The Challenge of Toxic Positivity

Toxic positivity is a belief that there are some good things, even in the midst of a broken world. The problem with toxic positivity was that it critiqued the wrong thing and ignored what actually people were experiencing or doing at the wrong time. If we have a friend who's suffering, we don't want to just leave them in a negative place. And then once they feel listened to and heard, then we want to help walk them back out.