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What's Negative About Positivity?

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Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.713.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Good vibes only? Not on this podcast. And not when psychologist Susan David is in the room (figuratively speaking, of course, because pandemic). For years, Susan has been leading the conversation about the value of *all our feelings* and how no emotion is bad or good. This episode is your antidote to toxic positivity. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.1

Hello, you. Listening to your favorite podcast again. A little predictable of you, don't you

0:36.4

think? My latest heartbreak has been a catalyst. It has brought me to London. I spend my days

0:40.9

as a professor and my nights with friends. It's a generous way to describe them, but I have

0:44.9

to stay close. There's a killer out there picking them off all while trying to frame

0:50.0

me. I laugh at the irony if it weren't so serious. Someone is watching me. I can feel it.

0:55.6

Is it you? You now streaming only on Netflix.

1:02.9

I'm Nora McNerney and this is Terrible Thanks for asking.

1:11.6

Some podcasts have a tagline that they repeat at the top of their show over and over. Something

1:16.6

like, for ever 35, they say we're not experts. We're just two friends who like to talk about

1:22.1

serums on many episodes. And here we are. Who weekly? The podcast where you'll learn

1:26.7

everything you need to know about the celebrities you don't. This American life. Well, I can't

1:30.2

remember what they say, but you know what I mean? Like, some podcasts just have a specific

1:35.4

tagline for their show and we do not because when I started, it just felt like a big commitment

1:40.3

to tie it up with one specific sentence. And then every time I tried to do that, it kept

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