Toxic(ish)

Some people destroy your life.Some people teach you how to destroy your own.Toxic(ish) is not a book about blaming your parents, your ex, your situationship, your childhood, or the person who ghosted you after saying they “weren’t ready for anything serious.”This is about the uncomfortable moment you realize that maybe you were not just hurt…Maybe you were harmful too.Raw, sharp, darkly funny, and painfully honest, Toxic(ish) pulls apart the behaviors, coping mechanisms, survival habits, emotional contradictions, and communication patterns we normalize every day. The ones that ruin relationships, sabotage self-worth, push people away, and leave us wondering why the same lessons keep showing up wearing different faces.This book is not interested in your perfection.It is interested in awareness.Through personal stories, uncomfortable truths, family dynamics, love, grief, boundaries, accountability, self-abandonment, and the messy reality of becoming better, Diva Bakhshi writes like the brutally honest friend who says what everyone else is too scared to admit.Healing is not always soft...Sometimes it means grieving who you use to be while trying not to become that person again.If you have ever stayed too long, loved people harder than you loved yourself, self-sabotaged something good, struggled with boundaries, communication, validation, or forgiveness, or wondered, “Am I the problem too?”…then this book is a love letter to you. Read more