This week author and psychotherapist Whitney Goodman joins the show to talk about toxic positivity. Find out if your attempts to be positive actually cause harm and how to stop saying "everything happens for a reason" and "at least you still have your health"!
Learn more:
- Read the book: Toxic Positivity: Keeping it Real in a World Obsessed with Being Happy
- Hang with Whitney Goodman on Instagram: @sitwithwhit
Share a healthy degree of positivity:
- Instagram: @talkpsychtomepodcast
- Twitter: @talkpsych2me
- Email: tp2mpodcast@gmail.com
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Co-hosted by Brian Luna and Tania Luna
Edited by Alyssa Greene
Theme music by Barrie Gledden, Kes Loy, and Richard Kimmings
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