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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The key bit here is "interact with." It's possible for a high-trust community to dislike or distrust some distant authority figures who rarely meddle in their affairs, but if it's the actual day-to-day representatives of government within the community who aren't trusted, then your community is by definition low-trust. What has happened in America over the past several generations is that what were once two separate domains of "trusted figures of local government" and "suspicious characters far away in Washington who need to be watched" have become merged in practice and in people's minds into a single thing called "the government" and rather than spreading trust upwards to the federal level it has spread distrust downwards to the local level.
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