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What Is Toxic Positivity? Ft. Whitney Goodman, Psychotherapist & Author

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Toxic Positivity in Relationships

Toxic positivity shows up a lot when one partner is complaining about something or just wants to the biggest thing I see as a couple therapists is like you might go to your spouse and say oh my god I had the worst day at work today it's sucked. They're making a bid for attention in that moment right so instead I want everyone to focus on asking questions try to like get to the root of it what was difficult for you? Then if they explicitly say can you give me advice then you can step in and say change your mindset go meditateYou have a huge following on social media we've obviously seen that with instagram and everyone like it goes crazy whenever you post they like

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