Toxic Positivity; What is it? With Kayla Juettner, Chronic Illness and Disability Advocate

Good vibes only and positivity is a concept where people believe in keeping only the positive and rejecting any negative thoughts and notions.

This approach also believes that you’re in control of your body and what happens to you and that you can simply remove yourself from negative situations. You’re to blame if you stay in the negative situation or thoughts, and you’re to blame for bringing up negativity. It is the stigma that bad feelings are well, bad!

Having unrealistic hopes is self-destructive, as you are putting mental and emotional energy into making it happen, and are likely to be disappointed when you fail to reach your goal.
Can you already see where this is going to fail?


In this week's podcast episode, Marni travelled virtually to New York to speak with Kayla Juettner. Chronic illness and disability advocate, and the woman behind the Instagram account @chronically.kayla.

Being born sick made Kayla create unique challenges and outlook on the world. Dealing with appointments, and hospitals rooms, and disability can be lonely; thus, @chronically.kayla was born. She wanted to create a space to foster conversations and community around living with chronic illness and disability.

Inspiration Porn peak ableism that can’t help but damage people living with skin conditions and disabilities. Many people perpetuate toxic positivity without realising what they are doing, many times as a form of ableism.

Join us in this episode as Kayla talks about toxic positivity, ableism and realistic optimism.

Learn more about Kayla Juettner here:
Instagram and Tiktok:  @chronically.kayla
Twitter: @chronic_kayla

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