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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A few years ago I made it a habit to just call my parents on any long car drive or commute. The alternative was just mindlessly listening to the radio. We mostly share parts of our day. Having young kids helps the conversation along pretty often. As a parent its hard to stop talking about your kids, but most people don't really care to hear it. However, grandparents love hearing about their grandkids.
I've been thinking about doing this, but held off because I didn't want to bother anyone. But in retrospect and given your positive experiences, I think I should try.
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