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Toxic Positivity and the Empath
Enlightened Empaths
Samantha Fey and Denise Correll
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 November 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Toxic Positivity is forcing yourself – or others – to feel happy even when you’re not. It can present when someone pushes inauthentic happiness on you with undue optimism or cheeriness that may not feel supportive for what you are going through. This can lead to feeling numb, tuned out, or even wanting to turn off needed emotions.
The other form of toxic positivity can be self inflicted. You may tell yourself to be strong, to get through a situation, or that it isn’t a big deal because in reality it’s easier than being inundated with overwhelmingly raw or heavy emotions.
Psychologygroup.com identified these signs of Personal Toxic Positivity:
- Hiding/Masking your true feelings
- Trying to “just get on with it” by stuffing/dismissing an emotion(s)
- Feeling guilty for feeling what you feel
- Minimizing other people’s experiences with “feel good” quotes or statements
- Trying to give someone perspective (e.g., “it could be worse”) instead of validating their
emotional experience - Shaming or chastising others for expressing frustration or anything other than positivity
- Brushing off things that are bothering you with a “It is what it is”.
Please join us for this episode as we explore toxic positivity, how it impacts us as empaths and things we can try to do to avoid this emotional trap!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to enlightened Empaths, your community for the spiritually awakened. |
| 0:05.5 | We hope you guys are doing well and having a great start to your week. |
| 0:09.5 | On this show's episode, we're going to talk about something called toxic positivity. Now this was a |
| 0:15.3 | phrase I had not heard before. I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and a friend had |
| 0:20.6 | shared an article on this. |
| 0:22.6 | Have you heard of this before I sent it to you, Denise? |
| 0:25.6 | I hadn't. |
| 0:26.7 | I hadn't heard of it before. |
| 0:28.9 | Oh, good. |
| 0:29.3 | So I'm not the only one. |
| 0:30.2 | So I don't know if it's new to us or if it's just a newer term, but I read this article and I thought, |
| 0:36.0 | oh my gosh, I know these people, I know what this is. Toxic positivity is forcing yourself or others to feel happy even when you're not. |
| 0:45.0 | And I think we know what it's like to be on the receiving end of that where someone's trying to cheer you up when |
| 0:51.0 | really you don't want to be cheered up in that moment. You know, you just want someone to hold |
| 0:55.0 | space with you. It can feel really isolating and lonely. And so a lot of these studies are showing that toxic positivity is really negative, not only for the recipient, but also for the person who's doling out the cheer. |
| 1:11.0 | There are two types of toxic positivity. the just cheer up, put on a brave face, everything happens for a reason. |
| 1:24.4 | And the other type is when you put that toxic positivity on yourself |
| 1:30.3 | where you are forcing yourself to feel better. |
| 1:33.0 | All of this toxic positivity is really bad for you. |
| 1:37.0 | It's an inauthentic form of happiness |
| 1:39.0 | that causes you to numb out, tune off, and turn off needed emotions and it can alienate you from others |
| 1:47.0 | because you know we can all sense when someone is being false. If you're doing if you're performing toxic positivity on yourself it results in |
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