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Dr. Susan David: Build Emotional Agility, Avoid Burnout, & The Dangers of Toxic Positivity
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The Power of Toxic Positivity
When I was a five year old, I would lie between my parents' beds because I was so scared that if I went to bed and I woke up the next morning, they would be dead. My father did something so powerful in the way that he comforted me through those long dark nights. He didn't try to buffer me with forced, false positivity. And this became a profound marker of what then threaded my career. When we engage in false,false positivity, false, falsePositive looks wonderful, but it is an avoidance coping strategy. It's denial wrapped up in rainbows and sparkles, but it's denial. So a crucial part of my work has been
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