S4 EP26: Toxic Positivity
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What is toxic positivity? And what can you do with it? Listen in to hear Rachael and Kelsea discuss the concept and their own experiences with it. You’ll hear examples of toxic positivity, why it’s important to feel your negative feelings, and why you – or someone else – might jump to toxic positivity when you shouldn’t.
Topics Discussed in Today’s Episode:
- Negative emotions and the importance of feeling them
- The necessity of fear
- What toxic positivity means
- Examples of toxic positivity
- Working in extremes
- Why people might jump to toxic positivity
- Reminding yourself that people’s behaviors come from their own point of view
- Understanding that you can only control yourself
- Boundary-setting
- How to stop feeling shame
- Improving your interactions with others
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Shame is a maladaptive. Like it just, it doesn't have as many qualities where you can move with a |
| 0:09.5 | situation and continue like living your best life and like reacting to a situation appropriately |
| 0:16.1 | and continuing to adapt to it. So I think that the, when it comes down to the crux of toxic positivity, |
| 0:24.1 | and if that is leading you to feelings of shame, |
| 0:27.7 | then that's where it has become really toxic for you. |
| 0:34.5 | The big question is this. |
| 0:42.3 | In a world of fake Instagram models and bad diets, how do real people achieve their fitness goals? |
| 0:46.3 | We are an army of hardworking women, |
| 0:50.3 | changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:53.3 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers. changing their lives through fitness and health. |
| 0:59.7 | Wherever you are at on your journey, we have the answers to how to make working out and eating well a part of your life. |
| 1:03.4 | Join us in changing the dialogue for women everywhere. |
| 1:07.6 | Welcome to the Thick Thighs Save Lives podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | Hi everyone and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:16.7 | I'm Rachel. Did you notice that our recording software? Oh, look it. I can see you on video. |
| 1:25.9 | A recording software just got a new feature, which is that it turns on the video for your recording, too. |
| 1:32.1 | With no warning. |
| 1:34.5 | That's the worst. |
| 1:35.4 | There's no warning at all. |
| 1:36.7 | That's like when you're like, oh, my kid's doing something super cute and you open up Snapchat and it's on selfie mode. |
| 1:44.0 | You're like, oh God, that. |
| 1:46.6 | Not a cute child life. |
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