My former ballet teacher (1919-2012) used to eat the broth according to his instructions whenever she was sick, almost sick, or feeling "toxic" for any reason, and I make it now and then just in case it works.
With varying levels of career success, it's especially common for partners to start feeling toxic emotions toward each other.
Then there was Copenhagen, where the failure to aggressively act on climate change left McKibben feeling "some toxic combination of sad and angry".
If you find that you are feeling bitchy, toxic, or competitive toward the women who are supposed to be your closest friends, look at why and figure out how to fix it and/or find someone who can help you fix it.
I mean, on one level, that speech was just what it looked like: Walt venting every toxic feeling he'd ever had about his wife.
In the day, she is a glasses-wearing hockey mom - but at night, she whips off those glasses and writhes around a pole in a ripped babydoll dress and sings about feeling a bit toxic.
It burned on the way down, and I felt comforted by that old feeling of something toxic making its way through my system, heating up and tingling on its way down.
If this toxic feeling becomes an obsession getting outside help is mandatory.
But analysts here say the British public's toxic feelings toward Bush and the Iraq war -- and Blair's unyielding support for both -- mean that Prime Minister Brown will have to maintain a certain distance from the White House, at least until next year's presidential election.
Pity, for example, the woman who wrote to the mind/body medical guru Deepak Chopra: "Even though I follow the treatments, have come a long way in unburdening myself of toxic feelings, have forgiven everyone, changed my lifestyle to include meditation, prayer, proper diet, exercise and supplements, the cancer keeps coming back.
Try journaling; work with a therapist; join a 12-step program -- move beyond those toxic feelings.
