Hi I’m Rachel

40s USA 🇺🇸 She/her, Watercolor hobby artist and body positivity advocate. “my physical appearance is the least interesting thing about me.” If you want to look at my art go to the blog artsy-biggirl-myart.

[artsy-biggirl]

[crabussy]

small tips for Enjoying Being Alive from someone who went from wanting to die to genuinely loving life. these won't fix your life but they'll make it a lot easier to want to live day by day. I promise.

tell yourself things you do not believe. it feels stupid at first but I've done this for years and now I believe it when I say "I'm good at this" or "I love myself" or "I deserve good shit!"

make a note of every mundane good thing that happens to you. mental or literal notes! could be as little as "the sky is a nice shade of grey, it's calming" or "I ate a piece of fruit today, I'm looking after myself" or "I talked to a friend". again, feels stupid at first, but I genuinely believe this is part of why I have so many "good days". trick your brain into storing things in your long-term memory that you wouldn't otherwise remember.

diet deficiencies can make you properly miserable. your physical health impacts your mental health more than you'd think. get some vitamins, some omega-3s and so on. whether from food or supplements. they can make quite a difference! your brain is responsible for a LOT of the way you feel, and giving it the fatty acids it needs to function at its best can go a long way.

[crabussy]

I know these all sound like stupid junk people who have never wanted to die tell you. I know they sound like dumb "self-help" tips written by people who have suffered mild anxiety at worst.

they're coming from someone who had multiple daily panic attacks for half a decade. someone who genuinely felt like he did not deserve to live. someone who hated himself so much he convinced himself he was irredeemably evil. someone who loves being alive these days, even though it's difficult sometimes.

you truly don't have to follow any of this advice. but just read through. store it in the back of your mind. come back to it when you want. best of luck. [:

[nedzira]

These are genuinely great! If I can add a small comment it would be to try to change scenery every now and then, take a different route home and go for walks. And make appointments to meet your friends!

[crabussy]

ABSOLUTELY. anytime I feel myself descending into a slump where everything feels wrong and bad and gross and hard, I go on a Weird Walk. I choose a familiar destination (the dairy, the beach, a specific hill) and intentionally choose a route I've never tried before. it's crazy but it makes me feel better almost instantly, even if the new walk is worse than my usual route. your brain CRAVES new stimulation! you are a member of a species with one of the most active brains in the animal kingdom. please try not to live like a hamster.

[irishmansdaughter]

https://pin.it/madjhtGSG

[fullcravings]

Chocolate Glazed Donuts

[hceinart]

Self-portrait as Ophelia

[fleurdulys]

Unknown - David Hettinger

[griipysockgang-deactivated20241]

You’re either meowing with me or meowing against me

[herearesomedrawings]

Molten Abstraction, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 20”

2020

[joeinct]

Mississippi Highway patrolmen arresting Anthony Quin, 5, son of Mrs. Aylene Quin, during a voting rights protest in Jackson, Miss.; when Quinn refused to give up his small American flag, patrolman went berserk and wrenched it out of his hands, June 17, 1965, Jackson, Miss., Photo by Matt Herron, 1965

[chubbymuffinclub]

daniellelucker

Chillin’ you?🖤

[my-dailydreams]

[theroyalgardens]

Ian McEwan's enchanted garden in Cotswolds, England

[landsccape]

[aperiodofsoftness]

Katya Kalyska

[myrandomstuffpage]

[3liza]

do you live in seattle (the american city)?

yes

no

Remaining time: 2 days 11 minutes

please reblog to get this poll out of my bubble, i want reach

[3liza]

so ive been meaning to do this poll for a while because my hypothesis is that seattle is the most Tumblr city, likely in the entire world. tumblr has a huge american majority userbase obviously, but just for comparison going forward, only 0.22% of the american population lives in seattle. as of this reblog, this poll is showing 4% of respondents are seattleites. given, this isnt scientific at all, because my blog just has a lot of seattle connections and seattle followers, but it's still an impressive bias

[artsy-biggirl]

Yeah ok, but your pole is flawed. Might I suggest adding other cities in America and around the world with similar populations. Or maybe just add a bunch of cities and then you’ll need to adjust for population density later.

[nuckgirl16]