Opt-Out Of Toxic Positivity

Black Girl Burnout

Kelley Bonner

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 764 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Welcome to the Black Girl Burn Out podcast with Kelley. Today we're going to talk all about what toxic positivity is and effective strategies that will help you to opt-out of that state of being. I, in full disclosure, am kind of obsessed with Instagram, it's my social media of choice. Over the last six months, I have seen an increase in posts about toxic positivity on Instagram. During the pandemic many have lost family members and struggled with high levels of anxiety and depression due to prolonged periods of isolation. In my research, I found that toxic positivity is directly linked to struggle, one of the cornerstones of this podcast. If you are at that stage in life where you are available take action steps towards positive change, this episode is for you. Here is my question, are you ready to opt into healthy optimism? Let’s talk about it. Our Sponsors: * Check out Super.com and use my code super.com/credit for a great deal: https://super.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast. Kelly here.
0:12.7	And today we're going to talk all about opting out of toxic positivity.
0:19.4	I, in full disclosure, am kind of obsessed with Instagram. It's my social media
0:24.2	of choice. And I have seen over the last couple months, maybe six months or so, all of these
0:34.4	posts about toxic positivity.
0:41.3	And I think the pandemic probably brought a lot of this about because people were talking about all, you know, how much they've grown during the pandemic,
0:47.7	how wonderful they are.
0:49.9	They picked up 15 different skills and now could, you know, do backflips because they have the
0:56.6	time sitting at home to themselves. They wrote the next great American novel or the next
1:03.2	multi-platinum album during pandemic. And for the rest of us, we were kind of looking at these
1:10.8	folks like, oh, okay.
1:13.3	There are many of us who've lost family members who have had to struggle with high levels of anxiety and depression from being isolated.
1:23.7	The pandemic has been a genuinely rough time.
1:27.2	And the messaging that was coming out about, you know, push through, be your best self, be amazing, take on a new project.
1:34.2	These are the opportunities of the pandemic.
1:37.0	That flooding of messaging caused what I believe to be a backlash of people really reminding folks that that kind of energy
1:47.4	and messaging can be toxic.
1:51.0	There are people who are going to excel during difficult times and have excelled during the
1:55.9	pandemic.
1:56.8	If you watch the news, there are some people who just made a bunch of money during the pandemic
2:01.4	at the expense of others. So people have done okay. But for many people, the last couple years,
2:08.8	have been hard to process. And so it has spawned this phrase, toxic positivity. However, outside of the pandemic, I really didn't understand or see
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