It’s Okay to Feel Sad About Your Dating Life with Whitney Goodman, LMFT
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I’m joined by Whitney Goodman, LMFT, author of Toxic Positivity, and the brains behind the popular account @sitwithwhit. We discuss how our culture doesn’t allow for negativity and has become a competition for who can seem happiest and most positive, how toxic positivity invalidates people struggling with relationship problems, how we can better support our friends and loved ones who are unhappy with their timelines and their singlehood, the overuse of the term “gaslighting,” and how we can learn to accept our negative emotions.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:08.9 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back for another episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:13.8 | We have a really exciting guest on today's episode, Whitney Goodman. |
| 0:18.1 | She is a licensed marriage and family therapist. |
| 0:21.7 | She is the author of the book, Toxic Positivity, and she's known as Sit With Wit, W-H-I-T on Instagram, where she posts a ton of |
| 0:27.8 | really informative and incredible content about, of course, toxic positivity, but also how to |
| 0:34.4 | really sit with your emotions, how to say things in a maybe more sensitive and thoughtful way |
| 0:40.4 | to a friend who's going through something difficult. So really amazing content that hardly |
| 0:45.4 | scratches the surface of what she talks about and what she has to offer. But really excited to |
| 0:50.5 | chat with her today. I'm really excited to just chat in general and to be recording |
| 0:55.1 | this episode. I feel like over the last like week or so, I've been so nonstop and not to say |
| 1:02.6 | that it's been bad. Like I've done such fun things. I've like went to two restaurants I've been |
| 1:08.1 | dying to go to. I went to my cousin's concert. |
| 1:11.2 | I hung out with my cousins and their fiancés and of course Jake and, you know, |
| 1:14.8 | did a double date with one of my best friends, Julia. |
| 1:17.8 | But all that to say like I've been so overwhelmed. |
| 1:23.2 | And just getting to kind of come back and do this episode on the Monday morning, which is when I'm recording this right now, has been really helpful and like reminding me what I'm doing and and why I'm doing it. |
| 1:35.8 | So I just wanted to share that because I know sometimes life can get really, really busy and can be overwhelming and make us feel like things are out of hand or a little out of our |
| 1:45.1 | control or kind of feel like oh my god I'm doing so much like what's the point of all of this and |
| 1:49.7 | you know sometimes it is just a good reminder of like or it's good to remind yourself of why you're |
| 1:56.0 | doing something and how it makes you feel and I feel really bad because over the last few days I've |
| 2:00.3 | hardly posted anything on seeing other people on Instagram over the last few days, I've hardly posted |
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