Toxic Positivity

Khanyisa Mnyaka
4 min readJul 12, 2020

This popped in my head WHILE I was meditating — which is insane because I meditate to bring positivity and calmness in my life. But, here I am, listening to the soothing voice of Deepak Chopra and all I can think about is “toxic positivity”. After the meditation, I uncontrollably blurt out to my girlfriend; “I want to write about toxic positivity.” She takes a breath, locks eyes with me and replies “like saying positivity can be a bad thing?” I say “Yes”…

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Khanyisa Mnyaka

Khanyisa is an entrepreneur, teacher, traveler, writer and spiritual seeker.