Hey, what's up everybody? Welcome to Trust and Believe. I'm your host, Shanti, and today's guest, Arnel Cavario, is going to be talking about toxic positivity. He has a doctorate and occupational therapy from USC. And he is going to give you tips on how to be positive and communicating with other people and communicating with yourself.

You all need to hear this because we've all been guilty of toxic positivity.

So get ready to trust and believe on how to communicate in a better way.

Somebody says, oh yeah.

Well, no, no.

What's up?

He's better than Oprah.

Come on, y'all.

This is Sean T, and it's time to trust and believe.

First and foremost, how are you doing today?

I'm doing good, Sean.

First of all, it's good to see your face.

Just so many exciting things happening right now.

The first and foremost being your birthday just passed.

So, yeah, it's always good to be in your good energy.

And yeah, I just love seeing you. All this good. Awesome. So, all right. So one of the reasons why I'm so excited to have you on the podcast is there are a lot of people out there who are very nice.

Like, there are people out there who are very nice, but you are

nice from the core. I don't think there's a like a mean bone in your body. Maybe there is, but,

and I've always just been, you know, enamored by the way you treat people, by the way you speak to

people. And it just comes across so positive and like I know not everyone's perfect but

even just your social media is just so giving and then you know we had a conversation a few weeks ago

just about positivity and I actually saw you talk about toxic positivity and it's been on my mind a lot lately. And it's been, it's been really kind of stressing me out because there are people that I see that I know. And this may sound a little judgmental, but the way that they talk to people just seems a little more condescending than helpful. And then I hear

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