Toxic Positivity

Morning Mantra: "Never tell a person to be strong when they come to you to be weak."

I know I talk a lot on here about being positive.  But there is a phenomenon called toxic positivity that we should all be aware of.

Toxic positivity is a process which results in denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.

Toxic positivity is a forced, false positivity. So when you or someone share something difficult, it insists that you turn it into something positive.  Which ultimately should be our goal, except we need to feel our emotions, process the experience, and find our way to a better place authentically.

If someone comes to you in their weakest state, let’s say from grief, and you encourage them to be strong instead of allowing them to experience the grief, what you’re basically saying to them is your comfort is more important than their reality.

There’s a difference between being truly happy and pretending everything‘s fine when it’s not. Let’s not encourage ourselves or others to feel like it’s “wrong” for feeling anything but OK.  Let's be a safe space for real feelings.

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