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What is Toxic Positivity and Why It's Unhelpful (Ft. Whitney Goodman)

SHE with Jordan Lee Dooley

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The Problems With Negative Emotions

When we try to suppress any of our quote unquote negative feelings with positivity, we end up making ourselves feel a lot worse. suppressing any emotions causes them to intensify and makes us feel them even stronger down the road. We're also inhibiting connection. I think that the inhibiting connection is so huge. It can feel like you're invalidating someone's pain or challenge or struggle or whatever they may be trying to open up about. And it really kind of can discourage you from going back to that person for listening or support or anything because you're like, Well, they're not going to understand anyway, right? Yeah, that's really powerful.

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