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Two Things I Gained From Toxic Positivity
I how I evaluate the company I keep when I feel shitty more often than not.
There’s that whole “high vibe tribe” women have been championing since about 2015 — have you heard of it? It very nicely bled into American culture’s obsession with perfection and then nicely seeped into the other part of American culture I happen to appreciate called Mental Health Awareness.
They walked around with rainbows, sunshine, and an everything is awesome message to send to the world. If it was raining, they had an umbrella with a rainbow and a sun painted inside it.
The high vibe was about keeping your energetic vibration, your vibe, at a higher frequency to attract things at that frequency. What it lead to was denial, suppression, and shame. The same people who shopped at Lululemon, went to Spincycle, and drank Kale smoothies daily are the people who adopted this mindset in a toxic way. People who were of the toxic school of high vibe thought refused the people around them to discuss real-life issues because they were low frequency. They walked around with rainbows, sunshine, and an everything is awesome message to send to the world. If it was raining, they had an umbrella with a rainbow and a sun painted inside it.