Review: Life isn’t a Hallmark card and that’s okay, writes therapist Whitney Goodman.
, has set out to try to fix this — to remind us that it’s okay to be sad when you’re sad, angry when you’re angry and happy when you’re genuinely happy. And to also allow those around you to fully feel their rainbow of feelings, too.If you’re rolling your eyes, I get it. I avoid self-help books in general, especially when, like this one, they’re written by a therapist who made her name on Instagram.
Goodman does a good job of zooming out to bigger overarching truths, countering beliefs about how much control we actually have when it comes to living a 100 percent positive life, including: “The human brain’s main function is to look out for danger and keep us alive, not to make us happy” and “Emotions are an involuntary response to environmental stimuli and we don’t have full control over our emotional experience.
One of the most powerful chapters is “Discrimination With a Smile,” which should push reasonably open-minded readers to reflect on their own behavior and words. Goodman acknowledges that she is “not an anti-racism educator” but uses research and her own experiences with clients to explore how toxic positivity has diminished the real problems of marginalized groups.
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