What Is Toxic Positivity? Ft. Whitney Goodman, Psychotherapist & Author
The Bossticks
Dear Media
4.4 • 15K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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#430: On today's episode we are joined by Whitney Goodman. Whitney is a psychotherapist and author of the new book "Toxic Positivity". Today Whitney joins the show to discuss the concept of toxic positivity and how it can potentially impact our lives in the wrong way. We also discuss how to recognize toxic positivity and what to do when it happens in our own lives.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:04.1 | She's a lifestyle blogger extraordinaire. |
| 0:08.0 | And he's a serial entrepreneur, a very smart cookie. |
| 0:11.5 | And now Lauren Evertson, Michael Bostick, |
| 0:13.9 | are bringing you along for the ride. |
| 0:15.7 | Get ready for some major realness. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to the skinny confidential, him and her. |
| 0:24.8 | I noticed it on social media and then I started really like paying attention to it in sessions. |
| 0:29.0 | And I noticed that a lot of my patients were saying like, |
| 0:31.6 | I know I shouldn't complain, but I should be grateful, but. |
| 0:34.9 | And I was like, God, they're saying this in therapy, |
| 0:38.2 | the one place where you shouldn't really be able to complain, |
| 0:41.4 | there must be such a pressure to not seem negative. |
| 0:46.8 | And there's always like qualifiers about feeling things. |
| 0:50.9 | Welcome back to the skinny confidential, him and her show. |
| 0:53.3 | That clip was from our guest at the show today, Whitney Goodman. |
| 0:56.7 | Whitney is a psychotherapist and most recently, |
| 0:59.2 | the author of the book, toxic positivity, |
| 1:01.5 | keeping it real and a world obsessed with being happy. |
| 1:04.4 | And this was an interesting conversation. |
| 1:05.9 | I got to be honest, when we first were getting pitched |
| 1:09.8 | to this concept of having Whitney on to discuss toxic positivity, |
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