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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One thing I think would help you get better answers (not that I feel qualified to provide them necessarily) is if you explain why Christianity doesn't meet the needs you state. From my perspective, every one of the items you want can be fulfilled by basically any denomination of Christianity. Obviously you don't feel that the church is fulfilling those needs, or you wouldn't be looking elsewhere - but why not?
I think that this is important because if you don't identify where Christianity isn't working for you, nobody can really suggest an alternative with confidence that it would work better for you. Personally I'm Christian and I am ultimately going to be biased towards that, but I would at least try to give you some thoughts that don't center around the church if I knew what bothered you about it.
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