Things that sounds silly, but helped me with my body image, and yes several sounds weird and feels weird at first:
🌸Get a journal. Write 3-5 positive things down everyday, and yes some of them has to be related to how you look. If positive things is a bit too much, go for reminders like “I deserve to exist just the way I am”.
🌸Wear stuff that makes you happy. If it brings you joy, wear it. It doesn’t matter if someone else would go “Umm, that’s not really for your body type”. A big “shh” to them and a big cheer for you for not listening.
🌸Put on some good music and dance in your underwear. Especially if you’re standing in the bathroom and are tempted to say mean things to yourself. Dance instead.
🌸Avoid diet talk. Avoid negative body talk. No more bonding with other people about what you hate about your body. That is contagious. And please remember this: If you happen to find yourself in such coversation and cannot change the topic, and you the following days are feeling way worse about your body? All that came from that conversation. That doesn’t really change how you feel, but it explains where it came from and that might help.
🌸Follow a diverse set of people with different bodies on social media.
🌸Remember that there are people who profit of you hating how you look. They will straight up tell you something is wrong and then tell you how to fix it, just to make a profit.
🌸Take a photo on days where you feel good for whatever reason. You can look at those, if you have been having good days and then gotten into some bad ones.
that post about negotiation with hoas by threatening to set up a ham radio tower bc the fcc would back you up will not work at all even slightly but i will say that the blood feud between hoas and ham radio ppl is real & eternal. like if you want to get around hoa rules a ham radio person will probably have ideas
once again thinking about this guys “birdhouse” bc his hoa banned antennas but not “birdhouses”
One time I was helping a ham radio guy with his email and mentioned how I wanted to get into ham radio, but couldn’t because I lived in an apartment. That guy immediately rattled off like, five different ways I could set up a radio antenna inside my apartment, and seven different ways I could hide/disguise the antenna and still get a decent radio signal. Ham radio enthusiasts are a hybrid between boy scouts and wizards and I love them they play an important role in our ecosystem
