Summary:

In today's episode of Better Than Gossip, Amy and Lisa chat with Whitney Goodman, the author of Toxic Positivity and owner of The Collaborative Counseling Center, a private therapy practice based in Miami. You can find Whitney on her widely popular Instagram page @sitwithwhit, where she goes by the title "radically honest psychotherapist."

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What You'll Learn on this Show:

• Whitney's unique and holistic definition of toxic positivity. 
• The origin of the culture of toxic positivity in the United States.
• A better approach than toxic positivity when interacting with someone going through a tough situation.
• How to recognize toxic positivity in the important relationships in our lives.
• The concept of predatory wellness and how it's negatively affecting women in our society.
• What to do when you are feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, stuck or any other emotion that's often frowned upon. 
• Some of the topics Whitney has been broadly addressing on her Instagram page.
• And so much more…

Quotes:

"9 out of 10 times, we actually know how to fix it or what we really need to do. We just want to talk, vent, be heard and feel validated." — Whitney Goodman.

"You can be an optimistic person and not engage in toxic positivity." — Whitney Goodman.

"As parents, it's so easy to become hyper focussed on our kids' happiness and diminish the value of other feelings." — Whitney Goodman.

"People who feel like they have to silence their emotions feel infinitely worse than the people who get to talk about them." — Whitney Goodman.

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