The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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Same way you handle the oppressive summer heat, try to take the opportunity to do the nice things that make sense.
In summer it's things like barbecues and days in the park. When it's cold and dark that means staying in where it's warm, warm clothing, thick blankets, strong drinks, rich food and pretty lights, etc. No amount of bathing in simulated daylight is going to cheer you up if you're cold and eating an imported salad.
Yes! A thousand times this. Winter is my favourite time of the year because it’s associated with all of my favourite things: mulled wine and sticky toffee pudding and pubs with steamed-up windows. Hot baths and thick duvets. Bangers & mash and toad in the hole. Woolly gloves and scarves and roast potatoes.
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