Instagrams favorite therapist SitWithWhit discusses her new book Toxic Positivity and how it influences our mental health
- How do we define toxic positivity?
- Where did we develop this mindset from an evolutionary perspective?
- Why it’s difficult for us to sit with challenging emotions within our relationships?
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- What areas do we see this most in?
- How the illusion of control plays a role in our need to be positive?
- How are manifestations and affirmations different from toxic positivity?
- What is Groupthink?
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- How does it stifle creativity and intimacy?
- How we perfect the art of pretending and how this harms us?
- The numbing behaviors we use to deny our feelings?
- How do we align our affirmations with our values?
- Why our “negative” emotions are so important to feel and how to make use of these experiences?
- Why the pressure to feel gratitude can create shame and be unproductive?
- What is the difference between emotions and feelings?
- How does labeling our emotions help us use our emotions in a more adaptive manner?
- How does a false sense of vulnerability actually hurt us?
- The other end of the spectrum: a victim state of mind?
- What is radical acceptance and strategies/tools to use to implement this frame of mind?
- How the pursuit of happiness can get in the way of our experience of joy?
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- Happiness Driven vs. Value Driven
- What are positive fantasies and how do they help us through difficult times?
- How toxic positivity plays a role in our perception of health?
- What is helpful positivity vs toxic positivity?
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