Today we cover a topic we’ve been wanting to do forever: toxic positivity! Through listener comments and personal stories, we discuss the following:
- Not being allowed to be unhappy
- Why we can tend to be overly positive when supporting someone who is struggling
- Stonewalling ourselves to fit in with positivity culture
- External vs internal toxic positivity
- Not being able to trust people who are positive all the time
- Is it possible to choose our attitudes?
- Good ol’ minimizing
- Letting people see the natural state you live in
- Being grateful while suffering
- Is stark realism the response to toxic positivity?
- Toxic positivity as a response to starting recovery
- What happens when you stifle wounds in positivity instead of addressing them
- Motivational quotes in design
Other tangents include:
- Our voting stories
- Lauren making contraband cold brew in treatment and Christina’s stance on Starbucks as a former employee
- Weed as anxiety relief
- Contemplations on straight edge and recovery as a way of life vs a state of being
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