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A Pear Is A Fruit, Not A Body Type

A Pear Is A Fruit, Not A Body Type

by Uncustomary | Nov 4, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

“I’M A FRUIT, NOT A BODY TYPE!!” – Pear
Body Positivity + Halloween Costumes

Body Positivity + Halloween Costumes

by Uncustomary | Oct 3, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

I see too many people scared to wear costumes because they don’t love their bodies and are worried what they’ll look like. Some people criticize others for using this holiday as a time to “dress slutty”, and I think we should probably start...
Shave Because You Want To, Not Because You Have To

Shave Because You Want To, Not Because You Have To

by Uncustomary | Sep 5, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

Empowerment is different things to different people. Sometimes someone not shaving their armpits is a conscious act of protesting the patriarchy. Sometimes it’s laziness. Sometimes it’s just a personal preference. Know there is nothing wrong with shaving...
All Bodies Are Beautiful

All Bodies Are Beautiful

by Uncustomary | Jul 27, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

That means yours, too! KittyPinkStars
Fat Flesh Doesn’t Equal Nudity

Fat Flesh Doesn’t Equal Nudity

by Uncustomary | Jun 6, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

Recently, I was asking for Instagram tips and someone said something which has been mentioned to me many times before, which is that they don’t like how much “nudity” I post on social media. I’ve been thinking about it, and here’s my...
Body Positivity Isn’t Just For Curvy White Women

Body Positivity Isn’t Just For Curvy White Women

by Uncustomary | Mar 2, 2017 | Body Positivity, Self-Love

Remember those Dove ads? They were a great start for body positivity. It showed women who weren’t Victoria’s Secret models standing, happily, in their underwear and posing for the camera. It was awesome, but as with any societal issue — it was just...
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- 🎰 gamify your goals - 🧮 try to beat your highes - 🎰 gamify your goals 
- 🧮 try to beat your highest score
- 🪎 rack up points for completing tasks
- 🪙 trade in points for rewards
- ⏳ track your time spent on an app like habitica 
- 🌳 use a reward sticker chart (forest app trees grow)
- 🕹️ act like your life is a video game
- ⏱️ set time limits
- 🎲 wheel or dice for tasks
- 🎯 set challenges
- 🤼‍♀️ compete against someone else
- ⚖️ batch something fun with something less fun
- 📲 play Pokémon go if you’re trying to get exercise or get out of the house
- 🧽 channel Pippi Longstocking when you’re doing chores 

#merrimentmaking
My wanting and my choosing are both tied into: ex My wanting and my choosing are both tied into:

expression, creativity, communication, ideas, play, words, messages + being heard.

It's not just what turns me on. Well, it is. But it's mostly what makes me feel ALIVE? Magnetically, acutely alive.

The answer, in part is: say it. name it. write it. communicate it.
After a statistically improbable amount of evidenc After a statistically improbable amount of evidence that being alive can be absolutely brutal... 🥴

🙏  I still want to see what happens next.

That's what I mean by strange hope. 🦆

🌻 First essay drops tomorrow!!
✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week! I bel ✍️ For a year, I'm writing an essay a week!

I believe the best art is detailed and honest. And that's what I can promise you this will be. 😅

🧮 The truly statistical improbable thing is that after an improbable amount of evidence that life can be absolutely fucking brutal... I still have hope. 🙏

If you're someone who also feels like their life has been a polycrisis, you're not alone. 😵‍💫

I want you to know that no matter what your life has been like, it doesn't have to end you. ☔

First essay drops on 📅 Thursday.
When I was writing my first book (over ten years a When I was writing my first book (over ten years ago!) 🖊️ I didn't think I had lived enough to write a full-on memoir.

Now, I feel differently. 😅

❣️ New essay drops every Thursday!
Leave a 🌈 if you would have honked! #uncustomaryh Leave a 🌈 if you would have honked!

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💌 love letters 🐶 squish face dogs 🎁 coworker celeb 💌 love letters 🐶 squish face dogs 🎁 coworker celebrations ☀️ positive bumper stickers 💚 mint green vans 🤾‍♀️ bouncy houses 💋 lipstick tissues 🐈‍⬛ kitty cuddles
😛🫈🧃 What's something silly you noticed this week? 😛🫈🧃 What's something silly you noticed this week? 👀⤵️
“People of our time are losing the power of celebr “People of our time are losing the power of celebration. 🎉  Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. 🙏 To be entertained is a passive state- it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.... 

Celebration is a confrontation, 💫 giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
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