"No one can make you feel dismissed without your consent." Part two of Dawn's toxic positivity series lands the how, and it starts with realizing every feeling you've had came from inside you, not from what someone else said.

In Daily Dose 9, Dawn shares the exact mental reframe that made her immune to toxic positivity: seeing someone's dismissive comment not as an attack, but as a gap in their empathy, a "blind spot" they simply haven't developed yet. Using a vivid hawk-vision metaphor and a real story about losing teeth to lifelong illness, Dawn shows how to take your power back from comments that used to sting. This one might change how you respond to everything.

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