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Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
This is not a place where all we do is talk about improving "productivity" (in a workplace context) and similar terms and harmful lifestyles like "grindset". Self-improvement here is intended to make you a generally better and happier person, as well as a better communist, and any other roles you may have in your life.
Rules and guidelines:
- Posts should be about self-improvement. This is obviously a wide category, and can range from advice, to finding resources, to self-posts about needing to improve in a certain area, or how you have improved, and many other things.
- Use content warnings when discussing difficult subjects.
- Do not make medical decisions solely because of a discussion you have had with any person here (e.g. whether to take or not take medications; diagnoses; etc.) as we do not vet people. All medical problems should be discussed with a real-life medical professional.
- Do not post harmful advice here. If this is seen, then please report it and we shall remove it. If you are unsure about whether it's precisely harmful advice or not but feel uneasy about it, please report it anyway.
- Do not insult other users and their lifestyles or their habits (unless they ask, I suppose). This is a place for self-improvement. Critique and discussion about a course of action is encouraged over shit-flinging. Don't talk down to people.
It was a week of recognizing all the ways I am self-inflicting misery on myself for no other reason than to maintain comfort, so I guess that realization is a win.
One example- I’m not sure if anyone else can relate, but I feel as though I’ve had multiple opportunities to “grow” thanks to the tools I have in this day and age (a few social media accounts with many followers who I do not interact with because I’m not comfortable with putting my self on the internet for op sec reasons or this very hexbear account I’ve had for nearly 5 years but haven’t initiated any actions that could build relationships). I’ve seen most of my irl friends find people online, whether that be friends made in discord or gaming groups to online dating apps, so maybe the future is finally here. Maybe part of my self-improvement is just a matter of a zillenial like me getting with the times and biting the bullet.