When I started my inner work, it was because I had endured a toxic relationship, and I could not understand why I had to experience this particular type of relationship. I am highly intelligent, kind, and funny, with a great personality, and my first instinct was that this was some kind of mistake. I thought I had simply taken a wrong turn in life, that instead of going right, I went left. It seemed to make sense because the person I was involved with had deceived me from the very begi...