Safe with Your Feelings: Toxic Gratitude and Why We Don't Always Have to Feel Grateful

Sometimes feeling grateful is hard, and that’s okay.The holidays often ask us to position ourselves in feeling grateful, but what if we need room for grief, first? This week, we have a minisode to explore toxic gratitude and the ways we sometimes leave ourselves feeling worse when we try to feel better. Though gratitude is touted as a great tool for well-being, it sometimes ends up being a mask for deeper pain that deserves to be felt, acknowledged, and honored.Sometimes, we need to feel seen by being allowed to safely experience all of our emotions, not just the acceptable ones.In this episode, we’ll talk about:What toxic gratitude looks like and how we sometimes use it as spiritual and emotional bypassingHow trauma and relational woundings sometimes help us form an unhealthy relationship with gratitude How we sometimes need to feel our grief before we can feel our gratitudeWays to make room for all our emotions this holiday season, including a healthier practice of gratitude Enjoyed the episode? Subscribe, like, share, and stay tuned for more!Keep the conversation going on our Instagram:⁠ ⁠www.instagram.com/blackgirlseen⁠⁠Never miss an episode by subscribing to the Seen Sunday newsletter:⁠ ⁠https://blackgirlseen.myflodesk.com/seensunday⁠⁠Find resources and support:⁠ ⁠www.blackgirlseen.com/support⁠⁠Find suggested readings from the podcast here: ⁠https://bookshop.org/shop/blackgirlseen⁠Learn more on our website:⁠ ⁠www.blackgirlseen.com⁠