Describe them creatively, as if they were characters in a film you love watching. Give them a warmth, a small charm, a motive you can live with. The method asks you not to write about others except through their interaction with you — and this is the sanctioned way to do it: not as verdicts on who they truly are, but as the affectionate, imaginative portrait you would paint of a character you are fond of.
Do this every day, and the people around you slowly become a cast you enjoy rather than a source of suspicion or worry.