Today we cover a topic we’ve been wanting to do forever: toxic positivity! Through listener comments and personal stories, we discuss the following:

• Not being allowed to be unhappy
• Why we can tend to be overly positive when supporting someone who is struggling
• Stonewalling ourselves to fit in with positivity culture
• External vs internal toxic positivity
• Not being able to trust people who are positive all the time
• Is it possible to choose our attitudes?
• Good ol’ minimizing
• Letting people see the natural state you live in
• Being grateful while suffering
• Is stark realism the response to toxic positivity?
• Toxic positivity as a response to starting recovery
• What happens when you stifle wounds in positivity instead of addressing them
• Motivational quotes in design

Other tangents include:

• Our voting stories
• Lauren making contraband cold brew in treatment and Christina’s stance on Starbucks as a former employee
• Weed as anxiety relief
• Contemplations on straight edge and recovery as a way of life vs a state of being

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Credits:

• Theme song is Insane OK by The Whines via Free Music Archive