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.
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It's time to review our progress from October and make some plans for November.
Ever since I quit weed, I've felt like I have so much more time in the day, which is ironic because I'm working full time now and I was in college when I was using.
It's been over five months now since I've quit, and the cravings have come back recently. I was undeniably addicted and I never got help, but quitting was easy for me because I was so aware of how destructive it was for me. Now I'm considering whether I could use weed again in a healthier way, now that I'm in a happier place.
I wasn't planning on quitting forever, nor was I planning on coming back to weed. I just knew I had to stop, so I threw out my weed and pipe and grinder, and shut off my access to the drug. Now I'm able to reconsider what my relationship to weed should be.