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Welcome to Raising Good Humans.

I'm Dr. Elisa Pressman,

and I'm so thrilled to have my friend and colleague Dr.

Sasha Hines.

Sasha and I went to Columbia together.

She is so incredible and her knowledge about positive psychology in particular and delving into the benefits of expansive emotions as she calls them, positive emotions that we know are highly associated with

resilience and thriving and we're also talking about the other side of positive

emotions the toxic positivity that we see a lot of on

social media, for example, that fails to notice the real range of emotions that are so important to our human experience.

And toxic positivity tends to be catchphrases and forced positive We're talking about the pitfalls and traps we can fall into when we're in a well-meaning

way trying to promote optimism and might use phrases that undermine our intentions.

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Positive Psychology is merely describing one little branch of this larger field of psychology and there are many branches on the tree including

you know our field of developmental psychology also you know know, organizational psych, social psych, cognitive psychology, etc.

Abnormal psychology, you know, clinical psychology.

There's like, so you know, so many different fields, you know, and positive

psychologists is merely one of them.

So I think that there, when really it was the point of positive psychology

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