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You Don’t Have to Ingest the Poison

Tending to your nervous system in toxic spaces—and reclaiming your right to opt out.


When you’re steeped in stressful environments—workplaces, family systems, or societal expectations—it can feel like your only option is to tolerate, endure, or internalize. But what if you didn’t have to?


In this episode of It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way, Renae and Laura return for a powerful conversation about emotional immunity, energetic boundaries, and reclaiming your inner wisdom in spaces that drain or distort.


In this episode, we explore:

  • How to recognize the “poison” you’ve been asked to ingest
  • Ways our bodies signal when something is misaligned
  • Boundaries that begin on the inside
  • The grief of waking up—and the courage it takes to not comply
  • How nervous system care and self-trust can offer a new way forward


You are allowed to know something is wrong, even if no one else agrees.