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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Congrats!
I moved from the hot Southwest desert to Chicago, and while I'm not a fan of cold, it wasn't as bad as I had imagined it to be. Especially, the city is quite efficient at clearing snow, and it's only moderately cold, being on a lake that doesn't freeze, so it's really just January and February that are cold, though the forests are mostly deciduous and ugly until April. Afterwards I spent two years near Lake Superior, which also wasn't as bad as expected, on account of getting higher quality winter clothing and multiple layers. Buy a high quality coat and gloves! The museums, public parks, Lakeside areas, zoos, restaurants, and forest preserves are lovely! There are already frogs out in March, which isn't bad. I would recommend oysters at the Press Room bar's happy hour, a March or April overnight outing to the cypress swamps of Souther Illinois, the Museum of Science and Industry, and the Miwaukee Natural History Museum, proceeded or followed by a bloody mary, beer, and pretzel from a German bar.
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