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Hello, dear listener and welcome once again to owning it the Anxiety podcast with me, Caroline

Foreign. I feel like a broken record with my intros at this stage. I know I just keep saying

the same thing with the same intonation. So I'm going to change it up a little bit here.

And maybe I should speed my voice up or slow it down. I don't know. We'll see when it comes to

editing what I feel like doing. But I hope that you're still enjoying this series. I'm going to take

a little break from the guests for a moment and just do a solo episode. Something I've really

wanted to talk about for ages is toxic positivity. And I guess I felt

like I had enough to say in it that me, myself and I could just have a little podcast by

ourselves. However, I had done an article on this for a magazine here in Ireland and gotten some quotes from

Dr. Caroline Leif, who I had on the podcast recently. She's a cognitive neuroscience, neuroscientist,

I should say, and an author of a book called Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess. And I did get some

quotes from her, her being the expert who could, I suppose, underpin what I already

figured I knew or had experienced or thought about toxic positivity. And so I will share

some of her insights here as well. And yeah, I suppose it's, it's something that sounds like a bit

of a mediupy, maybe millennial,

oh, like here's just another

buzzword, but actually it's been around

for such a long time. And

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