When encouragement to “think positive” stops being comforting and starts invalidating feelings.
Maybe I’m a little easy to read. Maybe I feel too much sometimes. But I’d rather feel too much than not enough.
Minimizing or invalidating feelings happens far more often than we realize, to the point where it has become normalized and rarely recognized as a problem.
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