The Mental Health Benefit Of Connecting With Individual People Instead Of Merely Identifying With Groups | Whitney Goodman Part 2

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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I’m back for Part 2 with Whitney Goodman, author of Toxic Positivity, to walk through her personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life fulfillment so we can hear what has driven and does drive her to guide us in working through our emotions instead of just slapping a happy face on things, and what she does to design a life that fulfills her. Along the discussion I press in on some of the areas and her perspective as a full time therapist and what she is seeing in the culture. We walk through her spiritual values and discuss what she calls an interfaith marriage with her husband and how she feels much of America’s toxic positivity was born in the Christian church she was raised in. In mental health Whitney talks about the toll it’s taking on us all as we gravitate toward strong identification with certain groups and are more disconnected from individuals in our culture and her own striving for awareness as to how her beliefs are affecting her. She decompresses by reading fiction and we discovered we’re both reading some of Colleen Hoover’s books. As for achievements, her leading goal right now with a relatively young marriage and first child is having a strong marriage and kids who like her. Her new book, bestselling book again is TOXIC POSITIVITY: KEEPING IT REAL IN A WORLD OBSESSED WITH BEING HAPPY, and you can find her and over half a million followers on instagram at sitwithwhit. Self-Help(ful) is presented by Ziglar, the most trusted brand in personal and business development impacting over 250 million people worldwide. Visit Ziglar.com to see how they can inspire your true performance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a Glassbox Media Podcast.
0:30.0	In this episode, I'm back for part two with Whitney Goodman, author of Toxic Positivity,
0:39.6	and we're walking through her personal values, motives, and habits in the key areas of life
0:45.2	fulfillment. So we can hear what's driven and does drive her to guide us in working through our
0:50.8	emotions instead of just slapping a happy face on things. And of course what she does to design a
0:55.6	life that fulfills her. And along the discussion I press in on some of the areas and her perspective
1:02.3	as a full-time therapist and what she's seen in the culture. So we walk through her spiritual values
1:08.0	and discuss what she calls an interfaith marriage with her husband of five years and how she feels
1:13.2	much of America's toxic positivity was actually born in the Christian church that she was raised in.
1:18.3	Me too. In mental health, Whitney talks about the toll it's taking on all of us as we gravitate
1:24.4	towards strong identification with certain groups but are more disconnected from individuals
1:29.7	in our culture and her own striving for awareness as to how her beliefs are affecting her.
1:35.4	She talks about decompressing by reading fiction. We discover that we're both reading
1:39.5	some of Colleen Hoover's books right now. And as for achievements, her leading goal right now
1:44.5	with a relatively young marriage and first child is having a strong marriage and kids who actually
1:49.2	like her. Her new book again bestselling book is toxic positivity keeping it real and a world
1:56.0	obsessed with being happy. So we talked about in part one a couple days ago and you can find her
2:01.4	in over half a million followers on Instagram and sit with wit. Hey, if you find value from this
2:08.3	podcast, be great. If you left a review, let others know what you think. Best you can do is keep
2:14.0	the conversation going. Talk about what you hear in this episode with someone else. You can always
2:18.8	find me, connect with me on website or social media at KevinMiller.co. Next up, Whitney Goodman's
2:25.8	Values, Motives and Habits. Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square
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