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Podcast: Teach Me How To Adult
Episode: Teach Me How To Ditch Toxic Positivity and Feel for Real, with Psychotherapist Whitney Goodman
Description: Unpopular opinion: Itâs NOT always healthy to find the silver lining in everything. Some things just suck, and we donât always need to look on the bright side, at the expense of *actually* processing hard feelings. Our culture is obsessed with a âgood vibes only,â and âeverything happens for a reasonâ state of mind that makes us feel like weâre failing if weâre not happy 100% of the time. Trying to see the positive isnât always positive, sometimes shit happens that doesnât make us stronger, and weâre ready to break up with toxic positivity s...