Excerpt: You’re struggling because you can’t see your family this year for the holidays. Or, your job responsibilities have doubled, yet you haven’t been compensated for them. Maybe, your relationship is going through a rocky period. You want to vent to your friends, but you feel guilty about it. This is normal, explains psychologist Dr. […]
There’s a difference between having a generally optimistic point of view — and suffering from toxic positivity. This recently-trendy term refers to a person who lives by the idea that everyone should be happy, all the time, regardless of how stressed they or someone else may be about a current situation, explains psychologist Dr. Yvonne
EXCERPT: While a joyous, special moment for couples, a wedding is a lot of work. In addition to the nitty-gritty details of choosing vendors and making a budget, it is also an emotional experience, requiring compromise and reality-setting. Planning their big day together is the first of many events in a lifetime together that require
Excerpt: Yvonne Thomas, Ph.D., a Los-Angeles based psychologist whose specialties include relationships and self-esteem, seconds that it’s harmful because you’re subconsciously shutting down all of who you are and you simply don\’t have that full spectrum of emotions available to you. \”Toxic positivity can also put a real strain on relationships because if you tend
A lot of people struggle with subconsciously restricting themselves from the freedom to be who they really are. Sometimes it\’s hard to even recognize what\’s holding us back from being ourselves or that we\’re doing that at all. To help you take the first steps on the path to free yourself to be the real
