131. Using Emotions To Navigate (Toxic) Relationships

Learn how to use emotions to detect toxic signals in a relationship, symptoms of unhealthy relationships, and noticing when something is off. As well as reducing the risk a relationship becomes toxic. Dr Paul Ekman recently passed away and his work on emotions was ground breaking. We can use emotions to decode things happening around us that our rational brains don't see. But with emotions, we can learn the signals. In this episode, I run through the 7 universal emotions, how to use them to decode toxic situations, and why none of them are "negative", even though 5 are unpleasant.

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131. Using Emotions To Navigate (Toxic) Relationships is an episode from Decoding Narcissists, Manipulation & Toxic Ideas, with Frederik Ribersson by Frederik Ribersson.

This episode is 00:42:22 long.

This episode was published on Nov 22, 2025.

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