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

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Toxic Positivity

Whitney Goodman: Toxic positivity is the unrelenting pressure to be happy and positive all the time no matter what the circumstances. She says we do it to ourselves to other people, like that meme of the dog with the house on fire and it's like everything's fine. Her parents' generation wasn't big into feelings so she didn't have a word for it until later in her life when she was older. So I think radical acceptance is really a great way of looking at what the opposite is right? And trying to make room for the full experience rather than just putting a blanket on it.

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