Member-only story
How Does Non-Toxic Positivity Better Your Life Experience?
Non-toxic positivity is a creative force for self-care and improvement.
The word “positivity” might set your teeth on edge. That’s probably because you’ve been exposed to all the toxic positivity out there.
Toxic positivity is the idea that if you think positive — and ONLY positive — your life will be the best it can be. What’s more, toxic positivity rather blatantly disregards, ignores, or turns a blind eye to anything that’s not positive.
Positivity in this manner turns anything not positive into an enemy. Negative thoughts and feelings should be avoided or abandoned lest they harm you. But that’s unrealistic and unhealthy.
While taking a more positive approach to life, the Universe, and everything is good for your overall health, wellness, and wellbeing — avoiding, ignoring, and disregarding the negative creates unnecessary conflict. That’s because you can pretend all you want that bad things aren’t and don’t happen — but they DO. And you have zero control over them.
The key to non-toxic positivity is recognizing that it’s not simply thought or feeling. Positivity is an attitude, a choice that you make in any and all given situations or circumstances. And it’s not an either/or by any stretch of…
