Always think positive
About this episode
Julia and Angela discuss the implications of forced positivity on emotional health and relationships.
Today Julia and Angela deconstruct “Always think/be positive” and share how positivity can be helpful, but forcing positivity can invalidate human emotions and prevents honest relationships, personal growth, and can build a sense of frustration or wrong doing. Healthy emotional life requires accepting all emotions. They talk about: 1. Constant positivity is psychologically unrealistic 2. The Pressure to stay always positive invalidates other emotions 3. Emotions as data 4. Suppressing emotions prevents awareness of problems that need change. 5. Toxic positivity blocks authentic relationships. Here are the highlights for this episode: (02:22) Constant positivity is physically impossible (03:02) Pressure to stay positive at all costs invalidates other emotions (04:34) Emotions are data. (05:09) Children need to express and live with their emotions safely. (05:59) Learning how to express emotions and not be frighten of them. (07:26) Other emotions may allow you to see things thart need changing. (08:29) Staying positive all the time makes you avoid real issues that might need adressing. (10:06) We can not hide behind constant positivity just to avoid, conflict, difficult…
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