Good afternoon, YouTube
How are you? This is Ashley Nicole with The Practical Life, and we're back with another live
I hope you all are doing very well today. As you can tell by the title, we are going to get into a little bit of a discussion about being positive
You guys, see, I look a little rough today because today has been the day
Today has been a day. I don't know. I feel like I'm not feeling like myself today, but that's okay
We're going to move through it, but that is a perfect segue into what we're going to be talking about
Again, my name is Ashley Nicole. I'm a licensed mental health counselor, and this channel is all about mental health
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How is your Thursday going? Thursday is usually called Friday Eve because it's like you have so much to do during the week
and then it's like you're looking forward to the weekend. I've always read something
I don't know why I read it or heard somebody say something about, you know, you shouldn't be living for the weekend to get to the weekend
You know, you should make sure every day is, you know, joyful and that you're doing something that you enjoy doing every day
Don't get that until the weekend. That's like wasting time or something
Like don't be waiting for the weekend to tap on it. You know what I mean
So I hope you all are doing well. I hope you have had a great week thus far
Today we're going to be talking about toxic positivity and how it is bad for our mental health
I don't know that this is like a, you know, this is a term that has been going around
Remember I told you guys before that I use it as like a little button for trendy terms or things
Like this is becoming one of those, toxic positivity. Of course, we know it in, you know, the mental health community and things like that
but now a lot of people on social media are trying to say it and talk about it and things like that
So let's get into it. What is toxic positivity? And you guys know I have my notes
Don't play, right? Because I can't remember all this stuff. You know, I told y'all I'm a therapist that is eclectic or what we call an eclectic therapist, right
I don't go by certain modalities. I don't treat people by certain modalities or certain theories and ask specific questions based on these theories
Of course, I know that, but I don't go into treatment that way or, you know, when people come to a session
I don't automatically start off with specific questions based on their current experience, right
Because people are people and everybody's different, and you can't place someone in a box, right
It's not a one-size-fits-all. I mean, you can probably apply any situation to any scenario and things like that, but I'm not – I go by what, you know
based on my activation in the session, I'm going by what you're letting me know, and we just go from there
So I'm an eclectic therapist in that way. I take from this theory, that theory, you know, this modality, things like that, and apply it to the situation when needed
So I meet you where you are in my practice, right? So what is toxic positivity
It just means that you're just making any emotions that you have or that someone else has about a certain situation
Like, you are always striving to – not striving, but always expecting to be positive