How to Survive a Toxic Workplace
Small Shifts, Big Vibrations
Leaving a toxic job feels, at first, like stepping off a ride that spun too fast. You are free, but your body and mind are still dizzy. We imagine survival as a single, heroic act, a resignation letter slid across a desk, a triumphant new role.
But neuroscience tells a subtler story. Change rarely arrives in seismic waves. It begins with quiet, repeated habits that rewire the brain, settle the body and, if you follow Esther Hicks, shift the energetic vibrations we send into the universe.
Hicks speaks of “vibration,” a frequency carried by emotion. Gratitude higher than fear, joy lighter than despair. Strip away the metaphysics and you find a striking parallel in cognitive neuroscience. Emotions are not airy abstractions, they are neurochemical signals cascading through the nervous system, shaping how we think, act and perceive. Neuroscientists call this…
