{"id":10510,"date":"2022-04-08T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=10510"},"modified":"2022-03-31T22:31:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T03:31:22","slug":"what-is-toxic-positivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/what-is-toxic-positivity\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Toxic Positivity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how dire or difficult a situation is, people should maintain a positive mindset. It&#8217;s a &#8220;good vibes only&#8221; approach to life. And while there are benefits to being an optimist and engaging in positive thinking, toxic positivity instead rejects difficult emotions in favour of a cheerful, often falsely positive, facade.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 To learn more about toxic positivity and how to manage it, check out <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this article.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"1\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/what-is-toxic-positivity-5093958\">Why Toxic Positivity Can Be So Harmful<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how dire or difficult a situation is, people should maintain a positive mindset. It&#8217;s a &#8220;good vibes only&#8221; approach to life. And while there are benefits to being an optimist and engaging in positive thinking, toxic positivity instead rejects difficult emotions in favor of a cheerful, often falsely positive, facade.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how dire or difficult a situation is, people should maintain a positive mindset. It&#8217;s a &#8220;good vibes only&#8221; approach to life. And while there are benefits to being an optimist and engaging in positive thinking, toxic positivity instead rejects difficult emotions in favour of a cheerful, often falsely positive, facade.\u00a0 To learn more about toxic positivity and how to manage it, check out this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.verywellmind.com\/thmb\/ts-aarbD5n0ItJLRmzbYG_0sSEs=\/800x0\/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():format(webp)\/what-is-toxic-positivity-5093958-regular-FINAL-e5e98acbc4e941a887d79d42e718df06.png","fifu_image_alt":"What Is Toxic Positivity?","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[71],"class_list":{"0":"post-10510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-emotional_intelligence"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10511,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions\/10511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}