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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How’s your digestion? Any IBS symptoms? Sometimes our micro biome influences our emotions and mood and we don’t even recognize it. You could try eating more probiotic foods like kefir.
Exercise 1-2 times a week isn’t a very high “dose” for anxiety. You need to up that to 5 times a week, for at least 40 minutes of moderate (HR 130 or greater) intensity.
Is this a mood thing as well? You say you don’t oook forward to anything: could this be related to the seasons? Maybe get a SAD lamp.
, try some breathing exercises. Box breathing is pretty good. See if that helps.
Take magnesium and vitamin D. Most people are deficient and magnesium has definite anxiolytic effects .
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