Hello Everyone & Welcome Back to the RealPositiveGirl Podcast!
Thank you so much for joining me again!
Happy Wednesday!
This week's theme for the podcast is: Important Reminders
This week I want to give you thoughts that you should be reminding yourself of on the regular for being on that journey to become your best self & live your life with as much ease as you can get.
These reminders will also be helpful during this super busy week of the year, leading us up to Christmas. This holiday can be stressful enough as it is, so there is no need to add in any extra introspective thoughts, but don't count next week out! These important reminders will also push you to take of yourself first more often than not.
Here are some notes from today's episode:
- You don’t need to feel bad about how you are feeling & coping with whatever is going on in your life. Everyone has periods of their lives where things are hard & emotions will cling & drag you down.
- I believe that part of the reason we all feel like not being ok is a bad thing is because there is societal pressure to keep it to ourselves, not drag anyone else down with us & don’t expose your emotions for fear of burdening someone else.
- There is also the aspect of perfectionism & people pleasing that can cause people to pretend like everything is ok.
- I think this is one of the most dangerous things to do because if you are dealing with really heavy things & don’t reach out for help & no one else knows, you could fall into a deep depression & convince yourself to do regrettable things.
- There is an article on Psychology Today by Hannah Rose that talks about how we need to show up for every single emotion, no matter how painful, or we are destined to continually manifest those experiences in our lives until we deal with it. I believe this is absolutely true.
- It’s also part of the reason we drag around our emotional baggage from relationship to relationship to season of life. We don’t take the time to properly deal with it.
- I think we need to normalize that it’s ok to struggle & be unhappy & be sad & not smile.
- Clinical therapist Jaime Zuckerman talks about the idea of “toxic positivity” & how that is related to the inability of normalizing feeling our true feelings.
- It’s the idea that despite what we are going through, we should always try to force positive thoughts & vibes & have a positive mindset. By doing this, we end up invalidating our true feelings, making our emotional state worse because we are allowing the pain & hurt to get even deeper & validating that it isn’t ok to not be ok, which isn’t true.
- I also want to mention that on the flip side, if someone you know is dealing with something tough, you shouldn’t just tell them it’s going to be ok. Instead or in addition to that, you should let them know it’s ok for them to feel the way they are feeling.
- We all have thoughts & emotions & there is nothing wrong with that. It’s more about how we act on those thoughts & feelings.
- Don’t be the person that just tells someone to “buck up” or “just get over it” because that doesn’t help anyone work through their pain & discomfort.
Please share this podcast with anyone that may need this encouragement!
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