S2 Ep 78: The Antidote to Toxic Positivity with Whitney Goodman (@sitwithwhit)
Raising Good Humans
Dear Media, Aliza Pressman
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes, it's better to just listen and let your kid vent. Join me in conversation with psychotherapist Whitney Goodman, who you may know from the terrific Instagram page @sitwithwhit. She is the author of Toxic Positivity: Keeping It Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy. We discuss what toxic positivity is, how to listen and when to give advice, and we trade stories of some times we wish we could have acted differently.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.5 | Welcome to Raising Good Humans. I'm Dr. Lisa Pressman and today we're talking about |
| 0:13.6 | toxic positivity and the antidote to toxic positivity with radically honest psychotherapist |
| 0:23.3 | Whitney Goodman. She has a really cool Instagram account sit with WIT and she wrote a book |
| 0:29.8 | called toxic positivity keeping it real in a world obsessed with being happy and we're talking |
| 0:37.1 | about how to integrate being supportive, having hope and gratitude and a sense of possibility |
| 0:47.6 | without diminishing the experience of your child or other people in your life by inadvertently |
| 0:54.7 | using quote unquote toxic positivity. So we're talking about this with regard to |
| 1:01.6 | young children all the way through adolescence and our experience even with our partners, |
| 1:08.6 | other parents and our parents. If you enjoy this episode, please don't hesitate to subscribe, |
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| 1:37.5 | Humans podcast. So I want to start off by just defining and distinguishing between toxic positivity |
| 1:47.1 | and optimism, which are totally different things but seem to be getting conflated. |
| 1:52.1 | Yeah. So toxic positivity is really like this unrelenting pressure to be happy and positive no matter |
| 1:59.3 | what the situation. And I like to think of it as we're offering someone a really simple solution |
| 2:05.9 | for a complicated problem that we know nothing about. Optimism on the other hand is really just |
| 2:13.1 | having like an outlook towards life that things can change and get better and improve. And I think |
| 2:19.2 | when we look at the opposite of toxic positivity, we're really talking about how can we acknowledge |
| 2:24.4 | reality and what's actually happening and hold space for that hope and optimism at the same time. |
| 2:32.1 | So what are some examples of things that parents and we don't only have to talk about parents, |
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