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15.02.2026 03:35 p (@p@pixelfed.de) Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**Nudist nan: ‘I grab my groceries in the buff’**
Shazz wouldn’t live life any other way
By Claudia Siron, February 12, 2026
Shazz Weaver, 62, from Seacombe Gardens, SA, has always preferred being in the nuddy
Joining the Australian Naturist Federation, she became the president in November 2024
Now a loved-up nudist nan, she’s on a mission to help everyone love the skin they’re in
Here she shares her story in her own words.
Picking tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce from the garden, I felt the afternoon breeze blow gently across my back.
What a gorgeous day, I grinned.
I was collecting vegies for my supper that evening – a juicy steak with a gorgeous garden salad.
‘I was in my birthday suit!’
But I wasn’t wearing my tracksuit or overalls…
I was in my birthday suit!
Aside from my gardening shoes and sun-cream, all my bits were exposed.
I’m grabbing my groceries in the nude, I chuckled.
I’ve always been the kind to bare my bottom. As a kid, I’d proudly run around the house in the nuddy.
But stacking on the kilos as a teen, I became self-conscious.
Still, that didn’t stop me from doing what made me feel most relaxed and comfortable.
As soon as I got home from school, I’d peel off my uniform and relish alone time in the buff in my bedroom.
Time passed by, and when I was 25 in October 1988, I gave birth to my boy, Michael. My then partner and I went on to have two more sons, Leigh in September 1991, and Nathan in April 1994.
Just as my parents had raised me, I let the kids roam around in the nude...
15.02.2026 02:53 p (@p@pixelfed.de) Some interesting thoughts and a good read I found on the net:
**I Hiked a Snowy Mountain Naked – Here’s What It Did to My Body Image**
Men’s Health writer Jamie Carson sheds his layers and takes on hiking, running and wild swimming in the Lake District to find out if baring all really can improve mental health and body positivity
By Jamie Carson, 13 February 2026
m standing on one of the highest peaks of Blencathra in the Lake District, with my best friend, and I’m wearing nothing but a pair of trail-running shoes, a cap and a wince. The temperature is a brisk 5°C, there’s snow on the ground and our penises have seen better days.
This is not for a bet. Nor is this a sordid stag-do event. We’re here because there’s a growing body of research pointing to the instant mental health benefits from losing your clothes in the great outdoors in front of others, with recent studies showing that it can improve body positivity.
For context, I underwent a personal training body transformation in 2018. Over the course of three months I adhered to a rigorous and, if I’m honest, unsustainable fitness and diet plan that saw me go from 18% body fat to 9%. For the first time in my life I had abs, was sleeping better and thinking clearer. But as the years went on, my job got busier, I became a father and life generally got more complicated. The six-day training schedule and crash-dieting rightly took a back seat, which in turn meant that my cherished six-pack slowly disappeared.
I’m not out of shape now, but a negative mindset remains from the days when my body was pushed to the limits in a very short time; a voice at the back of my head still whispers, ‘Should you really be eating that?’ when I indulge in anything sugary or loaded with carbs. I still superset everything at the gym to increase my heart rate and burn the most fat, even when fatigued. It’s hard to shake, and it got me wondering, how can we love our bodies as we get older when we are bombarded with the ideal physique on every street corner and with every social media swipe? How can we learn to love our imperfections, be content with our own bodies and stop obsessing over everyone else’s? The answer, strangely, could lie in baring all for the world to see.
The Naked Truth
Keon West is a social psychologist and professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, whose research explores identity and body image, with a particular focus on naturism and its psychological effects. He’s one of the leading academic voices in this misunderstood area, and his studies have provided some of the strongest evidence showing that naturist activities (from nude swimming to social nudity events) can significantly improve body image, morale and overall life satisfaction.
One of Dr West’s most revealing experiments, detailed in his 2021 paper ‘I Feel Better Naked: Communal Naked Activity Increases Body Appreciation By Reducing Social Physique Anxiety’, directly tested whether being naked with others led to improvements in body image...