went
Dr. Brad Miller:out to the garden of Gethsemane, pray God, even that, let this
Dr. Brad Miller:this sweat drops of blood came upon him. And he said, let this
Dr. Brad Miller:cup pass from me, because he knew people were after him.
Dr. Brad Miller:Toxic people were after him. But he went to God the Father.
Dr. Brad Miller:So that's the spiritual aspect. You seek your own spiritual guide,
Dr. Brad Miller:but do what if you want to get rid of toxicity in your life, do that.
Dr. Brad Miller:The next thing, the last thing I would just share with you is
Dr. Brad Miller:to commune with cool people. key phrase here cool people,
Dr. Brad Miller:that his friends, build new relationships, and commune with
Dr. Brad Miller:them means build community with them. That might mean an
Dr. Brad Miller:advocacy group, it might mean a professional counselor, it might
Dr. Brad Miller:mean a friend at work, or you were friends with before who can
Dr. Brad Miller:deal with the commonality. Sometimes it's starts with kind of just
Dr. Brad Miller:talking about, you know, Hey, have you had this common
Dr. Brad Miller:experience with those other person, sometimes it's within the
Dr. Brad Miller:family, that you have to build allies, you have to have people
Dr. Brad Miller:who are advocates, your advocates, and you build community
Dr. Brad Miller:with them. And I call it cool people, because there's people you
Dr. Brad Miller:enjoy being with and they enjoy being with you. So you what
Dr. Brad Miller:you do you sustain one another, and you build one another up.
Dr. Brad Miller:I certainly have had that in my own life. And I appreciate that.
Dr. Brad Miller:I have other friends and clergy people in my life colleagues
Dr. Brad Miller:who were supportive of me when I had some of these conflicts
Dr. Brad Miller:with the clergy killers in my life. You need that too. You need
Dr. Brad Miller:that too. We're gonna build we're building a new community
Dr. Brad Miller:here, at beyond adversity, even at large learn more about the
Dr. Brad Miller:community we're building, reach out to me at Dr. Brad miller.com,
Dr. Brad Miller:we'll let you know about the community that we're building here.
Dr. Brad Miller:It can be helpful to you as well get with people. That's the two basic
Dr. Brad Miller:things you can do here, let's go over them again, one more time,
Dr. Brad Miller:is to confront the issue, the sea of confrontation, have your aha moment.
Dr. Brad Miller:The next one is to cut it out to cut out those relationships
Dr. Brad Miller:that are harmful to you separate yourself. The next C
Dr. Brad Miller:is to commit to yourself your own self value and self worth
Dr. Brad Miller:to connect with a higher power. That is your spiritual life.
Dr. Brad Miller:And then to commune with cool people is the next C there.
Dr. Brad Miller:Do those things, it's going to help you to have a antidote, or
Dr. Brad Miller:response to toxic people in your life, and it will make a hole
Dr. Brad Miller:it will make a you know just a lot of difference in your life.
Dr. Brad Miller:It will I promise you, I promise you. You know we're here
Dr. Brad Miller:to serve you. We're here to here to serve you. I love you. And
Dr. Brad Miller:I pray for you. And I want you to know that here Dr.Bradmiller.com.
Dr. Brad Miller:We are building a community to serve people who have had
Dr. Brad Miller:various issues in their life. Various adversities, we call them we
Dr. Brad Miller:call them the five D's of adversity: depression, divorce, disease,
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