hi friends welcome back to another episode of therapy and theology I’m here with my friends Dr Joel munamale proverbs 31 Ministries director of theological research and licensed professional counselor Jim Cress as we were planning our content for this season of the podcast we knew it was time to release an episode we recorded last year on toxic relationships because it fits right in with what we’re discussing in season three so in just a moment you’re going to listen to that episode but before we get into our

conversation I want to remind you about the listener guide we’re making available for each episode of season three we know that these episodes can be a lot to digest so this is a resource my team created to help you absorb what we’ve been talking about and practically apply what you’ve learned whether you’re listening to therapy and theology on the podcast format or watching us on the proverbs 31 Ministries YouTube channel we’ve linked the free listener guide for you in the show notes alright Friends check out this conversation

today we have a really interesting topic toxic people so I’m going to throw out a couple of words and let’s just see if we can um all think of situations where we have been in maybe a relationship or maybe even we’ve demonstrated some of these traits or behaviors ourselves entitled arrogant dramatic manipulative rigid negative controlling so as we listen to these words I think we have to think of two types of really analyzing what we are looking at I just described a bunch of traits that people would say that is a toxic person

but I want to give you a couple of phrases one is spectrum of severity and the other is spectrum of occurrence so if you’re a note-taking person write those two phrases down spectrum of severity and spectrum of occurrence what I mean by spectrum of severity when I read words like that that are obviously not healthy traits for a person to bring to demonstrate at all but also to bring into a relationship there is a spectrum of severity to some of those words now maybe some of these are the most severe version but what if it’s just more like