How to Cope With Negative People and Environments You Can’t Leave
From Rise with Roxie by Bauer Media
March 5, 2026 · 18 min · Season 3
About this episode
Roxie discusses coping strategies for dealing with negative people and environments that are hard to escape.
Feel drained by certain people in your life? Struggling to stay positive in environments you can’t simply walk away from? In this bonus episode of RISE, Roxie answers a listener question about how to cope with negative people and emotionally draining environments when cutting them off is not realistic. Whether it is a colleague, a family member, or someone you live with, constant negativity can quietly affect your nervous system and leave you feeling tense, defensive, or emotionally exhausted. Roxie explores the psychology behind emotional contagion and explains why other people’s moods can influence how you feel, even when you are normally positive or self aware. She shares practical ways to protect your energy while staying kind, including setting internal boundaries, reducing emotional access, shifting from reacting to observing, and creating simple rituals that help reset your nervous system after difficult interactions. This episode is about learning how to stay grounded around negativity without becoming hardened by it. Because protecting your peace is not about changing other people. It is about changing how much access they have to your energy. Contact us at…
People in this episode
Host: Roxie
Topics covered
- negative people
- emotional environments
- energy protection
- psychology
- emotional contagion
- boundaries
Keywords
- negative people
- emotional contagion
- energy protection
- boundaries
- mental health
- stress management
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Bauer Media
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