Deepika Chopra

I always say real optimism doesn't deny the dark.

It just helps give us a way to see within it.

And that's really important.

And I think people, their ideas of this optimism and thinking about it, they think that only is grown from the moments where we're feeling the happiest or experiencing joy or bliss.

And really it's quite the opposite.

And I think that

When we persevere through a struggle and we've lived through right now, you have lived and gotten through all of your hardest days in X amount of decades of being here on this planet.

And that in itself is the fabric and makeup of what, how we increase and cultivate more optimism to help us with our journey and navigating through.

The other struggles that might come our way or what we can expect for

the hope that things will get better or go well.

And optimism is so rooted in that idea of anticipation and expectation.

And again, rooted in your personal historical resiliency story.

Absolutely.

And I always like to start the conversation of toxic positivity with

I truly believe that when we are acting in the realm of toxic positivity, whether it's speaking to ourselves or people around us, it usually most likely always comes from a good intention.

It's just the way in which we're doing it.

We start with this good intention.

It actually, at best,

doesn't work but at worst could be very detrimental to either ourselves or the other people around us and the reason i say that is for a couple different reasons but when someone comes to you and they are offering an openness of going through a struggle or being upset in some way experiencing a negative emotion it's human nature for us to sit across from them to either a want to fix it for them we don't want to see them in pain

that is something that's uncomfortable for us.