Today is the 6-year anniversary of my father’s death. What does this have to do with toxic relationships, you might ask? For me, my early childhood relationship with my father had a lot to do with my toxic relationships as an adult, but I didn’t know that until I was brave enough to face my shadow and Inner Child with the hopes it would help me move on from a toxic relationship. For more resources visit www.thrivingwithrachel.com.

I look around at the world around me, and I see people living their lives in all sorts of relationships. Some are in seemingly happy relationships, while others are in obviously unhappy relationships. And I have to ask myself, why is this? Why do some people get so lucky as to find the right mate, while others are duped and disillusioned by the torment of abuse, whether it is mental, verbal, and emotional, or even physical? In this episode we will look at the reasons for this and how it’s not just a “luck of the draw”, and what we can do to transform our relationship “luck”.