Everyone is a target of bullying at some point. When the bully succeeds, the target is victimized. The more that happens, the easier it is to take on a victim identity.

Seeing yourself as a victim is bully food. Break out of victim behaviors and the bully behaviors that follow.

This episode is about social mistakes that could leave you open to bullying

Too IMPRESSIVE comes off as I’m better than you, and too INDEPENDENT comes off as I don’t need you.

Ironically, we do both to impress people because we believe we need them, which is coping by over compensating. This all comes off as overly dependent and not impressive at all.

Bragging…we try to get people to like us by making sure they know all the greatest things about us. We think they’ll like us better, but it’s l ...