How to Put your JoyBoots On

Even before the term “toxic positivity” was coined, as I was going through treatment for breast cancer in 2008, I couldn’t stand the expectation that people with cancer should be cheerful warriors.

As a therapist and meditation teacher, I knew that repressing or disowning true feelings of shock, sadness, anger or fear does not keep these feelings away.

On the contrary, if you can’t name or express what you are feeling, and if you put on a happy face just to make others comfortable, the repression adds stress and inflammation to your body.

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