/r/BodyAcceptance

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We are often bombarded with the "ideal body." We all have a lack of perfection and we all deserve to feel good about ourselves and comfortable in our skin, without the demands that we need to change it.


Welcome to r/BodyAcceptance!

A place to find acceptance of the body you are living in today.


We are often bombarded with the "ideal body." We all have a lack of perfection and we all deserve to feel good about ourselves and comfortable in our skin.


Lists of galleries, articles, books, videos, podcasts, etc..
Suggested social media accounts.
We recommend these subreddits.

Click here for the full list of rules.

We moderate by the spirit of the rules. Moderators have full discretion about how rules are applied.

The strictest rules:

  • Any abusive behavior will not be tolerated.

  • This is not a weight change support group. The reasons for this rule.

  • No selfies, body pictures, or videos.

  • No self-promotion posts or surveys.

  • Please click the report button for problem posts & comments.

  • We use Automoderator to reduce spam and trolling. If your post doesn't appear, message the mods for manual approval.


RULE ZERO: Due to repeated problems, those who post to subs that promote ideals counter to this sub may be banned without warning.


Regular Posts

(You may comment on these post at any time, not just on the day they are posted.)

Bi-Weekly Body Dissatisfaction Post: Mondays & Thursdays

Feel Good Friday: Fridays

Inspiration Sunday: Sundays


A Listening Ear

7 Cups offer a confidential listening ear to anyone who has issues with body acceptance, or any other issue. This notice of their services is here specifically at their request, so don't be shy. You can also find them at their subreddit, /r/7CupsofTea.

/r/BodyAcceptance

23 Subscribers

1

Asseptance and self hatred

Can you accept a part of yourself and at the same time hate it? If you fully accepted it, wouldn’t you stop hating it?

0 Comments
2024/04/16
08:02 UTC

2

Suffering

I work for an irrigation company. My job entails a lot of suffering: Big ass wrenches falling on my god damned knees, freezing my ass off in a windy field when it's 25 degrees out and my gloves are soaked, lift this 50 lb iron piece of shit great now lift that 45 lb fucker, smash my finger then recoil in pain and bump my funny bone, crack open an oil tube and take a nice little shit shower, blast rust oil and shit off pumps pipes and gear heads and get it all over your face, scoop half a mile of snow and wonder what the fuck you did to piss god off, ect.

I told my uncle that time used to fly by and I never knew why. But then I got this job (which I need to pay for college) and I realized that time is hidden away in the suffering, and the more you suffer the longer you live. You ever work for a half hour then look at the clock and it's only been 15 minutes?

My uncle looks at me and he says "So you want the suffering to end. Well what is suffering anyway? It's just mental resistance to pain. You just have to accept the pain, because you won't quit this job if you want to go to college and you know that there's more pain to come, so just accept it. Pain is just signal to your brain. When the brain detects pain it defaults to an overreaction, but you don't necessarily have to interpret your pain as the end of the world, get me? Just accept it if it comes and move on. I've stopped suffering a long time ago."

I've been chewing on his words for a while and I have noticed that when I take a consious effort to accept the work before me or accept the pain when I bump into something or accept the fact that that fucking clock hasn't moved an inch, I find that time begins to fly again. I think a little acceptance is in order, at least for the time being.

1 Comment
2024/02/01
01:40 UTC

7

Self acceptance > self improvement

Ironically self acceptance is the greatest self-improvement one could ever make!

I love this quote:

The way it is, is enough Who you are is enough The only thing you have to do is be. – Werner Erhard

0 Comments
2023/12/30
17:10 UTC

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Anybody in here?

I'm asking because there's nothing here except a pinned post.I guess acceptance is not a popular topic for many folks.It's almost like giving up.I think only if we treat it on a "nothing matters" mindset though.

Surrender and acceptance work for me when I set my mind on a future goal with no hard deadline. I've improved my writing and animation skill using it. Rejoicing in the rewards, accepting the obstacles that can't be overcome but also knowing when a path has reached a dead end.

Dead ends can be a huge blow that throws you to the ground. But if it didn't take you too long to hit it, it can be accepted and brushed off. And if it comes at the end of a journey that was long but cant go forward any further, then you'll know that you still learned a lot on the journey. So, its still acceptable.

And in both cases, you can head in a new direction. Never make it about the destination. Always it is the journey that affects your life longer.

5 Comments
2023/12/23
03:37 UTC

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